![]() ![]() Francis Xavier Catholic Church - one for parts of the planes, the other for the passengers. ![]() The fragments occupy separate rooms at St. Today, while investigators attempted to replay radar data from the tower at nearby Hill Air Force Base, local sheriff's deputies continued to hunt in the snow for pieces from the accident. Drug and alcohol tests conducted Friday on the controller were negative. The controller handling the SkyWest plane was fully trained, investigators said. ![]() Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board determined Friday that the Mooney had strayed illegally into a restricted zone known as an Airport Radar Surveillance Area (ARSA). 2 and Flight 834 cleared to land at Salt Lake City International. 2, the Mooney heading in for another touch-and-go at Airport No. The two planes were about two miles north of Airport No. 2, who talked with Baker by radio.Īt 12:52 p.m., the Mooney and Flight 834 collided, killing Baker, Lietz and the eight people on the commuter plane. "He did about four of them," said Ron Nelson, the base operator at Airport No. This time Baker wanted to practice "touch-and-gos" - landings and takeoffs. The Mooney was his third plane, and he had logged 38 hours in it around Salt Lake City, all with Lietz. It was 12:11 p.m.Ībout 20 minutes later, Chester Baker, a foreman at a trucking firm here, and Paul Lietz, his friend and flight instructor, took off in Baker's four-seat, blue and white Mooney from a small airport 10 miles south of Salt Lake City International Airport.īaker, 38, was a licensed pilot with 300 hours of flying time - all out of Airport No. ![]() The crew flew alone in the twin-engine Fairchild Swearingen Metro to its next stop, Pocatello, for repairs.Īt Pocatello a faulty switch was repaired, and the 17-seat commuter plane resumed its shuttle service around the West, taking on six passengers and heading south to Salt Lake City. 17 - Eleven lucky passengers were turned away from SkyWest Flight 834 Thursday morning in Idaho Falls because of a mechanical defect. ![]()
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