[Tfug] WorldCare suggestions?

[keith smith]

Looks like 29th and Alvernon is not the place to be.


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Keith Smith



--- On Tue, 3/10/09, Richard Lamoreaux <rlumpy at comcast.net> wrote:
From: Richard Lamoreaux <rlumpy at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] WorldCare suggestions?
To: bexley401 at yahoo.com, "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:52 PM

>> BTW, anyone know why that school was sold?

>The school wasn't "sold".  The board of ed (TUSD?) still
>holds the title.  They lease it to WorldCare.

>The building is located directly in DM's flight path
>so there was fear of a plane coming down (not likely)
>on the school.  The more practical reason is you
>can't *hear* when those A10's creep overhead!!
>(it's amazing that they can fly that slow!)

>--don

There have been several aircraft problems from DM related aircraft over the
years.

(From http://www.tucsound.com/history.shtml)

 1941: A four- engine bomber crashes into a house on Elida Street near North
Country Club Road and East Pima Street.
 1944: A B-24 takes the roof off a house on South Alvernon Way near East 36th
Street. Two crew members are killed.
 1956: An F-86 crashes near South Country Club Road and East 36th Street,
narrowly missing an elementary school. Pilot is killed.
 1959: A piece of debris from a passing jet falls and kills a bicyclist near
South Alvernon Way and East 29th Street.
 1959: A wing tank from a B-47 falls onto a house and explodes near South
Alvernon Way and East 36th Street, killing one person.
 DEC-1967: An F-4D Phantom crashes into a supermarket at South Alvernon Way and
East 29th Street. Three women in the store are killed, and a teenage girl is
killed in her house behind the store. Two houses on South Winstel Blvd are
destroyed, a third is damaged.
 1970: An Air National Guard F-100 crashes near Sunnyside Junior High School at
South Sixth Ave and East Valencia Road, killing the pilot. The school has since
closed.
 OCT-1978: An A-7 crashes at North Highland Ave and East 6th Street, just
missing the University of Arizona campus and Mansfeld Middle School. Two women
are killed at the scene; five others are injured.

I actually saw the 1978 A7 go low over the UA campus, the pilot parachute down,
and the conflagration on Highland Avenue (the whole street was on fire). 

http://dm.greenbicycle.net/documents/Devastating_Impact.pdf




      

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