Jan Rasmussen
2006-12-20 20:34:02 UTC
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/938983
Light plane hits California sewage tank
Dec 20, 2006
Three Japanese men died when their small plane crashed into a tank full
of raw sewage in California, an employee at the flight school that operated
the aircraft said on Tuesday.
Shoki Haraguchi was a flight instructor and Yoshiyuki Kato and Yasushi Miyata
were students at Nice Air flight school in San Jose, California, Vicki Gonzales,
the school's office manager, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
The three died on Monday when their twin-engine Beechcraft Travel Air crashed
into a sewage tank at a wastewater treatment plant in the farm town of Gilroy,
according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the crash
with the National Transportation Safety Board.
Workers draining the tank, about 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.7 metres) deep,
saw the bodies of the three men in the wreckage of the submerged aeroplane,
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
Jan Rasmussen
Light plane hits California sewage tank
Dec 20, 2006
Three Japanese men died when their small plane crashed into a tank full
of raw sewage in California, an employee at the flight school that operated
the aircraft said on Tuesday.
Shoki Haraguchi was a flight instructor and Yoshiyuki Kato and Yasushi Miyata
were students at Nice Air flight school in San Jose, California, Vicki Gonzales,
the school's office manager, told Reuters in a telephone interview.
The three died on Monday when their twin-engine Beechcraft Travel Air crashed
into a sewage tank at a wastewater treatment plant in the farm town of Gilroy,
according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the crash
with the National Transportation Safety Board.
Workers draining the tank, about 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.7 metres) deep,
saw the bodies of the three men in the wreckage of the submerged aeroplane,
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
Jan Rasmussen