Stealth Pilot wrote in
:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:54:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

"JGalban via AviationKB.com" u32749@uwe wrote in
news:8743a415138a6@uwe:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

It has to be the truck in the background!
No way an airplane is going to do that much damage unless it hit the
truck at very high speed and pretty much obliterated itself...


Nope. That's the one that the Mooney hit. A Mooney mechanic
friend took
a look at the pics and he figures that it was a combination of the
mass of the engine, plus the sturdy steel cage in the Mooney.

BTW, the plane did hit the truck at a pretty high speed. He had
firewalled
it to attempt a go-around about 500 ft. before impact. He was
pretty close to takeoff speed.


Ah, OK. i hadn't expected the engine to have been part of the
accident, really. Even then, that's an amazing amount of damage. It's
kind of the equivelant of a beercan hitting a dumpster except for the
engine. Amazing the occupants of the Mooney weren't killed.


Bertie

amazes me that there are no prop strike marks on the truck.
considering that it was almost airborne.
curiouser and curiouser.


Yeah, I agree. It just doesn't look like an airplane hit it. It looks
more like it lived in Oklahoma for a while.


Bertie