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From: brent@phoenix.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan)
Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive
Subject: Re: Jump-Plane Crash?
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Date: Sat, 18-May-85 15:35:55 EDT
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>	The other day I heard a (very) short news blip about a jump-plane
>	that had caught fire during take-off roll (or something like that).
>	Apparently everyone got out in time.  Has anyone heard any further
>	info on this alleged mishap?  Like, who, what, when, where, why,
>	and how?

I remember from the news item that it was a Perris DC3.  It threw 
a prop on takeoff, The engine caught fire and the pilot aborted
the takeoff.

All aboard escaped without injury before the fire spread and
consumed the whole aircraft.

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