Small plane crash lands on freeway in LA area

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john smith wrote:

Larry Dighera wrote:
The story indicates that the California Highway Patrol estimated the
Bonanza's speed at 90 mph. Wouldn't the pilot have attempted to touch
down at about 50 knots? If not, why not.

The Bo won't fly that slow without power.

When I was flying early Bonanzas, I would use 80 mph as glide speed,
power off. Touchdown was about 60 mph.

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("RST Engineering" wrote)
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In the freeway case, I saw my opening in the lineup of cars, came across
each of them at about 80 knots at 50' agl or so and gave them a chance to
slow up, which they did. I then slowed up to 50 to hit my opening, but
didn't count on the clapped-out Datsun in the right lane going uphill with
six kids in the back at (generously) 30 mpg.


And the rest of the story ....is?

Was the Datsun Green? :-)


Montblack
Owned a used 1984 Datsun/Nissan Stanza - most of the badging on the car had
both names, since they were switching corporate identities at the time.
Always thought that was weird. It was my winter beater ..."Datsun/Nissan."

No, the Datsun was babypoop brown. The rest of the story is that I got as
far over into the left lane as I could to avoid hitting her with the strut
and took the left wing off with the bridge abutment in the center of the
freeway. Airplane began a counterclockwise roll (lift on the right wing, no
lift on the left missing wing) and completed half a roll before coming to
rest inverted on the opposite side of the freeway.

Jim



I then slowed up to 50 to hit my opening, but
didn't count on the clapped-out Datsun in the right lane going uphill
with six kids in the back at (generously) 30 mpg.


And the rest of the story ....is?

Was the Datsun Green? :-)

George wrote:

I found several references to 1952 C35s. No As or Vs.

Oh, well. There go my journalistic career hopes.

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Peter

Three Florida Planes Crash Over Weekend
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A pilot in Florida died after his plane crashed into a Florida school.
The sea plane clipped the roof of a Sarasota Elementary School Saturday
and then burst into flames.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the Seawind 3000 was on its way
to Venice from Sarasota.
The pilot reported a problem and tried to turn back .
There were no reports of injuries on the ground.
Investigators haven't determined what caused the crash.
The Seawind 3000 is a fixed-wing, single engine kit plane with a
propeller.


Meanwhile, Panama City Police say a pilot flipped a Cessna plane upside
down as
he attempted an emergency landing in a gulf coast community college
parking lot Sunday.
Police say the pilot was the only person on board and was uninjured.
He was still learning to the fly the Cessna 172.
Police say he tried to land at the school after he noticed a problem with
a fuel gauge.


And still another plane crash this weekend, this time when a student pilot
and his instructor had to make an emergency landing on an access road near
a Collier County Shopping Plaza Sunday.
Officials say the engine of their single-engine Cessna suddenly stopped.
The student pilot escaped uninjured, and the instructor was treated for a
minor hand injury.

"Skylune" wrote in message

Meanwhile, Panama City Police say a pilot flipped a Cessna plane upside
down as
he attempted an emergency landing in a gulf coast community college
parking lot Sunday.
Police say the pilot was the only person on board and was uninjured.
He was still learning to the fly the Cessna 172.
Police say he tried to land at the school after he noticed a problem with
a fuel gauge.


I HATE to respond in anyway to this troll but I doubt the troll or the
reporter got this one right.

I mean was the thought process...

"Oh no, the fuel guage says I'm out of gas. I mus land right this second."

Young Charles Redmond was understandably shaken, but how would he have
been "squashed like a bug" by an aluminum airplane that weighs less
than 75% of the Jeep he was driving? Just the same, I hope I never have
to attempt a dead-stick landing on a highway in traffic - too much
potential for an unhappy ending

wrote:
Young Charles Redmond was understandably shaken, but how would he have
been "squashed like a bug" by an aluminum airplane that weighs less
than 75% of the Jeep he was driving?

A ton of aluminum will squash you just as effectively as a ton of lead.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.