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IINGTON (AP) — The
lestigation of the plane
lit killed Gov. Mel
(found that his pilot son,
leame disoriented and
of his Cessna 335, in
lise the key instrument
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of the crash, saying
failed to control the
le aircraft because he
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caching 1/ to the accident, the
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New Jer^ne crashed on Oct. 16,
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andthef killing the governor,
rs there, d aide Chris Sifford.
Kansas in 'arnahan died three
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ree and! Republican John
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to rnaJ'^ Ban s name remained
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gest campaigning for election in
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i Iverso:! the crash, investigators
jmultuoAcused on the main
the cj|'nt Randy Carnahan
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used to navigate, the primary
altitude indicator.
Also called the artificial hori
zon, the altitude indicator
reports a plane’s position in the
air, telling whether a plane is
banking and whether the nose is
high or low.
NTSB investigators concluded
that the primary altitude indicator
u
The loss of the
primary altitude
indicator alone does
not explain why the
pilot lost control of
the airplane and
crashed.
National Transportation
Safety Board report
“was not displaying properly at
the time of impact,” although they
could not determine what caused
the malfunction.
A smaller, secondary altitude
indicator was working, investiga
tors concluded. Thus, “the loss of
the primary altitude indicator
alone does not explain why the
pilot lost control of the airplane
and crashed,” the report said.
Because the secondary instru
ment was smaller and located
several feet away, Randy
Carnahan would have had to turn
his head frequently and rapidly
for cross-checks with other
instruments, probably causing
“spacial disorientation” that noise
and turbulence from the storms
made worse, the report said.
A transcript of Randy
Carnahan’s conversation with
air traffic controllers, released
last year by the NTSB, shows
the pilot struggled with failed
instruments.
The altitude indicators are
powered by a vacuum pump and
manifold system, which the vic
tims’ families blame in wrong
ful death lawsuits for causing
the instrument failure.
Defendants in the case have said
negligence by Randy Carnahan
led to the crash.
The NTSB concluded that
because the secondary altitude
indicator was working, and
judging from parts found in the
wreckage, “adequate vacuum
existed for the airplane’s instru
ments to operate.”
But investigators said rotors
that powered the primary indica
tor’s display were not operating
at a high enough velocity to keep
it operating properly.
-year- old girl missing
mtl) «r LAKE CITY (AP) — A gunman broke
l ™ es .Borne and took a 14-year-old girl from her
| join Wednesday, warning the girl’s younger
nd mu J 6 wou 'd Burt her if she told anyone what
ready police said -
v t l^ e olice, some with tracking dogs, began search-
in no IT' fo^hills for Elizabeth Smart before dawn
authorities used a statewide emergency alert
is wasll n t f° r the first time to quickly broadcast
ihe foil 0 * 1111 '®'! about a missing child,
iterested'hhce'said there was no indication the man
this teaf 'Elizabeth, but authorities were looking at the
the 199-ity s computer to see if the girl had contacted
has beentgers online and interviewed the eighth-grad-
that the classmates at Bryant Intermediate School.
Bis was not a purely random act. He’d have
Armas tow that she lived there,” said Wes Galloway,
Jer who ■s’advocate for Salt Lake City police,
iss playerlfcabeth’s 9-year-old sister waited several
efore tfo s before alerting her parents about the abduc-
Clint Maifcecause of the threat, police spokesman
ami Baird said.
Ser, ’ W iM S ' Ster to,d P°Bce that the soft-spoken man
Bouse by forcing open a window and
had a small black handgun. Elizabeth was wearing
red pajamas, and the man let her take a pair of
shoes, police said.
Police said the man did not force open a win
dow in the girls’ bedroom, but did not say exactly
where the window was.
The man did not leave the home through the
same window, police said.
Baird also said the family’s home is for sale
and police are looking at a list of people who
toured the house, a 7-bedroom home listed at
$1.19 million.
Elizabeth’s disappearance was the first use of
Utah’s Emergency Alert System, known as the
Rachael Alert. It was created in April to quickly
broadcast information about an abducted child.
The alert started about 3 1/2 hours after police
were notified of the girl’s disappearance.
The Rachael Alert, named after a Utah girl
abducted and killed in 1982, was adapted from the
Amber Plan, named for 9-year-old Amber
Hagerman, who was abducted and murdered in
Texas in 1996. Utah is the ninth state to establish
the program.
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