Image by miheco via FlickrOn Saturday, the Van Nuys resident found a Cessna 152 that crashed near Santiago Peak in Riverside County, and led rescuers to the area where they found the two survivors. The occupants of the plane suffered minor injuries but were not hospitalized.---
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Image via WikipediaUPLAND — The bodies of all three members of a volunteer Civil Air Patrol search team were found Sunday in the wreckage of their light plane in the San Gabriel Mountains, a tragic end to an attempt to find a plane and pilot missing for two weeks.---
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Image via WikipediaTEMECULA, CA – A Civil Air Patrol (CAP) aircraft and flight crew located the site this afternoon where a helicopter had crashed late Saturday afternoon in rugged terrain in northern San Diego County. The CAP was alerted by the United States Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC) at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. The AFRCC immediately notified the CAP of a possible aircraft crash in the Southern California area. The CAP dispatched an aircraft and aircrew Sunday afternoon to locate the source of a radio distress signal believed to be coming from an aircraft Emergency Locator Transmitter in the Ramona or Julian area of northern San Diego County, approximately 25 miles north of San Diego, according to Capt. Bob Keilholtz, a spokesman and Incident Commander with the CAP.--
Image via WikipediaAs the flight progressed westerly towards San Diego, the turbulence and visibilty became increasingly worse near the mountainous Laguna Range. Fighting turbulence and spatial disorientation, it was not long before the single-engine Piper departed controlled flight (possible in-flight breakup) and impacted the snow covered slopes of Cuyapaipe Mountain fifty miles east of it's destination. All three were killed.
The next day an air search was mounted for the missing aircraft which was mostly conducted in poor weather conditions. Tragedy struck twice while in the process of the search, two members of the local Civil Air Patrol were killed when their own plane collided with nearby Tecate Peak.--
Image by slworking2 via FlickrOn this date, the New York Times reported on a researcher's plan to use computers to fight wildfires and how the Civil Air Patrol was assisting in the project.The United States Forest Service is supplying data on soil moisture. The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian air-rescue arm of the Air Force, is sending images from its training flights. Ash from the fires in California is being analyzed in Colorado and will be used to help project Grand County’s expected ash composition from fire.
The researchers say that if ever there was a place to see what fire science can achieve before a fire actually erupts, Grand County is the candidate. The population and number of second homes are growing rapidly, and the forest that tucks in around the new homes is dying, attacked by beetles that are killing lodgepole pines in numbers that scientists say they have never seen.
Image via WikipediaOn this date, the federal government suspended nearly all civil aviation in the United States in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.The Civil Air Patrol Movement was sparked by the fear that General Aviation would be halted. The fear became reality when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when all air traffic, with the exception of airliners, was halted. The ban was lifted only two days later and General Aviation went back to its normal business.--
Image by listentoreason via FlickrCaptain Jess Ceniceros died when his Skylane crashed at 1743 hours near Markleeville, GA. (sic), during a SAR mission. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Nettell was also killed.---
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Image via WikipediaA bus filled with Southern California teen-agers on their way to an outing at Point Mugu overturned on a narrow, steep road near Camarillo on Saturday, injuring 17 youths and five adults, officials said.---
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Image by dvs via Flickr5/6/2009 - MERCED, Calif. (AFNS) -- An HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue crew from Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., found the wreckage an overdue aircraft in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range May 1.
The missing aircraft was the subject of the large-scale search by state officials and Civil Air Patrol members, but there were no survivors from the wreckage.
The family of the incident has been notified.
Four helicopters and 24 Airmen from the 58th and 66th Rescue squadrons deployed to assist in the search for a pilot and passenger who were aboard a motorized sailplane that disappeared from radar April 24 near Mammoth Lakes, Calif.
The couple was reported overdue when they failed to arrive in Modesto, Calif. on a flight from Tonopah, Nev. The Civil Air Patrol was activated by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and a full scale search was initiated April 25.
Over the next week, more than 200 Civil Air Patrol members from throughout California and Nevada flew more than 150 missions in support of the search. They were joined by helicopters from the California National Guard at Moffett Federal Airfield and personnel and aircraft from the 58th and 66th Rescue squadrons.
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Details and Probable Cause: Famed stunt pilot Frank Tallman was killed two days shy of his 59th birthday when his twin-engine Piper PA-23 Aztec (N5641Y) crashed near the top of the 3,500-foot Bell Ridge in the Santa Ana Mountains of rural Orange County during a rainstorm. The acclaimed flier had taken off from Santa Monica Municipal Airport and was ferrying the aircraft to Phoenix, Arizona.
The nearest weather station to the crash site was reporting a 600-foot overcast and heavy rain at the time of the accident. Tallman was flying VFR (visual flight rules) in what the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) deemed were IFR (instrument flight rules) conditions.
Orange County sheriff’s deputies located the wreckage of the plane near Santiago Peak in the Cleveland National Forest at about 7:00 a.m. the following morning, April 16. An extensive search had been initiated by deputies, Orange County fire personnel, the Civil Air Patrol and a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter after several ground stations in the region had picked up an emergency radio signal around midnight. Tallman, who was flying alone, was found dead in the cockpit, still secured by his seatbelt. The aircraft’s emergency locator transmitter was still sending out signals.
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Image by daspaddy via FlickrMarch 11: MU-2B-40 crashed into the Napa River, Calif., while on approach to Napa County Airport. The airplane was destroyed. The pilot/owner and one passenger were killed. Local Civil Air Patrol found the wreckage a week later (March 18).---
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Image by Thom Watson via FlickrHawthorne, Nev. (AP) -- A plane carrying 35 persons back to Southern California after a night of Nevada gambline vanished Tuesday in the mountainous desert of the California-Nevada border 200 miles north of Los Angeles. An all-day ground hunt in a drizzling overcast produced no clues, and only one search plane was able to get aloft. A rancher 60 miles south of Hawthorne reported he heard a low-flying plane at 4:20 a.m. The Civil Air Patrol sent two ground search teams into the area. "It sounds good. It is a good lead," said Col. JAMES HELM of the CAP Walker Lake Squadron.---
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