---------------------------------------------------------- Rocket-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 07/08/04: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 04:54 AM - Re: F1 Rocket wanted (N414C) 2. 10:12 AM - Re: Info? Harmon Rocket Crash (nico css) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 04:54:46 AM PST US From: N414C Subject: Re: Rocket-List: F1 Rocket wanted --> Rocket-List message posted by: N414C Thanks, Milt ----- Original Message ----- From: CalBru@aol.com To: rocket-list@matronics.com Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:37 PM Subject: Re: Rocket-List: F1 Rocket wanted --> Rocket-List message posted by: CalBru@aol.com The TeamRocket website lists a vendor for insurance who is familiar with Rockets. Cal Brubaker 116 ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 10:12:17 AM PST US From: "nico css" Subject: Re: Rocket-List: Info? Harmon Rocket Crash --> Rocket-List message posted by: "nico css" It was on the local news. We didn't know that it was a Rocket. The reports merely suggested that it was an experimental plane. Sorry about the loss. Nico ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wernerworld" Subject: Rocket-List: Info? Harmon Rocket Crash > --> Rocket-List message posted by: "Wernerworld" > > Anyone know anything about this? > > > > Small Plane Crashes Into Seal Beach Home > > By Kevin Pang > > Times Staff Writer > > > > 10:06 AM PDT, July 7, 2004 > > > > A small airplane crashed into a house in the Orange County community of > > Seal Beach this morning, killing the pilot and injuring at least two > people > > on the ground, authorities said. > > > > About an hour after the 8:12 a.m. crash, firefighters could be seen > > chopping into the roof of one large house, throwing off branches, and > > working at a second house in a small cul de sac near the interchange of > the > > 605 and 405 freeways, not far from the airport in Long Beach. > > > > Both houses were damaged. On one house, the windows were blown out and one > > side of the house was charred. Gray smoke, but not fire, was visible. > > > > Sharon Loe, 67, was reading a newspaper in her family room when the plane > > hit the house she had lived in for nearly 40 years, said her son David. > She > > was hit by glass and her hair was burned, he said. > > > > "It's very unbelievable she walked away," David said. > > > > She suffered minor burns, Seal Beach police Detective Stan Berry said. An > > elderly woman in a nearby house had a heart attack, he said. > > > > "I thought it was going to land on top of our house. I've never heard > > anything like it," said Trudy Olsen, a 40-year resident of the > > neighborhood, who said the crash was loud enough to hurt her ears. > > > > The plane was a Harmon Rocket, a small single-engine plane typically built > > by flying enthusiasts from a kit, said Donn Walker, a spokesman for the > > Federal Aviation Administration. > > > > The plane had filed a flight plan and was traveling from Torrance to > Chino. > > Air traffic controllers lost radar and radio contact with it about the > time > > the crash was reported, Walker said. The plane was registered to a > licensed > > pilot from Rancho Palos Verdes, he said, but he added that he did not know > > if that was the person flying the plane or if the pilot was alone. > > > > He said the pilot was killed. > > > > Seal Beach is a city of 24,150 people on the coast of northwestern Orange > > County, south of Los Angeles > > > > > >