"He's helped me out of a lot of binds," Thomas said of Roy, whose name does not appear on USAir's list of survivors. CHICAGO TRIBUNE. He was traveling alone, but relatives have now joined him at the hospital, officials said.Transportation Secretary Federico Pena said he visited survivors and families awaiting word of missing loved ones. VICTIMS OF USAIR FLIGHT 427. Then the next thing I know we was on the ground sliding, and everything was flying right by me. "The Charlotte airport does not have a newly developed wind shear-detecting Doppler radar, but has an older low-level wind shear alert system (LLWAS) that uses sensors placed around the airport grounds.
An additional 14 passengers suffered serious injuries, and one had minor injuries.The airport's previous major incident was twenty years earlier, The NTSB immediately dispatched an investigation team, which recovered the CVR and FDR from the plane's wreckage.Captain Greenlee had 8,065 flight hours, including 1,970 hours on the DC-9. Within what seemed an instant, he was skidding through the Carolina woods and stumbling through burning wreckage. Rapoport Weisberg & Sims P.C. The survivors were "in good spirits, obviously happy to be alive," but he said talking to those still waiting was agonizing.Pena said his main purpose in flying to Charlotte was to be certain that officials, medical examiners in particular, have all the resources they need. SurvivorsDEMARY, Richard, 28, flight attendant from Coraopolis, Pa.FORCHT, Karen, 27, flight attendant from New Brighton, Pa.GREENLEE, Michael R., 38, captain from St. Paris, Ohio.MARKWITH, Shelly, 28, flight attendant from Annapolis, Md.TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. BATES, Velma, Columbia, S.C. BOWLES, Christopher, Lexington, S.C. USAir Flight 1016 was on its final approach to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport when it encountered a wind sheer problem. The following is a list of the passengers on USAir Flight 1016, as provided by the airline: Dead. He said he thinks his friend, Steven Roy of Phoenix, is dead. On July 2, 1994, USAir Flight 1016 was en route to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport traveling from Columbia, South Carolina. We've been very close together for a long time. "When it first hit, I thought he was on the runway," Thomas said. USAir Flight 1016 was a regularly scheduled flight in the southeastern United States, between Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Everybody was either buried or not there. An additional 14 passengers suffered serious injuries, and one had minor injuries.The airport's previous major incident was twenty years earlier, The NTSB immediately dispatched an investigation team, which recovered the CVR and FDR from the plane's wreckage.Captain Greenlee had 8,065 flight hours, including 1,970 hours on the DC-9. The crash and ensuing fire caused 37 fatalities and seriously injured sixteen others. Airport sensors indicated it hit the south end of the runway about the same time Flight 1016 was breaking off its approach at the north end.A preliminary reading of the cockpit voice recorder and control tower tapes showed that Flight 1016 hit heavy rain on its descent and eight seconds later told the tower it was "on the go," or aborting. At 18:42 EDT, the DC-9 touched down in a field within the airport boundary, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the Of the 52 passengers on board, 37 died due to blunt force trauma, burns from the fire, or carbon monoxide inhalation. as a USAir jet spun out of control and dove about a mile nose first to the ground, killing all 132 people aboard. USAir Flight 1016 was a regularly scheduled flight in the southeastern United States, between Columbia, South Carolina, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Larry Grondin, 41, of Nashua, N.H., and his boss, John Kupchun, 52, had planned to return from the Chicago machine tool show on another USAir flight. BATES, Velma, Columbia, S.C. BOWLES, Christopher, Lexington, S.C. "USAir Chairman Seth Schofield told reporters that the plane "was very close to the runway at a very low altitude" when the crew decided to abort and try another landing. CHARLOTTE, N.C., JULY 3 -- Robert Thomas of Phoenix was dozing as USAir Flight 1016 descended through a bumpy sky when he felt the DC-9's jet engines roar to life. . The DC-9 was carrying five crew members and 52 passengers. The following is a list of the passengers on USAir Flight 1016, as provided by the airline: Dead. A plane landing ahead of Flight 1016 reported smooth air.Schofield said the crew was experienced -- the captain had 8,065 hours of flying time and the first officer a relatively high 12,984 hours -- and both were fully trained to detect and avoid wind shear. First officer Hayes had 12,980 flight hours, including 3,180 hours on the DC-9. At 18:42 EDT, the DC-9 touched down in a field within the airport boundary, about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) from the Of the 52 passengers on board, 37 died due to blunt force trauma, burns from the fire, or carbon monoxide inhalation. : 1 On July 2, 1994, the flight encountered heavy thunderstorms and microburst-induced windshear while attempting to land, and crashed into heavy trees and a private residence near the airport. Baum Hedlund has an 18-year aviation history of having litigated more than 60 commercial aviation crashes including serving on the plaintiffs’ steering committee and trial team for the consolidated cases resulting from the 1994 Charlotte crash of US Airways Flight 1016. . According to trauma surgeon Mike Thomason, most of the 20 survivors among the 57 passengers and crew had relatively minor injuries.