A pilot was communicating by radio together with her boyfrifinishbefore their planes collided within the air over Alaska ultimateweek, killing him.the 2 pimassestokoff from diffehirewestern Alaska villages on Friday but met up within the air in order to Bethel, Alaska, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Clint Johnsdirectly told the Anchorage Daily News Sunday.Kristen Sprague, 26, was flying a Cessna 207 operated by rural freight carrier Ryan Air, in line with Alaska State Troopers. She made an emergency landing with one airplane wing seriously damaged and wasn't hurt.the opposite plane, a Cessna 208 Caravan, crashed and burst into flames on Friday at about 1:30pm local time close tothe village of Nightmute, Alaska, about 640km west of Anchorage, Alaska, killing Scott Veal, 24, of Kenai, Alaska. Each wbecause the one person onboard.It wbecause the state's third midair crash since July. A federal accident investigator has said two earlier midair collisions were marked by the similar factor: aircraft that were trickyto identify amid mountainous terrain.In Friday's collision, the 2 pimasseswere travelling together to Bethel and were communicating on a prearranged radio frequency at the same time aswithin the air, Johnson said. it istoo early within the investigatidirectly to mention whether pilot error was an element within the crash, he added.Sprague had taken off from the Bering Sea village of Tununak, Alaska. Veal left from nearby ToksokBay, Alaska, in a plane operated by Grant Aviation, an air taxi and load carrier. Efforts by the Anchorage Daily News to talk with a Grant representative were unsuccessful.Sprague, of Idaho, told the investigator she was dating Veal, who reportedly was facing a divorce, Johnson said.Sprague remembered saying over the radio anythingto the effect that she couldn't see him."the following thing she knows is his airplane strikes her right wing, and almostsevers the most efficientwing," Johnson said.the largeger plane passed underneath the Cessna 207 and came out at the left side of it, Johnson said. Sprague saw it spiral down, hit the tundra, and burst into flames, Johnson said. She managed to land her plane on cushyrolling tundra, about two kilometres away.
Pilot killed after colliding with girlfriend's plane
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You are right that he or she are planning on using the scam or spam on us to feel sorry for the tragedy. The way he or she typed does not make any sense whatsoever. Nothing to do with deafness. He or she might have started doing this with all kind of websites to fool us. Sad, isn't it?
