Paul Rosales sent me these emails last night. Apparently Bill Bishop from the Houston, TX area. Thoughts/prayers for a quick recovery.
From: Paul A. Rosales
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:51 PMTo: Doug ReevesSubject: Fw: Crash...
Hi All, I called my friends who were supposed to be on their way back from Mexico, and, yes, it was one of the pilots. Bill Hicks and Bill Bishop from Texas (Bill-squared from the Bahamas trip report), were here in our home last Sat/Sun then departed Big Bear for San Diego enroute to Mexico on a flying vacation. It was Bill Bishop's RV-6A that went down. We just celebrated his 79th birthday last Sunday at Big Bear with Gary & Robin, 'Hog', Mark & Trish Aguas.
I talked VERY briefly with Bill Hicks (his cell phone was fading) at 9pm, and he told me Bill Bishop was in surgery with two broken legs and a broken arm. They had flown to Mexico in Hick's RV-6A (1-ship) and had cleared customs back into the USA and were heading home. Bishop always follows Hicks, and Hicks has no idea of what happened other than #2 ship (Bishop) wasn't there.
I will post more info as I hear it. Rosie
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To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [SoCAL-RVlist] RV6 down on Otay Mtn
I called work when I got word tonight that it was an RV and got the story. So here's what they told me...
Flight of 2 coming back from Mexico. Stopped at SDM to clear customs, ate lunch and departed to the east. They were on their way back to Arizona. About 10 minutes after departure the lead plane could not raise his buddy and turned around for SDM. Weather was not good and low ceilings along the route. Lead goes to Customs and said that he lost his friend and Customs called work. We sent out a police helicopter to check out an ELT and apparently a news chopper found him sitting on the side of Mt San Miguel first. They pulled the RADAR data and he never got higher than 900'. Hummm??? His injuries were reported as broken bones and lucky to be alive...It was not a local pilot and I wont give out the C/S in a mass email, but I did not know this brother of ours.
Ed Perry
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4409122/detail.htmlhttp://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4409122/detail.htmlhttp://www.10news.com/news/4408786/detail.html
[url="http://www.10news.com/news/4408786/detail.html"]http://www.10news.com/news/4408786/detail.html[/url]
Does not say much more than we already know.
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From:To:Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: Crash...
I just got off the phone with Customs and they said that he was taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital via the CDF rescue chopper (UH-1). I called the hospital and they said that they did not have any information on him, but that if he was still in surgery the only people that could release information on his condition or location was family. If you want to try later the hospital phone number is 619 294-8111.
Sorry that's all I could get out of them, our thoughts are with him
Ed
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:51 PMTo: Doug ReevesSubject: Fw: Crash...
Hi All, I called my friends who were supposed to be on their way back from Mexico, and, yes, it was one of the pilots. Bill Hicks and Bill Bishop from Texas (Bill-squared from the Bahamas trip report), were here in our home last Sat/Sun then departed Big Bear for San Diego enroute to Mexico on a flying vacation. It was Bill Bishop's RV-6A that went down. We just celebrated his 79th birthday last Sunday at Big Bear with Gary & Robin, 'Hog', Mark & Trish Aguas.
I talked VERY briefly with Bill Hicks (his cell phone was fading) at 9pm, and he told me Bill Bishop was in surgery with two broken legs and a broken arm. They had flown to Mexico in Hick's RV-6A (1-ship) and had cleared customs back into the USA and were heading home. Bishop always follows Hicks, and Hicks has no idea of what happened other than #2 ship (Bishop) wasn't there.
I will post more info as I hear it. Rosie
----- Original Message -----
From:
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: [SoCAL-RVlist] RV6 down on Otay Mtn
I called work when I got word tonight that it was an RV and got the story. So here's what they told me...
Flight of 2 coming back from Mexico. Stopped at SDM to clear customs, ate lunch and departed to the east. They were on their way back to Arizona. About 10 minutes after departure the lead plane could not raise his buddy and turned around for SDM. Weather was not good and low ceilings along the route. Lead goes to Customs and said that he lost his friend and Customs called work. We sent out a police helicopter to check out an ELT and apparently a news chopper found him sitting on the side of Mt San Miguel first. They pulled the RADAR data and he never got higher than 900'. Hummm??? His injuries were reported as broken bones and lucky to be alive...It was not a local pilot and I wont give out the C/S in a mass email, but I did not know this brother of ours.
Ed Perry
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4409122/detail.htmlhttp://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/4409122/detail.htmlhttp://www.10news.com/news/4408786/detail.html
[url="http://www.10news.com/news/4408786/detail.html"]http://www.10news.com/news/4408786/detail.html[/url]
Does not say much more than we already know.
---- Original Message -----
From:To:Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: Crash...
I just got off the phone with Customs and they said that he was taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital via the CDF rescue chopper (UH-1). I called the hospital and they said that they did not have any information on him, but that if he was still in surgery the only people that could release information on his condition or location was family. If you want to try later the hospital phone number is 619 294-8111.
Sorry that's all I could get out of them, our thoughts are with him
Ed
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