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2008/10/26

Piper Crash in Virginia Kills Man and Woman




What: single-engine aircraft, Piper PA-24 en route from Asheville, North Carolina, to Charlottesville
Where: in a densely wooded area about one-half mile from Route 20 near the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
When: Oct. 24, 2008 7:20 p.m. Friday
Who: 47-year-old Thomas Mahoney and 50-year-old Elizabeth Marie Paris died instantly.
Why: The airport received a distress call at 7:20. The crash occurred 12 miles from CHO after the flight hadbeen cleared for an instrument approach to the airport, but the aircraft was found crashed 2 hours later at approximately 9:30 p.m. Weather conditions were unfavorable. (It was drizzling.)
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