Thurman Munson crash site (Green, Ohio)

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Munson was frequently homesick, and took flying lessons so that he could fly home to his family in Canton on off-days. On August 2, 1979, he was practicing takeoffs and landings in his new Cessna Citation I/SP jet at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport. On the third touch-and-go, Munson failed to lower the flaps for landing and allowed the aircraft to sink too low before increasing engine power, causing the jet to clip a tree and fall short of the runway.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurman_Munson#Death_and_legacy
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Coordinates:   40°55'53"N   81°26'24"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago