[ARRL-OK] FW: Worldradio News: 4 Hams En Route to Contest Station Killed in Plane Crash

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

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> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:08:34 -0400
> To: worldradio-l at mailman.sunserver.com
> From: w2vu at cq-amateur-radio.com
> Subject: [Worldradio-l] News: 4 Hams En Route to Contest Station Killed in Plane Crash
> 
> From the CQ/WorldRadio Online Newsroom...
> 
> Four well-known contesters en route to operate the CQ World Wide DX 
> Contest this weekend from Bermuda were killed yesterday when their 
> plane crashed shortly after takeoff from South Carolina. The four, 
> all regular operators of the C6APR contest station, were identified 
> as Peter Radding, W2GJ/C6APR, the pilot; and passengers Ed Steeble, 
> K3IXD/C6AXD; Randy Hargenrader, K4QO/C6AQO, and Dallas Carter, W3PP. 
> According to the local Summerville Journal Scene newspaper, the plane 
> crashed 250 yards east of the runway at Summerville Airport in 
> Jedburg, South Carolina. The cause of the crash has not yet been 
> determined, but Radding was a very experienced pilot. County Coroner 
> Chris Nesbit told the newspaper that it appears the four were killed 
> by the severity of the crash itself rather than the fire that 
> followed. Autopsies are scheduled for today.
> 
> CQ WW Contest Director Bob Cox, K3EST, called the crash, "a real 
> tragedy," adding that "devoted hams and contesters were lost." The 
> C6APR team was featured in the cover story of April's WorldRadio 
> Online, and Steeble wrote an article in the April, 2007 issue of CQ 
> about his experiences as QSL manager for C6APR and for a special 
> Islands on the Air expedition, W2GJ/C6A, in 2006. As of this morning, 
> comments from hams around the world had been posted on the Journal 
> Scene's website.