As morning broke here, the police and fire officials resumed the grisly task of gathering debris. The plane had to make an emergency landing after it struck an instructional landing system tower. George, Utah, was involved in an accident in December at the Salt Lake City International Airport. It was an unfortunate accident.'' Recent Emergency LandingĪccording to aviation officals, a commuter plane owned by SkyWest Western Express, based in St. 2, where the small plane was practicing take-offs and landings, said the flight instructor on the plane, Paul Lietz, crashed while piloting a Cherokee 180 in California on June 15, 1986. Ron Nelson, general manager of Debron Air, at Salt Lake City Airport No. Other information began to emerge locally today. The crash occurred 3,000 feet above the ground. On Thursday afternoon pilots in the area were given a special warning about ''occasional severe turbulence below 12,000 feet and some occasional wind shear,'' Mr. Lauber said investigators were also looking into whether strong winds might have played a role in the crash. Lauber said tonight that the Mooney was apparently flying in or around air space restricted for commercial traffic and had not received radio permission from the Salt Lake City International Air Traffic Control tower to do so, as required by Federal regulations. But Don Moffitt, an official at the airport, said today that the smaller plane, a single-engine Mooney, which had taken off from Salt Lake No. 1834 from Pocatello, Idaho, to Salt Lake International Airport, was under radar guidance from an air traffic controller at the time of the collision.
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