Plane Crash at Wiley Post

[Viking Kitten]

Showing flames and stuff on MSNBC. Yipes.

[royalfan5]

Is that the commercial airport?

[GrapevineSooner]

No, it's in northwest OKC.

More like a municipal airfield.

[Viking Kitten]

Here's the local link. (http://newsok.com/article/3211930/1204667044)

[birddog]

it's close to rockwell and 63rd.

[BigRedJed]

It's a general aviation-only airport, royalfan.

[King Crimson]

yeah, it's not the passenger airport.

[BigRedJed]

A "small jet" flying out of Wiley Post? I'll be holding my breath to hear who it is. Hopefully not someone important to the local corporate community. Not to be cold there; it's bad news no matter who it is.

[SicEmBaylor]

So, both of OKC's airports are named after guys killed in a plane crash?

Tulsa>OKC

[King Crimson]

So, both of OKC's airports are named after guys killed in a plane crash?

Tulsa>OKC

pretty predictable. you don't get it do you. or you are pretend? like you didn't already know that?

[birddog]

sad news. i'll be interested to see what the details are.



sicem, if you continue to wear a hat all day, you'll lose your hair faster. true story.

[royalfan5]

sad news. i'll be interested to see what the details are.



sicem, if you continue to wear a hat all day, you'll lose your hair faster. true story.
It looks like the article has some more details now.

[StoopTroup]

Sounds like some Doctors....

Cessna 500 (http://oklahoma.aircraftdata.net/record/113SH/southwest-orthopedic---sports-medicine-clinic-pc.aspx)

http://www.swmc.org/new/ (http://www.swmc.org/new/)

[OU-HSV]

sad news. i'll be interested to see what the details are.



sicem, if you continue to wear a hat all day, you'll lose your hair faster. true story.
Nah, he can simply put some Quaker 10W30 on it and give it a combover ;)







...it's all in fun Sicem :D

[SicEmBaylor]

pretty predictable. you don't get it do you. or you are pretend? like you didn't already know that?

I knew about Will Rogers Airport, but I didn't know there was a Wiley Post airport in OKC.

[C&CDean]

I knew about Will Rogers Airport, but I didn't know there was a Wiley Post airport in OKC.
And that damn near every Air Force base is named after dead pilots.

[BigRedJed]

Dang. Is that where OU's team docs are from? I think it might be.

[Sooner_Bob]

So that's what all the commotion was about . . . I was heading back from Clinton and saw all the responders.

[Boomer_Sooner_sax]

So, both of OKC's airports are named after guys killed in a plane crash?

Tulsa>OKC

They died in the same plane crash too!!! :eek:

[Jimminy Crimson]

Dang. Is that where OU's team docs are from? I think it might be.

Most of OU's team docs are part of OU Med, McBride, or Saints.

Here's a list of the docs from Southwest Sports Med:

Anthony L. Cruse, D.O.
R. J. Langerman, Jr., D.O.
Mehdi N. Adham, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Daniel J. Jones, M.D.
Aaron C. Wade, P.A.-C., RN
Travis R. Warford, P.A.-C.
Angela Waples, P.A.C.
Erica L. Bertrand, P.A.C.
Jayme L. Royston, P.A.C.
Keri A. Borror, P.A.C.
Jenny J. Harmon, P.A.C.

We know it wasn't Cruse. That's all for now...

[SicEmBaylor]

They died in the same plane crash too!!! :eek:

I know. ;)

[Jimminy Crimson]

I'm going to guess Jones, since he has some Minnesota connections.


Daniel J. Jones, M.D., an Orthopaedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine Specialist, providing care in treatment of athletic injuries as well as traumatic or degenerative conditions compromising the function of the upper or lower extremities. Dr. Jones completed his internship and residency at the University of Washington and completed his Fellowship in Sports Medicine in the Minneapolis Sports Medicine Center; Minneapolis, MN.

[BigRedJed]

Jimminy, does your pops know any of those guys?

[Jimminy Crimson]

Jimminy, does your pops know any of those guys?

Not that I know of, but its possible.

I think I recognize the Cruse and Langerman names from stuff they do on the Sports Animal.

[StoopTroup]

Prayers for all the folks affected...

[bluedogok]

I used to ride motorcycles in the area where the plane had crashed before the houses were built there 30+ years ago. Growing up out there and going to PC West I knew that area well.


The Oklahoman - Metro plane crash proves fatal (http://newsok.com/article/3211930/)
Staff Reports
The crash of a small jet in northwest Oklahoma City today has proven fatal, officials said.

Three members of United Engines of Oklahoma City were among those killed in Tuesday's plane crash said the wife of crash victim Frank M. Pool Jr., executive vice president of the company.

Valrie Pool said those killed included Garth Bates, president of the company, her husband and another business associate.

"He was an honest, smart, really intelligent person," Valrie Pool said of her husband of 26 years.

Valrie Pool said her husband, Bates and other associates bought the company in 2001.

"They were great business partners and great friends," she said. "They were really well-liked by the people at United Engines."

Frank Pool, 60, and Valrie Pool have one daughter, Lara Pool, 22, a senior at the University of Denver.

As many as five people, including two pilots, may have died in the crash, said Kevin Rowland, chief investigator for the state medical examiner’s office.

“We can’t begin the body recovery until tomorrow due to darkness and the condition of the scene,” he said about 7:15 p.m.

The plane crashed about 3:15 p.m. near NW 10 and Council, said Roland Herwig, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. He said it was a Cessna 500, also known as a Citation. The aircraft departed Wiley Post and crashed 5 miles southwest of Wiley Post.

Herwig said the destination was Mankato, Minn. Valrie Pool said they were going to Minnesota for business.

The plane departed from the hangar of Interstate Helicopters at Wiley Post, said a helicopter pilot with that company who would not provide his name. He said two pilots were onboard but was not sure how many passengers were aboard.

Interstate Helicopters is an aircraft management company, according to the company’s Web site.

“Interstate was merely a facilitator to provide an airplane and a crew to the customer, and I’m not at liberty to release the customer’s name at this point,” said David C. Johnston Jr., Interstate’s attorney.

He said there was a “fully qualified ... two-man crew flying the airplane.”

Herwig said the plane is registered to Southwest Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Clinic P.C. of Oklahoma City.

“We are not familiar with this particular group that owns this airplane,” a spokeswoman with the Mankato Regional Airport said.

Wayne Allison, a clinic official with Southwest Orthopaedic, linked the plane to Dr. Anthony L. Cruse. The doctor was not on the plane and was performing surgery at the time of the crash.

Jason Lipscomb called The Oklahoman. He is junior varsity baseball coach at Putnam City West High School. He was at baseball practice when he and team members looked up and saw “a jet spiraling” and “it sounded weird.”

“Planes and jets fly over our field all the time, but this jet was way louder than normal,” Lipscomb said. “Then we saw it (had) gone down.”

The coach left practice, got into a truck and went to the crash site in the woods. “I know that area pretty well ... near Lake Overholser,” he said.

Lipscomb said he saw flaming wreckage and a body about 30 yards south of the wreckage. He took pictures with a camera phone. “I think I was the first guy there,” he said.

As she was driving west on NW 10 to Bethany, the plane flew right over Lindsey Allison, who is not associated with the clinic. The small plane was going south.

She thought it was “a stunt plane.”

“It was flipping and spinning and going almost upside down. It was all happening right in front of me. Then it seemed to lose all control; it went straight down and crashed,” said Allison, a clerk with the Oklahoma County sheriff's office. With her was her son, Levi, 6.

“I couldn't believe that it was going to crash,” she said. She thought she was the second person on the accident scene.

Ryan Coleman was in his home about a half mile from the crash when he heard a loud boom, he said.

“I was inside my house with the TV on and heard it over that,” the 30-year-old said. “You could hear it (the plane) hit the trees. You could hear pop, pop, pop and then boom. I didn't think it was a plane.”

Coleman thought nothing really of it until he saw on TV what had happened, he said.

He ran from his home to the east bank of the Canadian River where he saw smoke and fire in the woods.

He stood on the east side of the river looking across, watching firefighters douse the flaming wreckage and paramedics attempt to save lives, he said.

[Okla-homey]

Most of OU's team docs are part of OU Med, McBride, or Saints.

Here's a list of the docs from Southwest Sports Med:

Anthony L. Cruse, D.O.
R. J. Langerman, Jr., D.O.
Mehdi N. Adham, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Daniel J. Jones, M.D.
Aaron C. Wade, P.A.-C., RN
Travis R. Warford, P.A.-C.
Angela Waples, P.A.C.
Erica L. Bertrand, P.A.C.
Jayme L. Royston, P.A.C.
Keri A. Borror, P.A.C.
Jenny J. Harmon, P.A.C.

We know it wasn't Cruse. That's all for now...

I bet Cruse and Langerman are both Pokeys...what with the D.O. dealio.

Just sayin'

[sooner_born_1960]

I bet Cruse and Langerman are both Pokeys...what with the D.O. dealio.

Just sayin'
Langerman is on this page.
http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/communications/osu_phys/fall1999/donors.htm

[OU4LIFE]

I bet Cruse and Langerman are both Pokeys...what with the D.O. dealio.

Just sayin'

Ok, dude. That really sounded like a slight. PLEASE tell me it wasn't.

[Cheerin' 4 OU]

I bet Cruse and Langerman are both Pokeys...what with the D.O. dealio.

Just sayin'

Langerman's a Sooner fan. You can't mention football around him during an appointment without him glowing about the greatness that is OU football.

[journeyman]

Sooner Family,

I had the privilege of knowing both of the pilots who lost their lives in this tragedy. Both were excellent men with plenty of integrity to spare for the rest of us. They were great husbands and fathers. They died doing what they loved. Sadly, they died way too young. Both leave their wives behind and both have school age children. Please pray and remember the Sandoval and Hartman families. Rick Sandoval's memorial service was today; Tim Hartman's is Saturday. We grieve also with the Pool, Bates, and Austin familes.

journeyman

[Roncalli]

prayers for the families.

[OUHOMER]

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