On 2 Apr 2007 05:05:44 -0700, "bobandcarole"
<bobandcarole100@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Apr 2, 7:59?am, anonymous pedophile troll George Orwell
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>Who cares? It's gone now........
Afraid of the truth, bo0by tries to hide it.
Pilot talked to ex-wife before crash
By TOM DAVIES, Associated Press Writer 35 minutes ago
BEDFORD, Ind. - Eric Johnson told his ex-wife, "You're not going to
get her," shortly before the small plane he was piloting with his
8-year-old daughter crashed into his former mother-in-law's house,
killing them both.
The mother-in-law, Vivian Pace, wasn't injured and told reporters
outside her damaged home Tuesday about the phone call.
She said her daughter, Beth Johnson, was worried after young Emily
didn't show up for school after a weekend vacation with her father.
She finally reached Eric Johnson by cell phone shortly before the
crash.
"I've got her, and you're not going to get her," he told her,
according to Pace.
Johnson, a student pilot who had soloed before, had taken off in a
leased, single-engine Cessna from a southern Indiana airport near
Bloomington on Monday morning. Less than two hours later, officials
said, the plane smashed into a wall of Pace's home.
Andrew Todd Fox of the National Transportation Safety Board declined
to say if Johnson, 47, said anything over the plane's radio before the
crash. The airport has no controller on duty, so no recording was
available of any communication, he said.
Pace believes the crash was deliberate.
"That was the only way he could hurt Beth. That was the only way he
could get to her," she said.
State and Bedford police were treating the case as a suicide and
homicide, State Police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said. He said they had
yet to find any notes indicating Johnson's intentions with the flight,
but the fact that the house was his ex-wife's mother's home raised
serious questions.
"All of those things together lead us in the direction that this was
done intentionally," Bursten said Tuesday.
The couple had divorced in November after 12 years of marriage, Pace
said.
Beth Johnson went to the Bedford Police Department the morning of the
crash to file a missing person report, police Maj. Dennis Parsley said
Tuesday.
She gave officers no indication of any threats against Emily, Parsley
said, and told police that her ex-husband, a property manager for the
state Department of Natural Resources, had recently taken the girl to
Cancun for a few days of vacation.
"(Emily) was to spend the weekend with dad, and dad was supposed to
bring her to school Monday morning," Parsley said.
Fox said Tuesday that investigators were looking at whether the plane
was functioning properly and hoped to have a preliminary report within
a week.
At Parkview Primary School in Bedford, where Emily was a first-grader,
counselors were called in to help the students, Principal Sari Wood
said Tuesday.
"We're all grieving over this," Wood said. She described Emily as a
"dear little girl" who "got a kick out of things and enjoyed life."
"She just was one of those really friendly, really open little kids,"
Wood said.
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