Three people died yesterday in the Colorado crash of a Neptune firebomber doing the most dangerous aerial task in the US.:(
By: trumper - 28th April 2009 at 17:20
🙁 Looking at the photos ,they were soooo close to clearing that hill.What a waste of lives.:(
Condolences to the families
By: Newforest - 28th April 2009 at 16:07
Weather at the crash site is hampering the investigation. This is the second crash that Neptune Aviation have had.
http://missoulian.com/articles/2009/04/27/news/local/news02.txt
By: Bager1968 - 27th April 2009 at 00:22
A tragedy, and a set of brave men.
Condolences to their families and associates.
2 corrections:
1. the crash was in western Utah, not in Colorado. The Co connection is that one of the crew was from a suburb of Denver.
2. They were not engaged in firefighting, but were on a transfer flight from Montana to New Mexico.
TOOELE, Utah — A plane crash on Saturday morning in western Utah killed all three on board, including a Littleton man.
Tom Risk, 66, of Littleton, was piloting the P2V Neptune aircraft when it went down near Stockton Pass, said a representative of the Tooele County Sheriff’s Office.
The firefighting plane was flying from Missoula, Mont., to Alamogordo, N.M., when it went down in the Oquirrh Mountains, located to the southwest of Salt Lake City, deputies said.
In fog, insufficient altitude.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hIwdFlR12aHzHCcZuGgMKRl3eaLwD97PST280
just to the east of Stockton, Utah:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Stockton,+Utah&sll=40.557635,-112.226715&sspn=0.709484,1.220856&ie=UTF8&ll=40.453217,-111.994629&spn=1.421172,2.441711&t=p&z=9
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April 26, 2009 at 3:40 pm