Airplanes was Re: [AT] an Iowa snowstorm

[Cecil E Monson]

	I just read the very short NTSB report on your accident and they
sure didn't waste a lot of time on it, that's for sure. At least they
don't say you hit a pole now but that you contacted a power line instead.
At least I think it was yours as they don't mention names - just that it
happened near Aplington and was an AT-301 Air Tractor.

	I'm fairly familiar with your area as I worked in Charles City
at the Oliver tractor plant and at the Jacob E Decker packing plant in
Mason City before I went in the service. We used to come down your way
hunting pheasants in the fall. I also used to go with a friend who liked
to fish for channel cats in the Rock river north east of you.

Cecil


> Your tax dollars at work.
> 
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ronald L. Cook" <rlcook at pionet.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Airplanes was Re: [AT] an Iowa snowstorm
> 
> 
> 
>>> A friend of mine and fellow crop duster visited with the FAA about my
>>> accident.  They said it was torn up so bad that no one could say what
>>> made it crash.  It was obvious that the aircraft had hit a pole and been
>>> knocked down.  So much chemical smell around that they didn't want to
>>> get close to it. (I was carrying 260 gal load at the time of the crash)


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what you said.

Cecil E Monson
Lucille Hand-Monson
Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole

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