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Ron Day said Chad Munden, 38, and Roger Pettit, 30, escaped the facility at about 2:30 p.m. by climbing a perimeter fence.Munden was caught at about 3:30 p.m. by Miami Valley Gaming and faces ...
The last exchange between the First Officer Roger Pettit was telling the captain ‘Larry, we’re going down, Larry.’ Captain Larry Wheaton responded, ‘I know it’ before the plane hit the ...
Wheaton's co-pilot, Roger Pettit, wanted to abort the flight. "God, look at that thing! That don't seem right, does it?" Pettit said, according to tape from the cockpit voice recorder that the FAA ...
The National Transportation Safety Board, concluding an eight-month investigation, said pilot Larry Wheaton of Miami and co-pilot Roger Pettit never should have tried to leave Washington’s ...
"Larry, we're going down, Larry," said First Officer Roger Pettit. — I know it," said Capt. Larry Wheaton. The Boeing 737 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge, shearing off the tops of cars ...
On a snowy day 25 years ago tomorrow, co-pilot Roger Alan Pettit was at the controls of an Air Florida jetliner taking off from Washington National Airport. As the plane rolled down the runway ...
Sgt. Corey Adams with the Warren County Sheriff’s Office said Roger Pettit turned himself in at the Franklin Police Department around 1:30 a.m. Monday. Pettit is now in the Warren County Jail ...
The board concluded that Capt. Larry Wheaton and First Officer Roger Pettit, two young and inexperienced pilots, did not have the plane’s wings properly de-iced. More critically, authorities ...
Beatrix Pettit; and his brother, Roger Pettit of Bloomfield, Iowa. Kim donated his body to The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Deeded Body Program for scientific research.