From FAA Accident reports 8/2/06
Doug
Report created 8/2/2006 Record 1 **
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 848LC Make/Model: AL11 Description: AMERICAN LEGEND AL11
Date: 07/30/2006 Time: 1650
Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Unknown
LOCATION
City: CHICAGO State: IL Country: US
DESCRIPTION
ACFT DITCHED INTO LAKE MICHIGAN UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, THERE WERE TWO
PERSONS ON BOARD, ONE IS MISSING AND PRESUMED FATAL, ONE WAS RESCUED WITH
UNKNOWN INJURIES, 3 MILES OFF THE COAST NEAR CHICAGO, IL
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 1
# Crew: 2 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: 1
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
WEATHER: NOT REPORTED
OTHER DATA
Departed: OSHKOSH, WI Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: Flt Plan: Wx Briefing:
Last Radio Cont:
Last Clearance:
FAA FSDO: WEST CHICAGO, IL (GL03) Entry date: 08/02/2006
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N848LC is Assigned
Aircraft Description
Serial Number AL-1047 Type Registration Corporation
Manufacturer Name AMERICAN LEGEND AIRCRAFT CO Certificate Issue Date 07/24/2006
Model AL11 Status Valid
Type Aircraft Fixed Wing Single-Engine Type Engine 4 Cycle
Pending Number Change None Dealer No
Date Change Authorized None Mode S Code 52717216
MFR Year None Fractional Owner NO
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Registered Owner
Name AMERICAN LEGEND AIRCRAFT CO
Street 1810 PIPER LN
City SULPHUR SPRINGS State TEXAS Zip Code 75482-5437
County HOPKINS
Country UNITED STATES
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Airworthiness
None
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Other Owner Names
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Temporary Certificate
Certificate Number T065545 Issue Date 07/24/2006 Expiration Date 8/23/06
Legend Cub
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Legend Cub
Keep the pointed end forward--
The dirty side down.....
And the blue skies on top....
The dirty side down.....
And the blue skies on top....
Sounds like the engine stopped in flight and they ditched. Pilot still missing.
Sorry to hear this!
More here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/cust ... eaking-hed
Sorry to hear this!
More here:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/cust ... eaking-hed
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It's a really bad deal, I'm sorry for the family.
They're thinking it's a fuel starvation situation. The cub was heading to Gary, IN for a fuel stop, and winds down low were strong and from the south. Lost the engine, did a good job ditching, but the pilot was hurt pretty bad. After it hit the water, the passenger was digging around in the cabin, looking for floattation, and when he looked up the pilot was gone. As they were going down, Approach was contacted, so the Coast Guard was on site in 30 minutes.
That water had to be cold.
nkh
They're thinking it's a fuel starvation situation. The cub was heading to Gary, IN for a fuel stop, and winds down low were strong and from the south. Lost the engine, did a good job ditching, but the pilot was hurt pretty bad. After it hit the water, the passenger was digging around in the cabin, looking for floattation, and when he looked up the pilot was gone. As they were going down, Approach was contacted, so the Coast Guard was on site in 30 minutes.
That water had to be cold.
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By Jeremy Gorner and Jason Meisner
Tribune staff reporters
Published August 3, 2006, 8:06 AM CDT
Authorities this morning identified the pilot who apparently drowned after his single-engine plane crash-landed into Lake Michigan last weekend, four miles off the city's shoreline on the South Side.
The body of John Gonas, 57, was pulled from the lake around 5 p.m. Wednesday about a mile east of Jackson Harbor. The plane was also found at the lake bottom about 50 feet from Gonas' body, authorities said.
Gonas, of Akron, Ohio, was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday at the Cook County medical examiner's office, a spokesman said. An autopsy was to be conducted this morning.
Chicago Police Marine Unit divers located the wreckage with the aid of the O'Hare International Airport tower's record of the plane's flight path, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said. The divers used a scanning sonar device to pinpoint the wreckage.
"(The divers) got final readings, plotted the courses and conducted multiple searches with the sonar over the projected course," Bond said.
Bond said the plane was not removed from the water on Wednesday because of thunderstorms that were passing through the area. The plane will likely be removed sometime today.
The plane, an American Legend Cub, crash-landed into the lake Sunday afternoon en route to Gary Chicago International Airport from an air show in Oshkosh, Wis.
The plane's only passenger, a 49-year-old Texas man, and the pilot struggled together to swim ashore, officials have said. But only the passenger was rescued, scooped up by a Coast Guard Auxiliary boat about 5:10 p.m. that day, a half-hour after the plane went down.
From there, U.S. Coast Guard volunteers helped transport the passenger to shore. He was later treated and released from the University of Chicago Hospitals.
Federal Aviation Administration records show Gonas has a valid private pilot's license issued out of the agency's Great Lakes Regional Office.
Also Wednesday, police who were transporting Gonas' body back to shore found a woman's body floating near the Adler Planetarium, east of downtown Chicago.
The woman was pulled from the water and taken to the medical examiner's office, where she was pronounced dead at 9:05 p.m. Wednesday. An autopsy was scheduled for today.
A medical examiner's office spokesman said the woman's body was badly decomposed, and she remained unidentified this morning.
nkh
By Jeremy Gorner and Jason Meisner
Tribune staff reporters
Published August 3, 2006, 8:06 AM CDT
Authorities this morning identified the pilot who apparently drowned after his single-engine plane crash-landed into Lake Michigan last weekend, four miles off the city's shoreline on the South Side.
The body of John Gonas, 57, was pulled from the lake around 5 p.m. Wednesday about a mile east of Jackson Harbor. The plane was also found at the lake bottom about 50 feet from Gonas' body, authorities said.
Gonas, of Akron, Ohio, was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday at the Cook County medical examiner's office, a spokesman said. An autopsy was to be conducted this morning.
Chicago Police Marine Unit divers located the wreckage with the aid of the O'Hare International Airport tower's record of the plane's flight path, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said. The divers used a scanning sonar device to pinpoint the wreckage.
"(The divers) got final readings, plotted the courses and conducted multiple searches with the sonar over the projected course," Bond said.
Bond said the plane was not removed from the water on Wednesday because of thunderstorms that were passing through the area. The plane will likely be removed sometime today.
The plane, an American Legend Cub, crash-landed into the lake Sunday afternoon en route to Gary Chicago International Airport from an air show in Oshkosh, Wis.
The plane's only passenger, a 49-year-old Texas man, and the pilot struggled together to swim ashore, officials have said. But only the passenger was rescued, scooped up by a Coast Guard Auxiliary boat about 5:10 p.m. that day, a half-hour after the plane went down.
From there, U.S. Coast Guard volunteers helped transport the passenger to shore. He was later treated and released from the University of Chicago Hospitals.
Federal Aviation Administration records show Gonas has a valid private pilot's license issued out of the agency's Great Lakes Regional Office.
Also Wednesday, police who were transporting Gonas' body back to shore found a woman's body floating near the Adler Planetarium, east of downtown Chicago.
The woman was pulled from the water and taken to the medical examiner's office, where she was pronounced dead at 9:05 p.m. Wednesday. An autopsy was scheduled for today.
A medical examiner's office spokesman said the woman's body was badly decomposed, and she remained unidentified this morning.
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