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A Casa Grande man faked FAA certification when he conducted an inspection of a small airplane that later crash-landed, says a
federal indictment.
Wesley Glen Forsythe, who worked at a maintenance facility at the Casa Grande Muncipal Airport called "The Plane Man," was not a fully qualified airplane mechanic yet still worked on airplanes, the feds say.
On two occasions, Forsythe signed off that he'd comple
Image: Peoria policeMichael Gauchat
The two people who died in a helicopter crash in the northwest Valley on Friday worked for the Peoria Police Department.
Michael Gauchat, 41, had been a police officer with the department since 1990. Donna Collum had been with the city of Peoria since 2000, working first in the fleet department and, in 2003, becoming a police services officer.
Border Patrol agents seized nearly 1200 pounds of marijuana from a truck near Yuma. Agents say they spotted the vehicle using night vision equipment, and used deflation devices to cripple the truck's tires. The driver and passenger fled on foot, leaving behind their haul, which has an estimated street value of almost a million dollars...A man is dead and his son is in critical condition after their small plane crashed in the mountains south of Flagstaff. A Coconino County Sheriff's spokesman
A year after suffering serious burns in an airplane crash, blogger Stephanie Aurora Clark Nielson has posted a photo of her reconstructed face:
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