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Conditions or what a pilot would typically call vfr conditions where they are using ground references for navigation but the weather was really bad. the visibility was low. there was mist, there was fog. and there is, of course, high terrain to the north and authority east of the airport. and that is a concern that they may have struck some of that high terrain. we are talking about no flight plan filed, no contact with air traffic controllers, took a long time for rescuers to get n we understand that there was a doctor in the area and that local community people came in and tried to help and extract the survivors from that plane. let s talk about the otter because i have been told that it has a very good glide ability. so it could have been touched down if the plane were in difficulty? that s somewhat true, andrea. this airplane was equipped with with floats it had been modified, the original airplane back in the 50s had a radial engine on it had been mod foifd a turboprop engine ....

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