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Plane Crash In San Diego

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The small aircraft plane crash (two colliding with each other) in San Diego today at 4:40 p.m. happened in front of my eyes as I pulled out on the main street near our house in El Cajon, CA to drive Conrad to golf lessons.  I didn’t catch the actual collision but the falling on fire plane parts.  I was dialing 911 so I wasn’t able to snap a picture with my camera phone.  My 911 call didn’t go through (I’m guessing that it was probably pretty overloaded because the crash was pretty visible to many on Interstate 8).  By the time we made it to the street by the fire station, they were starting to roll out to provide help.  I heart goes out to the families who lost love ones.

P.S. I’m writing this from LAX – taking the red eye to DC.  Using the new Cingular access card from work.  I was using Verizon EVDO but had to switch because of contracting issues.  So far so good.  But there isn’t UMTS in LAX apparently so I’m on the slower GSM-something-or-another.

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4 responses to “Plane Crash In San Diego”

  1. Mike M Avatar
    Mike M

    I read about this and as a pilot it’s always sad to hear. There was an emergency landing here in PHX yesterday on a road. Plane is totaled, but all 4 walked away without serious injury. Then I just heard of another plane crashing into a house while doing aerobatics over a populated area (highly against the rules). All very disturbing and saddening.
    I just drove across the country over the weekend using my Treo 650’s GPRS connection (Cingular) as a dial-up netowrking modem connected to my laptop via bluetooth. While it had a few connection problems here and there, I was very impressed with the coverage. I was able to make blog updates and upload photos from the road without a problem as well as an AIM client running most of the way. Cingular’s non UMTS service is called ‘EDGE’.
    I was coming back from working for Nokia in the carolinas updating cingular’s cellular base stations.

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    Mike M

    I read about this and as a pilot it’s always sad to hear. There was an emergency landing here in PHX yesterday on a road. Plane is totaled, but all 4 walked away without serious injury. Then I just heard of another plane crashing into a house while doing aerobatics over a populated area (highly against the rules). All very disturbing and saddening.
    I just drove across the country over the weekend using my Treo 650’s GPRS connection (Cingular) as a dial-up netowrking modem connected to my laptop via bluetooth. While it had a few connection problems here and there, I was very impressed with the coverage. I was able to make blog updates and upload photos from the road without a problem as well as an AIM client running most of the way. Cingular’s non UMTS service is called ‘EDGE’.
    I was coming back from working for Nokia in the carolinas updating cingular’s cellular base stations.

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  3. Steve Holden Avatar
    Steve Holden

    Thanks for the comments. It is good to know that Cingular/AT&T coverage is pretty good throughout the country.
    I am getting pretty good UMTS coverage in San Diego. I wasn’t able to get any at LAX and I was getting very spotty coverage of both UMTS & EDGE at Washington Dulles Airport (IAD).
    I didn’t actually use my work laptop on Thursday night in Rossyln, so I don’t know about UMTS/EDGE service levels there.
    Steve

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    Steve Holden

    Thanks for the comments. It is good to know that Cingular/AT&T coverage is pretty good throughout the country.
    I am getting pretty good UMTS coverage in San Diego. I wasn’t able to get any at LAX and I was getting very spotty coverage of both UMTS & EDGE at Washington Dulles Airport (IAD).
    I didn’t actually use my work laptop on Thursday night in Rossyln, so I don’t know about UMTS/EDGE service levels there.
    Steve

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