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![]() wrote in message ... On Apr 13, 6:04 pm, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote: On Apr 13, 3:52 pm, Larry Dighera wrote: Thankfully, there was no fire. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...,3190581.story 5 hurt as small plane crashes in Compton By Richard Winton and Carla Hall, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers April 13, 2008 Five people were injured, four critically, Saturday afternoon when a twin-engine aircraft crashed nose first into a Compton house and sliced into the one next door with one of its wings, authorities said. The Cessna 310 crashed just before 4 p.m. in the 500 block of West Cypress Street, said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane, which was registered in Nevada, was heading from San Diego to Hawthorne Municipal Airport, Gregor said. It was about a mile and a half away from Compton/Woodley Airport, a general aviation field, but he said it was unclear whether the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing. Compton Deputy Fire Chief Marcel Melanson said two of the injured were the plane's occupants and three were on the ground. ... He and two other people tried to open the door of the badly damaged house but couldn't get it to budge. They helped the young woman out a window, and when she said her mother was inside, they clambered through the window themselves to search for her. "I saw the pilot, so we got him out," Wyatt said. Then he spotted one of the residents of the house moving under the rubble. Several people struggled to move that man out of the home through a sliding-glass door. "You could smell the fumes," said Wyatt, his jeans stained with the blood of the injured whom he helped. ... So what happens now? Does the homeowner sue the pilot or the plane owner? Can they? Remember that old homeowner insurance rider you could get to cover an airplane falling on your house? Who pays for that mess? Ken My best guess is that the homeowner and his insurance agents will sue the pilot, the owner, the FBO that last handled the aircraft, the pilot's last two instructors, the person who did the last annual, the manufacturers of the airplane, props, engines, and vacuum pump (even though the pump was working at the time, etc., etc., etc. They will also blame the airports they took off from and intended to land at, and try to close them down. you forgot they should sue Parker because once upon a time they made vacuum pumps, and they paid even though they were not a contributing factor... |
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