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2008/10/30

Valley View Airport Crash update


What: 1964 Cessna P206 en route to Valley View Airport in Estacada
Where: a field near the 30700 block of Northeast Lawrence Road
When: Found at 7:50 pm
Who: 54-year-old Mark Greenup, a Christmas tree farmer believed to have been flying the 1964 Cessna
registered to him, and 50-year-old George Smetana, both killed in the crash
Why: The pilot called the airport's owner of the airport to report all of the electrical equipment on the plane had become inoperable.
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Anonymous said...

Did you know that sometime prior to his death, Greenup won over $50k in a lawsuit against his neighbor, who killed his dog? This neighbor was very unhappy about the verdict and award. Did anyone look into whether or not his plane was tampered with? I believe this death is suspicious.

February 13, 2009 at 12:30 PM

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