Blood On The Door Panels or Spiral Up.

The flat land Pilot from Oklahoma took off out of Cottonwood Arizona with his two hefty passengers... heading for Prescott.

He elected to follow 89 A.. the road below that winds its way from the Verde Valley and up through Jerome and over the top of Mingus Mountain then into the Prescott Valley beyond...  a higher plain.

The Aeroplane  was unable to climb faster then the terrain rose to meet it..  realizing a bit late the Pilot attempted to execute a 180 degree turn near Potato Patch....  sadly his airspeed had already deteriorated as the wings angle of  bank was pilot induced to   increase as did the stall speed along with it..  they then plummeted to their deaths....

I rode in a car to  where they placed the wreckage beside the hanger at Cotton wood airport as a boy...of 13

and had explained to me what had  happened..  as  I was looking at the blood on the door panels.

Moral of the story in perhaps more then one way?

                           IS

Spiral up first before crossing rising terrain.


                                                  Forrest Byron.