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PostPosted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:45 pm 
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Anyone know where the accident report is.


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Here you go:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 19721231-1

I read about that accident in a biography of Clemente; all they recovered of him was one sock :cry: .

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Somewhere I read a long magazine article about a few years after it happend. Very interesting.

He should never had been on that plane.

I've got all my RC autographed stuff from the olden days.

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