The flying weekend at Oconee

If the single engine plane which crashed Friday had reached the point of landing at the Oconee Regional Airport, an official says, that airport—even without an instrument landing system—could have accommodated a safe landing.  Scott Moulder, county administrator, this morning expressed the kind of sadness that the Oconee community feels with the crash near Westminster and the deaths of all four airplane occupants. “We still don’t know the cause,” he said.  Federal investigators have the duty to investigate for the cause, and one angle they most likely will pursue is whether there was a smell of fuel at the scene.  No smell could be an indicator that the plane ran out of fuel.  The soggy, foggy and windy weekend also meant fewer planes landed and took off from the airport as part of the visiting throng of Clemson-Notre Dame football fans.