AP> Ward... I respect you a lot... but it's just not much of an echo if we
AP> are the only two in here.
 
How about this article I was greeted with this morning at my home page?
 
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Bodies Fall Out of Sky As Planes Collide
The Associated Press
 
Map locates the Corona Municipal airport in Calif.; 1c x 1 7/8 inches; 46.5
mm x 47.6 mm
 
Investigators picked through the gnarled wreckage Monday of two small
planes that collided about a mile from an airport, killing five and raining
debris and bodies down on car dealership parking lots.
 
The two small Cessnas crashed at 3:35 p.m. Sunday near the small Corona
Municipal Airport, just north of the Riverside Freeway, authorities said.
 
Two people were killed from each plane, and a fifth was killed inside a
Chevy dealership hit by wreckage, said Wayne Pollack of the National
Transportation Safety Board.
 
"There were bodies falling out of the sky," eyewitness Hector
Hernandez told KCBS-TV. "One of them crashed into the top of a Ford
Mustang, and another one fell not too far behind that one on the parking
lot."
 
NTSB investigators had yet to cut all the way through the wreckage of one
of the planes, and were unsure about the number of passengers.
 
"Until we open that aircraft up we cannot be certain how many people
were on board," Pollack said.
 
The smashed fuselage of one of the planes landed atop a parked car. A wing
from one of the planes sat in a parking lot. The debris was contained
mostly within a 300-yard radius, said Pollack, although some pieces were
found as far as 1,000 yards away.
 
"The smaller aircraft ... just disintegrated into pieces, maybe fifty
pieces coming down," eyewitness Jeff Hardin told KABC-TV. "The
other aircraft pretty much stayed intact and started spiraling down and
came down right behind the Nissan dealer."
 
One of the planes, a Cessna 172, is registered to William A. Reinke of La
Habra, Calif, according to aircraft databases. Reached at his home Sunday
night, Reinke declined to say who was flying his plane or who might have
been on board.
 
"I only know what happened off the television," he said.
 
Pollack said investigators had not yet obtained a flight plan.
 
The other plane, a smaller Cessna 150, is registered to Air Corona, Inc.,
based in Dover, Del.
 
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer did not
immediately know where either plane was headed or whether there were any
distress calls. The Corona airport does not have a staffed control tower,
he said.
 
Before Sunday, there had been five fatal plane crashes in Corona in the
past decade, killing 10 people, according to an NTSB database.
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Wonderful stuff to read first thing in the morning, no?
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

--- D'Bridge 2.95