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Thread: [Acro] Re: Mid-Air at Marana AZ -- any details?
Message: [Acro] Re: Mid-Air at Marana AZ -- any details?
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From: Flyinverted at aol.com
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:36:45 UTC
1 dead in midair collision involving Army's Golden Knights
From staff and wire reports
MARANA — An aircraft used by the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team
collided Friday with a civilian aircraft during a training mission near a
rural airport, a military official said. One unidentified person was killed
in the crash, about a half mile south of Moore and Sandario roads, according
to Katy Heiden of Northwest Fire/Rescue. A single-engine plane crashed into
the Santa Cruz River bed near Marana Regional Airpark at about 10 a.m. Friday
after the collision. The Army parachutists' plane made it safely back to the
airport. The Golden Knights are based out of Fort Bragg, N.C., but had been
conducting training Friday at the Marana airport, north of Tucson, said
Douglas Smith, a spokesman for the Army Recuriting Command. He said the team
does its training out of Arizona during the winter. The crash site was sealed
off by rescue officials at about noon. Friday’s collision was the second
accident around the Marana Airport involving a military aircraft in two
years. In April 2000, a Marine Osprey, a plane that can take off and land
like a helicopter and fly like an airplane, crashed there, killing all 19
Marines aboard
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