Tragédie aux USA, 4 copains radioamateurs se tuent dans le crash de leur avion

Jeudi 22 octobre 2009 4 22 /10 /2009 13:19

Four Radio Amateurs Killed in Plane Crash While En Route to CQWW Phone Contest

Peter W2GJ, Ed K3IXD, Dallas W3PP, Randy K4QO

Les quatre OM se rendaient sur l'île des BAHAMAS
pour le concours CQ W.W. DX HF SSB sous l'indicatif C6APR...
la triste suite ici

Just after take-off, a twin-engine plane carrying four Amateur Radio operators crashed into the woods, only 250 yards off the end of the runway in Jedburg, South Carolina, about 20 miles northwest of Charleston. The plane -- piloted and owned by Peter Radding, W2GJ -- carried Ed Steeble, K3IXD, Dallas Carter, W3PP, and Randy Hargenrader, K4QO. The four men were on their way to the Bahamas to operate in this weekend's CQ World Wide Phone Contest as C6APR, competing in the Multi/2 category.

Robert Biss, W8ZA, accompanied Radding, Steeble, Carter and Hargenrader to the Bahamas last year for the 2008 running of the CQWW SSB Contest. The crew getting ready to leave for C6: Ed, K3IXD/C6IXD; Dallas, W3PP; Pete, W2GJ/C6APR, and Bob, W8ZA. [Photo courtesy of Robert Biss, W8ZA]

Bird Rock Lighthouse, ARLHS BAH-005, through the window of Pete Radding's W2GJ, twin-engine plane.

Bob, W8ZA, and Dallas, W3PP, look over the shoulder of Pete, W2GJ/C6APR, while calculating the weight and balance for the trip. [Robert Biss, W8ZA,
Dallas, W3PP tunes the 80/160 meter vertical under the watchful eye of Pete, W2GJ/C6APR.

(Source ARRL)