Subj:	Fw: Konformist: Another Cessna crashed on Sunday (Michigan)
Date:	1/9/02 12:48:48 PM Pacific Standard Time

HHHmmmmm! One engine knocked out, but for the pilots lucky breaks, the thing
should have crashed and burned. All that fuel.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Coleman" <lcolema1@maine.rr.com>
To: <cessnas@lorencoleman.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 2:50 PM
Subject: Konformist: Another Cessna crashed on Sunday (Michigan)


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> Friday (01.04.02) in California, Sunday (01.06.02) in FL, CA, CO, PR,
> perhaps MT, and now MI too.  All Cessnas.
> ---------------------------------
> Tuesday, January 08, 2002
> Sturgis, Michigan
> Sturgis Journal
>
> Plane crash lands
>
> [Photo: Lawrence Werschky and his family walked away from his Cessna 414
> after it crash landed in a field west of Sturgis Sunday. Below, a piece of
> the wing of the plane was lodged in a tree.]
>
> By CLIFFORD JEFFERY STURGIS JOURNAL
>
> A Sturgis family who left Kirsch Municipal Airport at about 12:30 p.m.
> Sunday, didn't make it to their final destination.
>
> Dr. Lawrence Werschky, 62, of Sturgis, was flying his Cessna 414
twin-engine
> plane out of Sturgis with his wife and father on board when he called the
> Kalamazoo airport shortly after takeoff to report an emergency.
>
> The Kalamazoo tower notified Riley Aviation at the Sturgis airport,
> according to the Michigan State Police.
>
> Werschky reported having engine trouble that resulted in one of the two
> engines quitting, said Sturgis police Sgt. David Ives. Werschky tried to
> land at the Sturgis airport.
>
> Residents in Sturgis reported seeing the plane circling the city at a low
> altitude.
>
> Fire and rescue trucks were dispatched to meet the crippled plane at the
> airport, but it never reached the runway.
>
> When Werschky first tried to land the plane and failed, he circled
southwest
> of the airport to try again. But the plane went down before reaching the
> airport.
>
> The Cessna hit in a field between Balk and Stubey roads on the south side
of
> U.S. 12. It skidded across the road, coming to rest between two large
trees
> on the north side of the highway. Both wings were severed from the
fuselage,
> Ives said.
>
> Brothers Bob and Andy Spence were outside their home on U.S. 12 and saw
the
> plane come to rest just yards away.
>
> "It slid across the road. (The pilot and passengers) got out right away,"
> 11-year-old Andy Spence said. "There was gas everywhere," 15-year-old Bob
> Spence said. "We ran in and told our mom a plane crashed. She didn't
believe
> us until she looked out the window."
>
> Sturgis Fire and Rescue and Tri-township Fire Department personnel
responded
> to the scene. They found the three passengers with only minor injuries.
The
> plane was leaking more than 1,000 pounds of fuel, according to the Sturgis
> Fire Department.
>
> Werschky and his wife were treated for minor injuries. The plane is beyond
> repair, according to police.
>
> [Credit: Richard Hendricks]
>