Florida has more small plane troubles...2 killed in Nchols crash

Our area is host to the Sun and Fun Fly In yearly, and will be hosting a new aerial aerobatics show soon. There appear to be no restrictions about flying around neighborhood areas, and small plane crashes are happening more and more.

This crash was at least in a rural setting, but the two occupants were killed. Then I heard of the one in Orlando.



SCOTT WHEELER/The Ledger
Investigators document the scene of a plane crash Monday near the Nichols community, southwest of Mulberry. The crash of the twin-engine 1967 Piper Comanche killed Robert Cunningham, 51, of Plant City, and Armando "Lincoln" Motta, 61, from Kissimmee, shortly after the men took off from Lakeland Linder Regional Airport about 8:15 a.m.



And there was another recently.



Frank Marsico of Port Orange was still listed Monday as the owner on the FAA Web site. Marsico said he sold the plane about two months ago but did not know the name of the buyer and said the aircraft was due for an overhaul of its engines and annual maintenance.

But I am lazy and fuzzy minded today. Good one. }(

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to fly ... not to land???

and flying all over the city. There were none when I called once. They said they took care of everything at the Sun and Fun group. Don't argue with me, just talk to them.

What is my point? Hell, I don't know. A lot of small plane crashes?

ground operations on municipally owned airports.) I usually manage to get to Sun n Fun but couldn't make it this year.
It's illegal to fly lower than 1000 feet over populated areas unless it's a departure or landing. City hall has no say in it, the FAA does.

There are not really a lot of small plane crashes...the reason it -seems- that way is that virtually every one makes the news.

I posted my opinion, I posted an article and a picture of yet another small plane crash.

I am careful here to post stuff that is true, so I would like to know what you meant.

During Sun and Fun Fly In we are under a constant drone for miles of these planes, and also jets that come. It's unbearable.

If you see something wrong, be specific.

airplanes which is your privilege.

I think people have rights to not have a whole week of unbearable noise just so they can have fun. Let them fly over rural areas not our neighborhoods.

I never cease to be amazed here at DU. I have tried not to post controversial stuff since folks are so wound up here right now.

But I post about a plane crash and get accused of not liking planes.

Ok....

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You like them as long as they stay away from YOUR neighborhood. Apparently you live under the airport's traffic pattern. One question: was the airport there when you moved near it?

I have had intelligent conversations with you before, but I am sure as hell giving up on this one.

You don't even make sense. You appear to be trying to bait me, so I am backing off.

I asked you a simple question, was the airport there before you? Why is it so difficult to answer?

Wow, I thought I would not be controversial posting this...but looks like I pushed buttons anyway.

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You've lived near it since before then? Look, I'm not 'acting' any way, I'm just wondering why you went on such a tear about airplane noise. Let's just drop it. Jeezus.

Sorry about that, but it has. I live in a home my family lived in. We live in one of the historical neighborhoods, and yes I think the noise is very excessive.

And thanks for the insinuation I am lying. Hell, I am going to post about politics and jump in with both feet.

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I know people who are pilots and have flown in their small planes when they were trying to get their hours in. I've got no problems with small planes or pilots.

I do, however, have a problem with those who think it's OK to do stunts approximately 50 feet above my house. I live adjacent to a fly-in community. I knew when I bought the house that I was near an airport. I had no clue that those flying out of this airport thought it was perfectly fine to take flight at about 6:00 AM on weekends with their loud-ass engines. I had no idea that the "antiques" they like to fly need carbon dating they're so old. Heck, I had no idea that the pilots flying them also needed carbon dating (I've seen some of them at the grocery store -- some of them can barely shuffle or see, they're so decrepit).

Every time a small plane crashes in Florida, I'm sad, but I'm also thankful that my family and I have lived to see another day and don't have a plane on top of us. Although the majority of plane crashes are not due to unsafe practices or negligence, I completely understand your frustration when deliberate stunt flying or unnecessary maneuvers are intentionally done over residential areas.

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Also there are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots.

We attended the closing dinner with him....but I reserve the right to think humans have more rights than planes. And the crash in Nichols makes 4 in Central Florida since January.

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I post about small airplane accidents and get accused of hating airplanes and wanting to over ride pilots' rights....I think that is what it is.

Wow. I might as well post about the DLC or maybe Howard Dean....if I am going to be chastised for posting about small plane tragedies...I might as post about my favorites and raise real hell.

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This makes four or five crashes of small planes in Central Florida since January, I believe.

2nd Plane Crash In As Many Days Near Orlando



Here is more about yesterday's Orlando crash.

5 Die When Small Plane Crashes Into 2 Houses





JOHN RAOUX/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Officials sift through the wreckage at the scene of a plane crash where five people were killed in Sanford on Tuesday morning as the pilot of the plane tried to reach Orlando Sanford International Airport.

Also I notice in the OP I forgot to put a link to the article.

http://www.theledger.com/article/20070709/BREAKING/70709003/0/FRONTPAGE

http://www.airshowbuzz.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=607

"Experimental plane crash kills two
Lakeland, Florida — Authorities have identified two people killed Monday in the crash of a small plane near the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport.

Dead are the pilot, Terrence Albert Sack, 61, of Dublin Ohio, and a passenger Roger L. Caldwell, 56, of Blacklick, Ohio. Polk sheriff's deputies said they were reported overdue to arrive at Lakeland Linder Airport by their wives.

The men were flying in what is believed to be Wheeler Experimental Single Engine aircraft when it crashed into several pine trees just off the roadway at 4341 Waring Road, Lakeland, deputies said.

The aircraft was approaching runway 27 from the north when witnesses say the plane appeared to overcorrect and speed downward, crashing into the ground and bursting into flames."