REFLECTOR: Velocity down in North Carolina

[Alex Balic]

They changed the story to say that Kirk has passed away from his injuries..

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Brett Ferrell
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 5:11 PM
To: reflector
Subject: REFLECTOR: Velocity down in North Carolina

 

Just saw this, hopefully Kirk is OK?

 

http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2011/sep/25/8/plane-crashes-near-sanford-1-hurt-a
r-1429990/

 

 

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LEE COUNTY, N.C. -- 

Police say one man was hurt when a small plane crashed near the Raleigh
Executive
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/position/tags/raleigh-executive/>
Jetport outside Sanford Sunday
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/sanford-sunday/>  afternoon.

The victim has not been identified yet, but the Federal Aviation
Administration
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/organization/tags/federal-aviation-admin
istration/>  late Sunday afternoon said the plane was registered to Kirk
Aragon <http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/kirk-aragon/>  of
Apex.

Police say the crash was reported about 12:45 p.m. when a neighbor called
911 to say she heard a plane flying low overheard, heard a crash and saw
smoke.

The plane crashed into woods at the end of Breezewood Road about a half mile
from the jetport.

Witness Leola Carter
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/leola-carter/>  said, "I
heard the plane coming over and then I heard a loud pop."

Carter <http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/leola-carter/>  said
she grabbed her cell phone
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/technology/tags/cellular-telephone/>
and hurried to the site of the crash where she found the pilot
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/position/tags/pilot/>  was already out
of the plane. "I told him
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/kirk-aragon/>  I'm on my way
just hang in there," she said.  "He was thanking me and saying he wanted to
live. I'm hoping he will be all right," she continued, "and I think he will
because his voice was strong."

The manager of the jetport
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/position/tags/manager-of-the-jetport/> ,
Dan Swanson <http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/dan-swanson/> ,
told NBC-17 News that the plane was a home-built experimental aircraft
called a Velocity. The plane was based at the jetport.

"There were no real signs of distress, there were no May day
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/holiday/tags/may-day/>  calls that we
heard," Swanson
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/dan-swanson/>  said.

Swanson <http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/dan-swanson/>  said
the plane was built from a kit.

Chief <http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/position/tags/chief/>  Larry Kelly
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/person/tags/larry-kelly/>  of the Deep
River Fire Department
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/organization/tags/deep-river-fire-depart
ment/>  said the pilot had second and third degree burns.   

The pilot was flown by helicopter to the North Carolina Jacyee Burn Center
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/organization/tags/north-carolina-jacyee-
burn-center/>  in Chapel Hill
<http://www2.nbc17.com/topics/types/facility/tags/chapel-hill/> .

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