Rhino
12-20-2006, 11:01 AM
Bodies Found In Plane Crash At Gilroy Sewage Pond
(CBS 5 / AP / BCN) GILROY A salvage company on Wednesday is scheduled to use a crane and helicopter in an attempt to remove a small airplane that crashed and sank into a raw sewage pond at a Gilroy wastewater treatment plant -- with the aircraft's three occupants still entombed inside.
The bodies of three Japanese nationals were discovered Tuesday aboard the plane that had crashed late Monday afternoon. Authorities said the 1964 twin-engine Beechcraft Travelair had left a flight school in San Jose carrying two students, Yoshiyuki Kato and Yasushi Miyata, and their flight instructor, Shoki Haraguchi.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said workers at the South County Regional Wastewater Authority's treatment plant drained the sludge out of a tank holding the wastewater pond on Tuesday, which exposed the three bodies inside the aircraft and allowed authorities to see the plane's registration number.
The tank was 20 feet deep and 25 feet in diameter.
Rescue crews also found a flight log and a Japanese passport near the scene of the crash, said Larri Frelow, an operations officer with the FAA.
The San Jose flight school, Nice Air, reported that the aircraft left Reid-Hillview Airport at 1 p.m. Monday and was due back at 5 p.m. but never arrived......http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_352211234.html
(CBS 5 / AP / BCN) GILROY A salvage company on Wednesday is scheduled to use a crane and helicopter in an attempt to remove a small airplane that crashed and sank into a raw sewage pond at a Gilroy wastewater treatment plant -- with the aircraft's three occupants still entombed inside.
The bodies of three Japanese nationals were discovered Tuesday aboard the plane that had crashed late Monday afternoon. Authorities said the 1964 twin-engine Beechcraft Travelair had left a flight school in San Jose carrying two students, Yoshiyuki Kato and Yasushi Miyata, and their flight instructor, Shoki Haraguchi.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said workers at the South County Regional Wastewater Authority's treatment plant drained the sludge out of a tank holding the wastewater pond on Tuesday, which exposed the three bodies inside the aircraft and allowed authorities to see the plane's registration number.
The tank was 20 feet deep and 25 feet in diameter.
Rescue crews also found a flight log and a Japanese passport near the scene of the crash, said Larri Frelow, an operations officer with the FAA.
The San Jose flight school, Nice Air, reported that the aircraft left Reid-Hillview Airport at 1 p.m. Monday and was due back at 5 p.m. but never arrived......http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_352211234.html