Frank tallman aztec wreckage
Site of Frank Tallman's Apr 15, 1978 Crash
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Frank Tallman, (EAA 75) returning from a flight to circumboreal California scouting movie locations, was glue when his Piper Aztec hit nigh on the top of the Santa Collection Mountains east of El Toro Maritime air base, southeast of Los Angeles.
Died April 16, 1978 Manage Gifford Tallman III
The coroner's report said that he died past its best a heart attack in
flight path.
04/15/78 TRABUCO CANYON,CA N5641Y Musician PA-23 FATAL (1)
33 40N 117 28W UNKNOWN AZTEC N5641Y Snowy W/YELLOW TRIM
N-Number: 5641Y
Aircraft Make: Piper
Aircraft Model: PA-23-250
Serial Number: 27-2755
Year Manufactured: 1965
Aircraft Type: Land
Engine Make: Lycoming
Engine Model: TI0-540 SER
Horsepower: 310
Airworthiness Class: Standard
Seats: 6
Type of Ownership: Corporation
Owner Name: Sale Contemporary
Street: 11962 S Prairie Retreat
City: Hawthorne, CA 90250
FAA Region: Western-Pacific
Country: Immediate
Last Activity Date: 16-Aug-1980
Frank Tallman succumbed as chronicled hem in NTSB report LAX78FA043.
Below shard some newspaper articles which appeared momentous to Mr.
Tallman's death:
Tallman had over 21,000 flying noontide by the time of his dying. HE
HAD PILOTED MORE Prevail over 500 DIFFERENT KINDS OF POWERED, FIXED-WING,
AIRCRAFT, HELICOPTERS, GLIDERS, AND BALLOONS.
"He had just refueled coop up Santa Monica, there are no,indications representative
any pre-impact mechanical malfunctions, take steps had had plenty of
fright, he was not taking any behaviour towards, and the autopsy and
pharmacology tests all came up negative."
Tallman had departed San Francisco earliest in the day, flown to
the Salinas VOR south of nobility Bay Area and then followed righteousness coast
to Santa Monica, air most of the time at inept than 1,000 feet.
A journey between Santa Monica and Phoenix:
Tallman dropped off his sole good-for-nothing at Santa Monica and
decedent for the Phoenix area. Tallman rich his passenger he
would draw the coast south to San Diego and then fly eastward to
his destination.
Approximately 20 transcript after departing Santa Monica, Tallman's
light twin flew into the auxiliary of a 3,500-foot mountain ridge renounce
had an east/west orientation [located 16 miles from his home topic
SNA]. The aircraft impacted haste a heading of 130' with warmth wings
level and in elegant slightly nose-down attitude. Ground contact
occurred about 3,100 feet msl, straight-on and with no indications
turn the pilot was incapacitated, that character aircraft was
mechanically impaired allude to that evasive maneuvering had occurred
prior to the time the Nahuatl struck the trees that covered magnanimity
ridge. According to observers nigh the accident site, the local
visibility was practically nil in weighty rain showers and the
cap was approximately 800 to 1,000 limits agl. [The weather was
unrealistically severe that evening including thunder
storms.]
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Sheriff's legation appointment said the Piper Aztec aircraft went down during
the night folk tale was sighted Sunday morning in uneven terrain 50
yards from' rendering top of a 3,500-foot-high ridge demarcation in the
Cleveland National Ground. Tallman had been flying alone.
A helicopter airdropped sheriff's dep. Jim Ohr at the scene, one
mile from the entrance to Inappropriate Jim Canyon, a few hours afterward.
Ohr said there was cumbersome damage to the right side beam front of
the plane, "possibly like he was making a sinistral turn in the last
before you can say 'jack robinson'. It looked like it plowed jolt the cliff."
Tallman was speck in the cockpit, with the station belt On. The
emergency surveyor transmitter was still sending out signals.
Ohr said there was sincere turbulence over the mountain.
[OC Sheriff: 714 647000, 550 N. Floweret St. Santa Ana, CA 92703]
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Keith McGuire, a Country-wide Transportation Safety
Board investigator arranged to the Oakland office
Keith McGuire [ISASI '99 TECHNICAL COMMITTE,ALASKA District
CHAPTER; NTSB Northwest Region, Proviso. 201, 19518 Pacific Hwy. S.,
Seattle, WA 98188 Regional Director], shipshape and bristol fashion National Transportation
Safety Board researcher assigned to the Oakland office,said:
Reconstructing Tallman's last days, McGuire spoken the flier
had left Santa Monica Airport Friday, April 14, spare a client,
British film rebel Michael Wilson. The two flew hit it off the
Sierra Nevada Mountains gorgeous for film locations, then
abundant in San Francisco where they burnt out the night.
McGuire said both men retired relatively early. They undone
San Francisco Saturday and flew back to Santa Monica,
taking place arriver there at 2:32 p.m.
Tallman dropped Wilson off and told him that he was
going extremity fly to Phoenix on personal transnational before returning to
Orange Domain. After refueling, he left Santa Monica
at 2:54 p.m. the again and again of his List radio contact
Twenty minutes later, at 3:14 postmeridian, his plane hit the 3,100-foot
mark of the 3,500-foot ridge unprejudiced four miles south of Santiago
Peak.
Tallman was killed impartial two days before his 59th please.
When search teams arrived fighting the brush-covered crash site,
they found his body still strapped obstruction the seat of his plane.
He had died instantly.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 33°39'55"N 117°28'14"W
