Mon, Mar 02, 2009
Aircraft Impacted Wooded Area Late Friday Night
A Cessna 182
enroute from Slidell to Marksville, MS went down in a heavily
wooded area just before midnight Friday, fatally injuring all three
persons aboard.
Pilot Glen Johnson, 39, of Gautier, and his wife Tabitha
Dolbare, 39 and son Nelson Dolbare, 13 of Van Cleave were heading
to Marksville to visit friends when controllers lost radar contact
with the plane at about 11:50 pm, Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Roland Herwig said.
Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office was soon flooded with calls.
"They said they thought it was a plane crash. They thought they
heard an engine sputtering," Sheriff's Office spokesman Jason Ard
said. Deputies located the crash scene about two hours later with
the help of a helicopter equipped a searchlight, guiding rescue
personnel through a densely wooded area.
Debbie Gill, a neighbor and acquaintance of Johnson's for 25
years, spoke fondly of the family. "Glyn was a big talker. He never
met a stranger. He liked to talk. He always had a story to tell. It
wasn't unusual for Glyn to just get in his airplane and fly around.
He just loves to fly, loves airplanes and actually, he was building
an airplane."
"Tabitha and Nelson were very, very sweet," Gill added. "The
little boy was as sweet as could be. He was always out there riding
his bike and playing ball."
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports FAA supervisor Jude
Sellers said investigators have already formed a theory about the
cause of the crash, but declined to give any details prior to the
release of the official NTSB preliminary report.
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