Editor's Log
June 2006 Issue
Editor's Log: 06/06
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Crossfield
As most in the aviation community know by now, legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield died April 19 when his Cessna 210A “rapidly descended into remote mountainous terrain near Ludville, Ga., after entering an area of thunderstorms,” as the NTSB put it. According to the safety board, his airplane entered a Level 6 thunderstorm just prior to ATC losing radar contact. “The wreckage distribution was consistent with a low altitude in-flight breakup.”
So ended the story of one of aviation’s most accomplished yet undemanding and innocuous personalities.
I knew Scott barely well enough to be on a first-name basis with him. We first met back in the mid-1980s...
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