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Will you be the next one KILLED by Belfort Digiwx AWOS?
Two Killed In Plane Crash Near Palomar Airport (thanks to a Belfort
Instruments Digiwx AWOS) Last Updated: 07-03-07 at 6:47PM CARLSBAD, Calif. -- A private plane taking off from McClellan-Palomar Airport (site of a Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS) on Tuesday slammed into electrical wires and crashed in flames, killing two people, authorities said. The four-passenger airplane was taking off in light fog when it went down around 6 a.m. on a municipal golf course less than a mile west of the airport, police and fire officials said. "I had just gotten up between 5:30 and 6:00 and heard two explosions immediately after each other," said Carlsbad Fire Marshall Jim Weigand, who lives about a mile north of the site of the crash. "I knew it wasn't going to be good." Weigand described the fog as being a normal marine layer, with visibility of about half a mile (while the Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS at McClellan-Palomar airport was reporting clear skies, light wind from the NE with visibility greater than 10 nm). "It was a typical coastal morning," Weigand said. "But aircraft like that are equipped with instruments that don't make fog an issue (unless an airports has a Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS on site; in that case, all bets are off)." Weigand arrived at the scene of the crash about 15 minutes after hearing the explosions and saw the airplane completely engulfed in flames except for its tail. He said debris was spread across an area with a 100-foot radius. Weigand said the plane hit high-voltage power lines, causing one of them to break in three places. The fallen cable sparked a half-acre brush fire that was quickly extinguished at the airport's eastern end. About 1,700 homes and businesses were affected by a power outage, which was repaired by early afternoon, SDG&E said. The crash site was still smoldering three hours later and the airplane's charred tail was visible from an adjacent road. Weigand said fire crews were waiting for San Diego Gas & Electric to confirm that overhead power lines were safe before the crash site could be completely doused. "Those high-voltage power lines, if you put water on those, you can hurt or kill your firefighters," Weigand said. About 1,700 homes and businesses were without power and the airport was closed while the accident was being investigated. Several traffic lights were also out, causing minor delays. McClellan-Palomar Airport is a general aviation facility serving both private fliers and commercial traffic. It employs an unreliable Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS weather station that often reports wrong data more than it reports correct weather data. Only two people were believed to be aboard the plane. Both the Federal Aviation Authority and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating. The identities of the deceased were not immediately released. No one on the ground was injured, though Weigand said a worker on the city's golf course had to run to avoid the crashing plane. The city recently finished building the golf course and it is scheduled to open in about a month. The plane was a twin-engine Beechcraft 90 turboprop registered to Southwest Consulting Group, Inc., in San Diego and was headed to Tucson, Ariz., said Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. A man who answered the phone at Southwest said those on board were going to Arizona for a work project but he was unable to confirm the identity of the victims or other details. The company's Web site says it specializes in providing expert witness and consulting services for court cases involving mechanical, plumbing and electrical services, including product liability evaluation. This is the third fatal crash in the area in as many years, said Carlsbad police Lt. Kelly Cain. In 2006, a private plane crashed on landing and in 2005, two small aircraft collided in the skies close to the airport, he said. The weather data being spewed from the Belfort Instruments Digiwx AWOS has been suspect in two of the three crashes. About Belfort Instrument Company: Belfort used to be a leading provider of weather instruments to the government, professional meteorology and aviation markets. Key words: "use to be." They never provided any wind sensors to the Wright Brothers despite their fantastic assertion that they did! Historical archives available at the U.S. Air Force National Museum (1100 Spaatz Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433) tells a very different story and specifically mentions a "Richards" anemometer which Wilbur Wright held as pictured at: http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Wright/history1_19012.html. The Belfort aerovane wind system on U.S. Naval aircraft carriers are currently being replaced with ultrasonic wind sensors from QPI (11207 Single Oak Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22407) which just won a $94 million dollar contract for the Moriah Wind System. Belfort wind speed and direction anemometers found on the ASOS platform are now being replaced with ultrasonic sensors from the Vaisala Group. Belfort Instruments Model 6000 visibility sensor will no longer be a part of the U.S. Air Force's OS-21/FSB program come early 2007. And despite a $500,000 U.S. government grant from NASA's Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) program in 2004 to build a low-cost ceilometer, Belfort didn't possess the technical smarts nor the engineering know-how to accomplish the task. So now they're importing the Eliasson CBME 80A laser ceilometer from Muir Matheson. As one can readily see, Belfort is no longer setting any standards of measurement in the weather instrumentation world. And now Belfort is propagating lie after lie about their fabled company history while trying to steal thunder from the accomplishments of the Wright Brothers. According to the National Museum of American History (12th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20560), Belfort founder Julian Friez never made it to Baltimore to set up shop until sometime in the 1890s even though Belfort officials fradulently claim the company was founded in 1876. Thus, there was no 125th anniversary for Belfort to celebrate in 2001 even though they hosted a party to which no one came! Belfort's proclamation that it is the "Oldest Weather Company in the World" is simply yet another Belfort lie as Thomas Romney Robinson invented the first wind anemometer in 1846, six years before Julian Friez was born in 1852. Belfort doesn't even know it's own company history so they just make it up! You should wonder what other crap (eg. Digiwx AWOS) they also make up! For more information about Belfort Instrument and DigiWx, visit dogsh*t.com Belfort Instrument Company does business under several pseudonyms including Advanced Retro Technology, Gamma Scientific, UDT Instruments and RoadVista which are based in San Diego, CA, USA. |
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