Aircraft N61529 Data

Cancel Date: 05/06/2005
Reason for Cancellation: Destroyed

I was a flight instructor at the flight school that this aircraft was stationed and made its final flight with. On a very violent oklahoma-texas thunderstorm night a foreign student named Aksam Butt and a newly certified flight instructor named C.O. Raine were doing a night VFR cross country. Part of the training required for preparation of an instrument student. Long story short ..they got into a thunderstorm and lost sight of the ground and impacted at a HIGH rate of speed. No survivors. There was a female student named Jill Marshall who was going to go on the flight to ride as an observer. But she opted to stay behind. Good choice. I scraped up the remains of this aircraft in a very cold wet field somewhere near Hobart Oklahoma.