AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958 - (Page 47) and white plane fly extremely low across the highway i n front of them. The plane was so dose to the ground, the lady said, "that it had to curve upwards in order to dear the telephone ¥wires. They watched it continue, following the contour of the hills, rising on the crests and disappearing into the valleys until it could no longer be seen. Half an hour before, a young pilot had taken off in a rented plane~also red and whib-from Fullerton. His deBtimtion was indefinite and depended, he said, on the weather at Palm Springs and Sun Diego. With bim was another pilot, a young woman. At 6 pm. the plane plowed into the San Jose lulls. No one actually saw the crash, but nothing in the charred remaim indicated any malfunctioning of the aircraft. Both occupants were dead see a small red Pittsburgh, the Cessna was on the left with the instructor in the lead, and tiara their position at 3,400 feet, there was a clear view of the next valley. At the top of tile range, they were about 200 feet or more from the overcast and about 500 above the mountains, "To my left, where my student was flying, the sun was shining, but there was a heavy snow squall to m y right. In order to avoid it, I made a left turn so that m y student would do a 180e.When I leveled back I could see him below me and in the clear sunshine. I must have pulled up a little while I looked to see if he was okay, and I found myselt in the overcast, By the time I got squared away wad had broken out again. I was across for a higher pilot rating,. . the Zweng Manuals Tragic Flying PILOT: Businessman, age 44 PLANE: Taylorcrrft BC 12-D PROFICIENCIES:Private Pilot the range." The instructor circled for a while. When the Cessna d$ not appear behind him, he landed on a small private strip and reported the separation The demolished Cessna, w t its dead ih pilot, was found on ¥thridge, imbedded nose first at a 90" angle. Bent prop blades indicated that the engine was all ratings each with text and latest typical exams! PRIVATE & COMMERCIAL PILOT RATINGS, Both ratings in on* timely book. With new croas-country wr!tl*n oxaminattonfr. $4.00 developing considerable power when it cradled. MEET THE MISSUS. Wbiaring down the highway below him, the private pilot ( age 87, 50 hour$) saw a bright yellow anto. By golly, his wife! Since he was returning home after pnrchasing a new Erwupe 415C, the pilot says he descended in order to fly cross the highway where his wife would see the new plane and know that he would soon be home. The low pass was over open country but the £'rcoup struck a guy-wire knocking off the nose wheel and strut. The pilot didn't realize what had happened until he landed at his home airport. Then-you guessed it-he found out. The aircraft alddded down the m w a y on its nose damaging the propeller and cowling under the e g n . nie The pilot was not injured. END It was only 6 o'clock, BO the dance hall by the side of the highway had not yet begun to jump. OverheadÑabov the crowded highway-two planes were flaring. One, an Aeronca ChamvWn,, was a about 1,000 t feet. The other, a Tayloreraft, was r o w and rollin' some few hundred feet below. Witnesses stated that the T-craft buzzed the highway, making one low pass under some power lines toward the southeast. It turned and flew under the wires to the northeast, "1 observed the T-craft flying at low altitude over the area," said the Aeronca'a pilot "He made ft dive at Bill% and Mary's Dance Ball, and on his pull-out hit wires that ran across Highway 15. He continued straight and level flight unta the cable tightened which caused the plane to ¥aw upward and nose to the left and crash I saw sparks from the ¥wire and realised that he had hit. . " The pilot was fatally injured in the 0 fNSTRUMM RATING. 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