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38 Cards in this Set
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Where do you live |
Crawford, lonestar |
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High school and college |
Crawford High school & university of lonestar down in Austin |
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degree from university of lonestar |
aeronautical engineering |
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degree from Lonestar A&M |
masters in Art history |
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first job after college |
airplane manufacturer in Seattle, Washington as avionics design co-ordinator |
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what does an avionics design coordinator do |
determines where the instruments ought to be placed in the cockpit so a pilot can access information as quickly as possible. |
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how long did you work there |
3 years, 6 months, 8 days |
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why did you quit your first job |
was way below my skill level, wanted more recognition, pay and money |
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second job |
National transportation's Safety board |
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what was your job at NTSB |
decipher info from avionics systems following crashes |
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how were you able to ascertain info about the avionics in an aircraft after a crash |
black box, well today black boxes more than the one, and orange |
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function of the black box |
record mechanical and electrical information from aircraft system |
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how long did you work there |
10 years, 4 months, 27 days |
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third job |
Federal aviation Administration (FAA) as air traffic controller |
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Air traffic controller responsibilities |
identifying aircraft that are in the air in our region,communicating with those aircraft concerning various issues, and making sure that theaircraft stay in the air where they should be and get to the ground when they want to. |
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Is their a particular place you work as an air traffic controller |
Fort Worth Regional Air Route Traffic Control Center. |
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usual hours and hours that night |
7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. but that night all the way until 12 a.m. |
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when did you start communication with Mr. Fortenberry |
11:22 p.m. he called air traffic control declaring an emergency |
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Did he specifically describe the emergency that he was declaring? |
said that his single engine aircraft had lost all power. At that time,he was not utilizing his transponder, so I asked him to turn on his transponder and tosquawk 4500 so I could spot him on radar. |
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where was he? |
He was 55.7 miles northwest of Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center, which puthim over a very unpopulated area, frankly too close to Oklahoma for comfort. |
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asked him his altitude and airspeed |
he was flying at 3,000 feet above sea level and haddropped his airspeed to 80 knots to conserve altitude. |
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And how high above ground would he have been at that point? |
Because the terrain in that area is rolling, it is hard to say, but generally the elevation ofthat area is around 500 feet, putting Mr. Fortenberry at 2,500 feet above ground level |
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I asked what type of aircraft he was flying |
Piper Cygnet which is a single engine aircraft with a high wingconfiguration. It is a type of aircraft that can fly at a fairly low speed and the view of theground is very good because of the high wing. |
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I asked him what his fuel gauges were showing |
Plane like that has 2 guages, 1 for the right tank and 1 for the left but he continued to change the subject when i asked |
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I asked him did he fuel the tank personally |
no chris jensen did |
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What did you tell him about possible landing spots? |
based on his location and low altitude there was no public airfield close enough for him to glide |
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Did you find the private airstrip he was reffering to? |
the south fork ranch and it was approximately 10 miles from his location |
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what did you do next? |
I used my computer to determine whether the strip had a system called pilot activatedlighting, which is simply a system that allows a pilot to fly over and click his microphonea certain number of times and that will turn on the runway lights so that he can see themand land. |
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Could he land without the lights? |
very doubtful, it was dark, no moon, he didn't know the terrain or the area |
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Did South Fork Ranch have the PAL system |
it had a unicom, and PAL sysem which i told him of both |
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he then said he already knew that and needed to know how many clicks |
i told him little airways like that typically use 3 but they range from 3,5,7 |
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What happen next |
he said he reduced speed and did the three clicks but received no response |
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how long did this continue |
for about 5 minutes because he was continuing to lose altitude and began clicking like a mad man but saw no runway lights |
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what was your last communication with Mr. Fortenberry |
Mr. Fortenberry reported that he was at 200 feet AGL, had never seen any runway lights,and was going to try to set the plane down in what appeared to be a pasture. |
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What happened after last communication |
the plane got too low in altitude for me to keep in contact with and after a few minutes of no contact i determined he must've had difficulty landing |
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What did you do after all of this? |
called my FAA supervisor and reported a probable plane down in which an investigation by the NTSB commenced. |
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in the NTSB report what was the cause of the engine failure |
it was capable of producing power but lacked fuel |
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Nig |
Faggot |
