{"id":14069,"date":"2014-12-03T21:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/?p=14069"},"modified":"2014-12-03T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T21:07:21","slug":"antique-plane-pilot-wife-died-flying-in-bad-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2014\/12\/03\/antique-plane-pilot-wife-died-flying-in-bad-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Antique plane pilot, wife died flying in bad weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Times-Shamrock Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pilot of an antique airplane who died with his wife when the plane crashed on Labor Day last year near their private Lenox Twp. landing strip ignored bad-weather warnings and tried to land in a thunderstorm, the National Transportation Safety Board has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Y. Huf, 73, an experienced pilot who lived near the strip with his wife, Elaine, 65, told a friend he had developed a way of landing using a global positioning satellite \u201cin case the weather got bad,\u201d the friend told an NTSB crash investigator.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Huf\u2019s 1944 Cessna T-50 Bobcat twin-propeller struck a treetop 45 feet above the ground, then, 185 feet later, a second tree 10 feet lower before hitting the terrain and bursting into flames that consumed the plane another 175 feet past the second tree.<\/p>\n<p>The 8:30 p.m. crash happened about two miles southeast of the Hufs\u2019 home.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB blamed the crash directly on Mr. Huf, saying he never got updated weather information and intentionally flew into thunderstorms that obscured visibility and led him to crash into the trees.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Huf and his wife were on the final leg of a flight that started in Blakesburg, Iowa, where they attended the Labor Day weekend annual convention of the Antique Airplane Association.<\/p>\n<p>About 5 p.m., a flight service company briefed Mr. Huf, warning him of a storm watch for the skies across Pennsylvania and specifically near his home.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing agent cautioned Mr. Huf against flying using \u201cvisual flight rules\u201d \u2014 relying on being able to see surroundings to fly \u2014 because of the weather. As it turned out, 15 minutes after the crash, a medical helicopter responding to a traffic accident not far from the plane crash was grounded because of \u201cthe electrical storm,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoger, understand, we\u2019ll look at the weather radar, thank you much,\u201d Mr. Huf replied. If he understood, he didn\u2019t pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>One witness told an investigator he saw the plane fly out of his sight, then return flying west \u201cright on top of the trees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airplane then flew off in the direction of an \u2018enormous black cloud with lightning flashing out of it\u2019 and eventually out of his view,\u201d the NTSB report says.<\/p>\n<p>Other witnesses said they heard the plane flying \u201clow\u201d and \u201creally loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne witness went outside her home and said the sound of the airplane suddenly stopped,\u201d the report says.<br \/>\n\u201cShe saw a flash in the vicinity of the crash site, but couldn\u2019t determine if it was lightning or a fire.\u201d<br \/>\nNo search began for three days. Six days after the crash, state police found the wreckage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK Times-Shamrock Writer The pilot of an antique airplane who died with his wife when the plane crashed on Labor Day last year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Antique plane pilot, wife died flying in bad weather - PS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2014\/12\/03\/antique-plane-pilot-wife-died-flying-in-bad-weather\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antique plane pilot, wife died flying in bad weather - 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