Mon, Oct 22, 2007
Seneca Recently Repaired In Landing Gear Collapse
The pilot who flew his Piper Seneca into a British Columbia
apartment building Friday had two previous accidents in the last
decade, according to a report by CTV News in Canada.
The Canadian Transportation Safety Board says the plane flown by
Peter Garrison, 82, was recently repaired following a gear collapse
on landing at Pitt Meadows in February 2006.
CTV News reports Garrison was involved in another accident in
1998 in Bellingham, WA, just south of British Columbia.
As ANN reported, Garrison was
killed when his plane hit the ninth floor of the 15-story building
on Friday with such force that it stopped just short of the
elevator shaft in the condo building in Richmond, B.C. Two people
in the building were injured.
Garrison was a member of the Royal Air Force during World War
II, first learned to fly when he was 18, and had flown across the
Atlantic Ocean eight times in the accident plane. The Canadian
Press reports the aircraft was on a short flight from Vancouver
International Airport to nearby Pitt Meadows, when witnesses saw
the plane flying erratically.
Officials began sifting through the tangled wreckage on Saturday
investigating the cause of the crash.
Transportation Safety Board spokesperson John Cottreau said that
the investigation will take time and that it's too early to "say
anything definitive."
"We're going to have to continue with phase one and gathering
the data and hopefully in the weeks and months ahead we'll have
some analysis that will tell us what happened and why it happened,"
Cottreau said Saturday.
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