Cessna 310 Down in Compton, Calif.

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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...