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Re: N234Q



>Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:23:58
>To: reflector@awpi.com
>From: David Brown <velcty@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: N234Q
>
>At 01:56 PM 4/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>>From the FAA:
>>
>>
>>****  04/20/98   Preliminary Accident/Incident Data Record  RECORD   1 ****
>>A. Type: Accident  Mid Air:N  Missing:N   Entry date: 04/20/98
>>From: GREAT LAKES REGION OPERATIONS CENTER
>>
>>B. Reg.No.: 234Q        M/M: EXP            Desc: EXP/HMBLT:  VELOCITY
>>Activity: Unknown   Phase: Unknown   GA-A/C: General Aviation
>>Descr: SUSPECT ACFT (EXPERIMENTAL VELOCITY) WAS BEING TRACKED BY THE U.S.
>>       CUSTOMS SERVICE WHEN IT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES IN A
>>       SCHOOL PLAYGROUND, THE PILOT/SOLE OCCUPANT SUFFERED FATAL INJURIES,
>>       THE ACFT WAS DESTROYED, DRUGS WERE FOUND ON BOARD THE ACFT,
>>       DETROIT, MI.
>>
>
>Amazing!!!!
>
>The small article in our local paper said that this plane
>was being followed from the El Paso area. Didn't say what type
>of plane it was. Apparently the pilot realized he was being followed
>and was trying to make the Canadian border.
>
>Guess this kind of independently verifies a Velocity's range.
>
>The article said that many of the neighborhood residents hauled
>off with much of the "stash" while the injured pilot lay dying.
>
>Dave Brown - Dallas
>