KPWM crash 7/17

[Res2cuE]

News story below.    Pulled and condensed the feed audio.   Sounds like "52MY", a YAK52, is the subject aircraft. 


Small plane crashes at Portland International Jetport.     Ahttp://bit.ly/apCdXS


PORTLAND (Maine) – A small plane with two people aboard crashed at the Portland International Jetport, a spokeswoman for the city said.

An eyewitness said the plane crashed just after taking off and rescue workers told her that both people onboard were dead.

The plane crashed about 3:30 p.m. near the intersection of Foden Road and Western Avenue, which is just a short distance from the airport, said Nicole Clegg, Portland's spokeswoman.

Courtney Lowe, who works at the Dunkin' Donuts across the street from the Jetport, said the plane seemed to be at an unusally low altitude after taking off. She saw it bank to the left and went back inside the store, where a few seconds later people rushed in saying a plane had crashed.

Drivers are being urged to avoid Western Avenue, she said, and emergency vehicles are en route, as are officials from the Federal Aviation Authority,

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This is N52MY, as photographed at KPWM

[Hollis]

Based on the pilot's last transmission, no need to speculate on the cause of this tragedy.
As I hear it, he said '..smoke...it's real hot in here'.
 

[Res2cuE]

Video of the scene and eyewitness account: http://www.wgme.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wgme_vid_4336.shtml

[nfredrich]

R.I.P Mark Haskell "YO". My former NATCA rep and controller from PWM. You wife and kids are in my prayers. You came through for me when I lost a relative making all the arrangements for my leave. Thank you for all the OJTI time when my primary and secondary were unavailable. Thank you for arranging my "familiarization" to NAS Brunswick which just happened to fall on the day of the air show. Lastly, thank you for all the laughs, stories, and wicked belches down the drop tube.

My heart goes out to the entire staff at PWM. I know it's hard when you lose a pilot on your watch. I can't even imagine losing one of your own.

[ipilot]

Very sad indeed. Thanks for pulling the feed.

Chris Smith

[dave]

Very sorry to hear.  RIP.  I am pretty sure I've talked with this controller before.

[Steelrman]

Unfortunate that the clip starts with the pilots last transmisison. I would have been interested to hear more of what the problem was.  Prayers to the victims and their families.

[VictorK]

Very sad incident indeed, and the families are in my thoughts.

Unfortunate that the clip starts with the pilots last transmisison. I would have been interested to hear more of what the problem was.

It's in the archives. They'd been doing touch and goes, made a full stop about five minutes before the crash, and requested taxi to the runway 29 runup area. That's about it.