Cessna 310

It was this week in 1975.

He was on that Cessna 310 plane heading to Legion Stadium in North Carolina.

He was on the plane with David Crockett, Bob Ruggers, Tim Woods, Johnny Valentine, and the plane crashed.

You know, it's just amazing that anybody survived that plane crash.

Luckily, the morning shift was all pilots, so we know how to use all the flight tracking websites to get whatever information we need.

November 12345 is a Cessna 310, so we'll park them on the west side of the ramp.

ADSB Exchange showed them on a two-mile final, so we go outside, where we've got a radio on the airport frequency.

Wait, that's not a 310.

First, the disappearance of House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich.

In 1972, two prominent politicians, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich, along with aide Russell Brown and bush pilot Don Jonz, mysteriously vanished in the region while on their way back from Anchorage to Juneau while flying in their Cessna 310 aircraft.

An intense search lasted for 39 days, including 400 aircraft, an SR-71 Blackbird, dozens of boats, including 12 from the Coast Guard.

The search area covered over 32,000 square miles, an area about the size of the state of South Carolina.

All right, we had a really great example of this much closer to home, Lake Evella, which is a, uh, small little community out to the, uh, far east of, uh, the NT here, up in the top end, south of Gove.

And a Cessna 310 was seen coming across the threshold high, fast, and floated, uh, touched down some four hundred meters plus down the, uh, the threshold and, uh, just did not have enough runway left and, uh, effectively by the time braking was commenced, it was mostly all behind the pilot.

And yeah, the aircraft came off the side of the runway, hit a pole, a perimeter fence there, and pretty much ripped the wing clean off, uh, outboard from the engine nacelle and came to a stop.

And fortunately, nobody was hurt.