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- <head><BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#00FF00" LINK="#00FF00" ALINK="#00AA00" VLINK="#00AA00"><title>OWLMAN</title><pre>The transcript of Jane Dornacker death
- 1st of October 1947 - 22nd of October 1986
- She was 39 at the time of her death
- Written by Clive "James" Python - Or, I think I did
- At 4:44 p.m. 22/Oct/86 Jane Dornacker was in a Enstrom F-28 helicopter, that plunged into the
- Hudson River from an altitude of roughly 75 feet (23 m). On her final radio broadcast she was giving a
- report of an accident involving a tractor-trailer and a car as well as a car fire.
- She also stated that the outbound Holland Tunnel was heavy with traffic and that the
- Lincoln Tunnel was much better. Dornacker was starting her report for incoming New Jersey traffic when
- the helicopter suffered mechanical failure in mid broadcast and crashed.
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- Joey Reynolds: O.K., here's Jane Dornacker now in the N-copter.
- Jane Dornacker: Thank you very much, Joey.
- There was indeed an accident southbound on the Major Deegan at the Mosholu Parkway, an accident, a serious
- accident involving a tractor trailer and a car. It has been pushed off to the shoulder but now watch out there
- now because another flatbed truck is gonna have to come to clear it so yield right of way. Northbound on the
- B.Q.E., we've spotted that disabled vehicle in the right-hand lane before the Kosciuszko, not causing much
- of a backup. But further north down there on the B.Q.E. traffic is very heavy past the Kosciuzko all the way
- over to the L.I.E. The outbound Holland Tunnel extra heavy for you right now.
- Earlier there was a car fire at Hudson and Canal Street.
- It has been cleared of that, uh.
- Heading to New Jersey, the outbound Lincoln Tunnel looks a lot better for you.
- In New Jersey [Pause] Hit the water, hit the water, hit the water
- [Sound of a crash, then static followed by five seconds of dead air.]
- Joey Reynolds: O.K., we're going to play some music here, I think.
- Find out what's going on with the helicopter.
- Something happened there.
- It's a quarter of 5, 16 till 5 on WNBC, on the Joey Reynolds Show, checking an N-copter
- report from Jane Dornacker. We'll check in, see how they're doing here and then we'll come right back at you.
- ["Hip to Be Square" by Huey Lewis and the News plays]
- Reynolds: I hope nothing happened with Jane.
- We had, uh, a helicopter report, from the N-Copter.
- Of course, you know, once before, we had this happen.
- A few months ago, she went down in the, uh, in the drink. Not she, I mean, she has a... pilot.
- Jane is, uh...
- Other voice: Well, until we find out what's going on, we'll just...
- Reynolds: Jane was up there just now giving us a report, and sometimes it just gets cut off, too, you know.
- It's just an electronic thing.
- But, uh, this time she said, uh, "hit the water," or something like that.
- So we're going to find out what's going on there, so stay tuned.
- We hope nothing... say a little prayer, hope nothing's, nothing's wrong.
- That's really a... [deep breath] that's a hard, hard job.
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