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NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on San Diego Crash

Flying Magazine

The NTSB report notes that at the time of the accident, there was a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) in effect informing pilots that the Runway Alignment Indicator (RAI) lights were out of service. The airplane crossed PALOS, located 2.9 nm from the runway 28R displaced threshold, at 03:46 a.m. nautical miles from the runway.

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A Crowded House for the Widow of Reading

Photographic Logbook

Softened by excessive rain, the runway was NOTAMed closed. Short-coupled with a large horizontal stabilizer, the aircraft was practically a staggered biplane. The twin tail booms, vertical stabilizers, engines, and forward fuselage were years away from being mounted. The Black Widow in 2009.