Thursday’s plane crash one of three this decade

 

By Matt Lindberg
Daily Press Writer
Published/Last Modified on Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:12 AM MST

MONTROSE — Thursday’s plane crash on North Seventh and Park Avenue is one of at least three plane crashes that has occurred in Montrose since the beginning of the decade.

On Nov. 28, 2004, a Bombardier Challenger charter jet carrying president of NBC sports Dick Ebersol and his family, lost altitude and struck the Montrose runway shortly after takeoff, sliding 1,400 ft. off the runway and sparking a post-crash fire.

Ebersol’s 14-year-old son, Teddy, pilot Luis Alberto Polanco, 50, and flight attendant Warren Richardson III, 36, were all killed in the crash. Ebersol, another one of his children and a crew member sustained serious injuries, but survived.

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The National Transportation Safety Board said the cause of the crash was likely due to the flight crew’s failure to ensure the plane’s wings were free of ice, as the weather was a mix of snow and sleet that day.

On July 3, 2006, a small single-engine aircraft crashed into a tractor-trailer rig parked on South Ninth street. The plane burst into flames and killed both people on board, David Gibson, 61,Larry Smalley, 65. The plane’s propeller wasn’t powered at the time of the crash. No one on the ground was injured in this south Montrose neighborhood.
 

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    Mary wrote on Nov 19, 2009 10:07 AM:

    " How many car and truck accidents have there been since the start of the decade? How many of the occupants escaped with their lives? Could we have a recap of the fatalities? "

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