Plane Crashes into Building in Richmond

[Lil Me]

A small plane crashed into a Richmond, B.C. building late afternoon local time, killing the pilot and injuring two people. [a href="vny!://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=a8e3aed8-6cd1-4ee4-9b58-5e3e574ee931&k=29808" target="_blank"]The Vancouver Sun is reporting:[/a] [/p]    [blockquote]The plane, [a href="vny!://www.newpiper.com/aircraft/seneca_v/" target="_blank"]a Piper Seneca[/a] twin-engine, crashed through the windows of a ninth-floor apartment in the glass and concrete building.
[/p][/blockquote] [blockquote]  The small aircraft, with a maximum capacity of six people, departed from the south runway at Vancouver International Airport at 4:02 pm and was headed to Pitt Meadows, said Kate Donegani, a spokesperson for the airport authority.
   
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[P.C.]

I'm trying to imagine how weird that would be, to see an aircraft park it in your living room.  

[Lise]

I read on DATW that the pilot was at least 82 years old!! That seems wrong! One shouldn't be driving or flying around that age.... no offense.

[P.C.]

That seems wrong! One shouldn't be driving or flying around that age.... no offense.

  Yea....I was kind of thinking the same thing.  It's very heartbreaking....but I think there comes a time when you have to hang up the wings.  They said he was very sharp and had all his faculties, and yet, I still wonder if we are going to be capable of reacting as sharply when we getting into those years.  I sadly don't think so.

[Russ]

My first thought was the same when i saw it was an 80 something year old guy.

  Family seems to think otherwise though.

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   [DIV class=storyheader] [H2]Family trusted 82-year-old veteran pilot[/H2]

[DIV class=feed_details] [H4]Catherine Rolfsen and Sunny Freeman, Vancouver Sun[/H4][SPAN]Published: Monday, October 22, 2007[/SPAN]

[FONT face=Arial size=2]METRO VANCOUVER - The family of Peter Garrison, the 82-year-old pilot who died Friday after crashing into a Richmond highrise, has spoken out to defend his flying abilities. [/FONT]

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 [FONT face=Arial size=2]"It's important, I think, that everybody knows that we had 110 per cent ... faith in Peter's flying ability. He was a superb pilot," said his stepdaughter Micheline Chavigny, who is acting as spokeswoman for the family. Chavigny, herself a student pilot, said she flew with her stepfather in his plane on Sunday, Oct. 14. [/FONT]

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