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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 29, 2010
Description:
The new day dawned with a major change of flight plan. The delays of the previous day meant I was looking for some short cuts. Flying through the Appalachian Mountains rather than around them offered the tempting possibility of getting back on schedule. I ignored the potential of associated AFT.
Of course there was wind to think about. It was forecast to be unrelenting, and wind in the mountains means a bumpy ride. Still, with the possibility of flying high in my turbo charged ride, I wasn’t so uncomfortable about cutting corners (a sure fire sign of SeRT).
It wasn’t long after launch that I came across a monstrous monadnock: Stone Mountain. The great quartz monzonite dome stands all alone 825’ above the surrounding area. Rather than fly through it, I spent some SeSuT circumnavigating it.
I wasn’t worried about smacking into the big rock. It has happened before, though.
Sixty two years earlier on another May 7, a mail plane crashed into the mountain just before dark. Maybe it was bad weather on that May day? And now, just two May days later (plus a few score and two years), another airplane was circling the airplane eating rock.
Seven years ago it happened again, at about the same time of day in mid-September. After circling the dome several times, a Bonanza pilot intentionally turned his airplane towards it, diving into the rock. Crash investigators found he had been drinking earlier in the day and had threatened suicide. He ended his threat in a seriously spectacular way.
Date Taken:
May 29, 2010
Place Taken:
Stone Mountain, GA
Owner:
Dan Nickens
File Name:
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Category:
420, Canadian Flight Time
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