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One of our Arkansas pilots died this week He had signed up in August of 2001 but had not flown a mission for us yet. Details on the memorial forthcoming. Below is correspondence regarding the crash. Be careful out there. Beth, According to news reports this morning Dr. Jim Arnold and his wife were killed yesterday in the crash of their Cessna Conquest near Arkansas City, KS, leaving two boys ages 5 and 7. That will also effectively remove Stan Sence from the pilot list as he flew Dr. Arnold's other airplane. Don Beth -- Following is the FAA preliminary accident report on Dr. Arnold's crash. The report says he told air traffic control he had lost his autopilot. The loss of an autopilot alone surely would not have caused him a serious problem. It sounds to me like he experienced a failure of his attitude indicator and/or his directional gyro -- possibly his entire vacuum system, but that latter suspicion is just speculation on my part. The report suggests he had been assigned a block altitude between 27,000 and 28,000 feet on an IFR flight plan enroute to Rifle, Colorado from Springdale. The weather at the nearest reporting station at 1:45 p.m. CST indicated freezing rain was falling beneath a 1300-foot overcast. Radar contact was lost 70 nautical miles southeast of Wichita at 2:10 p.m. CST. Brian Bragg * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Regis#: 441AR Make/Model: C441 Description: 441 Conquest, Conquest 2 Date: 01/30/2002 Time: 2010 Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Damage: Destroyed LOCATION City: ARKANSAS CITY State: KS Country: US DESCRIPTION ACFT ADVISED OF LOSS OF AUTOPILOT IN IMC AND THE PILOT REQUESTED NO-GYRO VECTORS TO VMC, THE ACFT THEN DESCENDED RAPIDLY UNTIL RADAR/RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WERE LOST, THE ACFT CRASHED AND WAS DESTROYED, THE 2 POB SUFFERED FATAL INJURIES, OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNKNOWN, ARKANSAS CITY, KS. INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 2 # Crew: 1 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Pass: 1 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: # Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk: WEATHER: KWLD 1954Z AUTO 00000KT 4SM FZRA BR BKN010 OVC013 M01/M02 A3001 Departed: SPRINGDALE, AR Dep Date: 01/30/2002 Destination: RIFLE, CO Flt Plan: IFR Last Radio Cont: 70 SE ICT Last Clearance: ALT ASSIGN FL270B280
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