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Offline 68spc

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80 year old lady lands plane when husband dies.
« on: April 03, 2012, 01:06:51 PM »
This is not far away from me. I don't suppose there is any audio on this.

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local/lakeshore/plane-makes-hard-landing-in-door-county



Offline RV1

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Re: 80 year old lady lands plane when husband dies.
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2012, 12:52:25 AM »
Probably wont be much if any. They were on KSUE unicom frequency. The controllers were able to talk to her via portable/dialable radios only.

Offline kell490

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Re: 80 year old lady lands plane when husband dies.
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2012, 09:05:21 PM »
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin-wife-80-lands-plane-dying-pilot-husband/story?id=16062534#.T3zu-dWfjIE

abc news had most of the audio as they talked her down. Sounded like it got little stressed at the end keeping her from stalling it or diving into the runway.

Offline ORD Don

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Re: 80 year old lady lands plane when husband dies.
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2012, 11:27:28 AM »





                           God bless her !!!         She's a better man than me...

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Re: 80 year old lady lands plane when husband dies.
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2012, 03:11:18 AM »
She even lost one engine, and performed a go-around, entire audio recording here....

http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wbay/Door_County_Plane_audio_recording.mp3

Apparently she had taken flying lessons and even soloed earlier in her life, EAA did a story of the pilot who talked her down here...Amazing story.

http://www.eaa.org/news/2012/2012-04-05_vuksanovic.asp




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Offline klasseman

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Re: 80 year old lady lands plane when husband dies.
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2012, 06:32:23 PM »
Who, that's a brave women.