Interesting pic

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.

Stealth (fishy) pilot

Stealth Pilot wrote in
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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

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"JGalban" u32749@uwe wrote in news:8738babbddf4f@uwe:

A backcountry newb in a Mooney managed to land long and plow into a
pickup
truck at an Idaho backcountry strip. I saw the Mooney after the
crash and it was bent, but mostly intact. My real surprise came when
I flew into the strip and saw the truck :

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_0738.jpg

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_0737.jpg

Yikes! Somebody up there must have been watching out for this
pilot. He
and his passenger both lived.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


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...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk



Yeah, that was real helpful, Captain Youtube.

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Stealth Pilot wrote in
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:54:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:


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


Well we will all reserve our final opinion of the situation pending your
joint decision on the incident.

Be sure and let us know when you two have finished your professional
investigation (of the photograph).

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:07:51 -0500, "Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net
wrote:


"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Stealth Pilot wrote in
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:54:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:


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


Well we will all reserve our final opinion of the situation pending your
joint decision on the incident.

Be sure and let us know when you two have finished your professional
investigation (of the photograph).


clueless non aviation wannabe.

"Stealth Pilot" wrote

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

Considering that a run-of-the-mil prop is advancing close to 6 feet per
revolution, and that the plane was nearly at take-off speed, that would give
a 3 foot advance before one of the two blades would hit anything.

From that wretched wreck, it would be hard to see if the prop hit one time,
or even two, and after that, there probably wouldn't be any prop left to hit
anything, if you know what I mean!
--
Jim in NC

On Jul 17, 3:37*pm, "JGalban via AviationKB.com" u32749@uwe wrote:
More_Flaps wrote:

Hmm, no engine in the truck?

* It's in there. *It's just that the radiator assembly is folded back on top
of it. *You can see the air cleaner housing peaking out.


Is it your photo -did you see the engine? The pattern of damage looks
very strange for a collision with a plane -why did the truck get
neatly turned around? What was the reg of the plane?

Cheers

"JGalban" wrote ...
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.


Mooney has a steel cage?

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"JGalban" u32749@uwe wrote in news:8738babbddf4f@uwe:

A backcountry newb in a Mooney managed to land long and plow into
a pickup
truck at an Idaho backcountry strip. I saw the Mooney after the
crash and it was bent, but mostly intact. My real surprise came
when I flew into the strip and saw the truck :

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_0738.jpg

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...r/IMG_0737.jpg

Yikes! Somebody up there must have been watching out for this
pilot. He
and his passenger both lived.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


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...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk



Yeah, that was real helpful, Captain Youtube.


You're welcome lieutenant fjukkkktard.



Bertie

"Maxwell" luv2^fly99@cox.^net wrote in news:NCGfk.20661$%q.44
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Stealth Pilot wrote in
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:54:03 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip

wrote:


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


Well we will all reserve our final opinion of the situation pending
your
joint decision on the incident.


Good decision.

Be sure and let us know when you two have finished your professional
investigation (of the photograph).


OK, will do lieutenant fjukktard.



Bertie