I own a plane (made in 1968) that was in a mid-air in 1970 over Alabama. This was long before I owned it.
When I was researching the airplane before I bought it, I was astonished to find it in an NTSB report. The damage was minor (some sheet metal, a new propeller, and an engine teardown). The good news was that everyone in both planes survived without injury!
This seemed to me, a very unusual mid-air where evryone was fine.
So where is the spooky part?????????
A couple of months ago, I was flying from northern maine to Massachusetts IFR and working Boston Approach. They called traffic and warned about a similar callsign. I'm N4907J and it turned out that N4906J was on frequency flying the same route in the opposite direction (we were over PSM).
I soon saw an almost identical plane passing safely off my left wing.
Once he was off-frequency, the controller commented on the similar tail number and I said, "I bet he rolled off the assembly line just before me."
Well, when I got home, I Googled the tail number and found an NYSB report about a mid-air
In 1969, the N4906J was in a mid-air on the west coast. Everyone survived that one too!!!
So Two airplaanes. Same model, Same year of manufacture with consecutive tail numbers....
* Both had midairs while in normal cruise
* All planes were able to glide to an airport
* In both cases everyone survived without injury
* In both cases the other plane was a military plane
While I'm glad my plane is pre-disastered, I have to wonder what kind of Karma was floating around the Arrow production line back in 1968!!