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Accident Briefs—June 2025

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Witness statements and recorded video showed that during the takeoff roll from the 5,500-foot-long asphalt runway, the airplane accelerated slower than normal, used more runway than normal, and lifted off the runway in a nose-high attitude. It climbed about 300 feet above ground level while flying a left traffic pattern back to the runway.

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Accident Briefs—June 2025

Plane and Pilot

Witness statements and recorded video showed that during the takeoff roll from the 5,500-foot-long asphalt runway, the airplane accelerated slower than normal, used more runway than normal, and lifted off the runway in a nose-high attitude. It climbed about 300 feet above ground level while flying a left traffic pattern back to the runway.

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Bears in Blue Ridge | Part 3, Down with ODP

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A Dunkin' in Jasper, GA made for makeshift flight planning space as we waited on fog to lift at Pickens County Airport. The weather was visibly lifting and he assured them that their chartered aircraft would return. It was one of the most baffling exchanges with Air Traffic Control that I had ever overheard.

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Alton Bay's "Excellent Water"

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As Warrior 481 lifted us to a cruise altitude of 7,500 feet, the first hint of the sunrise came in the form of a massive fireball turned vermillion by miles of low haze between us and the horizon. hours in actual instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). small and cramped inside) and unhurried (i.e.,

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