Micron CEO dies in crash

[weilke]

Bloomberg's take...

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/20...mall-plane-accident-in-boise-idaho-at-51.html

Interesting stereotypes and the usual bad choices of words such as. "stunt" planes".

'Stunt plane' is simply an old fashioned term for aerobatic plane.

 

[woodstock]

He sounds like he was quite a guy.

 

[N801BH]

Tower recording... Thanks to ATC live............

fast forward to 16:00 first takeoff and abort at 16:55

Goes back to hangar to fix something...............

Fast forward to 24:10 for the last flight if his life.

The guy lived and breathed aviation and spoke his last words at 25:40.

Sad, Sad, Sad........

Godspeed to him....

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/kboi/KBOI-Feb-03-2012-1530Z.mp3


Ben.

 

[AdamZ]

Very interesting.....ATC tape is up at LiveATC:
http://www.liveatc.net/recordings.php

It is a compilation/edit, so not sure how much time elapsed between takeoff attempts, but he did indeed takeoff or attempt to takeoff and then abort to fix a problem and then tried again. Wondering if there was some flight control problem.

Ugh that is just horrible!