Search for downed aircraft near Gene Autry Park, Mesa AZ
Search & RescueUnits are conducting a search near Gene Autry Park and nearby orange groves after reports of a downed aircraft west of the airfield near McDowell and Greenfield. Multiple teams are coordinating to locate the possible crash site but have not yet found any evidence.
Audio|Source: Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management
03:38
Transcript:
00:00
Are you guys checking out the ball fields over by training just past McDowell and Greenfield?
00:10
So we just went south on Greenfield down to Brown.
00:14
We didn't see anything.
00:15
We'll start heading that way towards McDowell.
00:19
Okay, copy that.
00:22
Command to ladder 214.
00:24
I'm sorry.
00:25
Battalion 203 to ladder 214.
00:29
9214.
00:31
You guys take the freeway up to Greenfield and come in from that direction.
00:36
See if you see anything written multiple reports where this might be located.
00:42
Copy, we'll be taking the freeway and we'll get off of Greenfield.
00:49
Coming from the west on the Calyx, we're going to go up Val Vista to the 202 and head east so we can cover that north area between Val Vista and Haley.
01:02
Battalion 203, I copy that Ken.
01:04
That sounds like a good plan.
01:06
I'm sure you've heard we're getting multiple reports that is probably somewhere west of the airfield, but we're having trouble locating.
01:19
We're heading that in that direction.
01:21
Is there anything you could advise that would assist with your search on this side? We're heading north on Valvista.
01:27
We're almost on McTowell.
01:28
Why don't you stay around the McDowell Greenfield area? We don't have anybody there right now.
01:40
We'll cover the north recon and then we got units to the south and the east reconning.
01:44
That'll cover all four bases around there for.
01:52
You contact the tower and see if you can get a little more information.
01:55
Did they visually see an aircraft go down and what direction it was from the airfield? We basically, you know, one-mile area doing recon, unable to locate.
02:11
I copy. Contacting the tower now.
02:18
Bump2903.
02:19
The last report said that somebody saw it go down over near Climate Park near the ball fields.
02:27
Okay, copy that.
02:29
We're heading in that direction now and I've got, it looks like, engine 208 and engine 2025 in front of me.
02:35
Are you reconning the Orange Grove? Make sure that this didn't go down in the Orange Grove, like the last couple.
02:48
Engine 201.
02:49
Sea Deck 3.
02:51
Fuel Spill Miner.
02:53
East Fargo Circle.
02:55
Engine 201.
02:57
Cedecke 3.
03:03
On the Grove Field, north of McKellips, down the canal.
03:07
I didn't see anything that way.
03:08
We're still checking the park right now, but don't see anything.
03:19
Under 263. C-deck 4.
03:27
Battalion 203.
03:28
It sounds like it might be in the orange groves that is actually just east of Gene Autry Park.
03:33
Somebody saw the plane turn above the field and head down into that area.
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Location mentioned:
Gene Autry Park, 4125 E McKellips Rd, Mesa, AZ 85205
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