Four Persons On Board Found Deceased

Nothing starts with quite so much hope as an emergency aircraft search... though far too few of them result in happy endings. A Cessna 182 (file photo, right), missing for three days, was found after an extensive search of a remote area of NE Montana.

Found 25 miles SW of Glasgow, the search had been hampered by bad weather until the aircraft was spotted by an eagle-eyed pilot. 

Found on board were Pilot Bill Newman, 45, his sons Lance, 14, and Ray, 24, and Ray's fiancee, Jessica Grode, 21, of Ipswich, SD.

Newman had flown to Mobridge, SD, to pick up Grode and was returning to Cut Bank, MT, when he told ATC he was approaching bad weather conditions. Newman had originally learned to fly in high school, and after having gotten out of flying for over 20 years, had just started flying again.

** Report created 1/5/2004 Record 6 **
IDENTIFICATION
 Regis#: 3171S Make/Model: C182 Description: 182, Skylane
 Date: 01/01/2004 Time: 0130
 Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
 Damage: Destroyed
LOCATION
 City: GLASGOW State: MT Country: US

DESCRIPTION
 AIRCRAFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, AIRCRAFT WAS A SUBJECT OF AN ALERT NOTICE AND WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLASGOW, THE FOUR PERSONS ON BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURIED AND THE AIRCRAFT WAS DESTROYED, GLASGOW, MT

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 4
 # Crew: 1 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
 # Pass: 3 Fat: 3 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
 # Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
WEATHER: UNK
OTHER DATA
 Activity: Unknown Phase: Unknown Operation: General Aviation
 Departed: MOWBRIDGE, SD Dep Date: 01/01/2004 Dep. Time: 0126
 Destination: CUTBANK, MT Flt Plan: VFR Wx Briefing: Y
 Last Radio Cont: GGW AREA SALT LAKE FLIGHT WATCH
 Last Clearance: UNK
 FAA FSDO: HELENA, MT (NM05) Entry date: 01/05/2004

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