Friday, May 05, 2006

Scott Crossfield died April 19

Test Pilot Scott Crossfield Dies in Crash
Staff and agencies 01 May, 2006
NTSB: Crossfield's Plane Broke Up in Storm
Friday April 28, 2006 3:16 AM
ATLANTA (AP) - The wreckage of famed test pilot Scott Crossfield's single-engine plane indicates it broke apart during a severe thunderstorm, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report.
Crossfield, who in the early 1950s was the first person to fly at twice the speed of sound, died April 19 while en route from Prattville, Ala., to his home in Manassas, Va., in his Cessna 210A.
The 84-year-old pilot was the only person aboard when the plane crashed into mountainous terrain in northern Georgia.

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