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2008/07/27

Pilot and Passenger Survive Riverside Crash




What: World War II-era Ercoupe fixed-wing plane
Where: about a quarter-mile southwest of Corona Municipal Airport just after takeoff
When: 1:50 p.m 07/26/2008
Who: Herbert Allen Guiness, ( who piloted a B-24 Liberator four-engine bomber in World War II ) and Thomas Wixon
Why: Guiness took off at about 80 mph with a 20 mph crosswind, and as he turned to get out of the flight pattern, the wind stopped and he felt a downward draft. He throttled up but the plane "just kept going down."
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