Whoa!

"zipfuel" (zipfuel) 03/13/2019 at 19:04 • Filed to: Dashcam, Planelopnik, Code brown

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This was all over the traffic report driving home last night: not everyday there’s a road closure because of a plane on the road...

Now there’s dashcam video and holy heck that was close!

M ercifully nobody was seriously hurt.

So far it sounds like a student pilot was practicing touch and go’s but was a bit late on the go part.

Pretty sure we saw a plane doing the exact same manoeuvre while driving past this airport last month on the way to winter scout camp.

I’m assuming the truck needed a new drivers seat

Just Jeepin' > zipfuel 03/13/2019 at 19:38

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This is why you should never text and drive: imagine missing that happen right in front of you. 

Chariotoflove > zipfuel 03/13/2019 at 19:40

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I’m just going to point out here that the plane in question was an SR20.

That is all.

zipfuel > Chariotoflove 03/13/2019 at 19:41

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Pics or it didn't happen right...

For Sweden > zipfuel 03/13/2019 at 19:48

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General Aviation is a land of wolves

TheRealBicycleBuck > zipfuel 03/13/2019 at 19:49

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Yikes. Runway 33 is roughly 4,000 feet, so they had plenty of room. I wonder what happened.

Ash78, voting early and often > Chariotoflove 03/13/2019 at 19:57

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The same plane pitcher Corey Lidle flew into the side of a building in Manhattan several years ago. Notorious for being the choice of the nouveau riche who just learned to fly, but that’s just the stereotype.

Chariotoflove > Ash78, voting early and often 03/13/2019 at 20:09

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I wouldn’t mind one either if I could afford it .

Captain of the Enterprise > zipfuel 03/13/2019 at 20:25

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I once had a bird fly into  my trucks passenger front door when I was going 100kpm in Canada. I’m glad this guy didn’t have my luck with the plane. 

Ash78, voting early and often > zipfuel 03/13/2019 at 20:37

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At ~ 2,500# it’s about like a Miata, but the mass is more spread out. Unless the engine hit a car straight on, most vehicles would just shrug it off. As scary as they seem, most planes are like aluminum kites compared to cars.

Amazing everyone was basically ok!

zipfuel > For Sweden 03/13/2019 at 21:20

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After Roy Halliday crashed a friend and I stumbled upon the wikipedia page for notable aviation fatalities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatalities_from_aviation_accidents

While theres no shortage of tragedy its also good for a few dark chuckles at the hubris, incompetence and occasional cocaine use found   in t he terse  incident descriptions:  eg

“ CFIT into a volcano”

Although the one to beat is:

“crashed after wing clipped Ozzy Osbourne’s tour bus during ultra-low-level fly-by”

zipfuel > Ash78, voting early and often 03/13/2019 at 21:34

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Yeah there’s not much to a light aircraft but you still wouldn’t want to catch a propellor at   WOT in the drivers window....

zipfuel > Captain of the Enterprise 03/13/2019 at 21:37

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Did you have to duck?

wafflesnfalafel > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/13/2019 at 22:49

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some other vids online indicated they were doing touch and gos, but the “and gos” didn’t entirely pan out...

TheRealBicycleBuck > wafflesnfalafel 03/13/2019 at 23:23

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I saw that. I thought they may have been using a short runway, but they were on 33, which runs from the lower right to the upper left in the map below. The shorter runway is about 2,700 feet which is a little short for touch-and-gos in some airplanes.

When my instructor and I land on a short runway, we taxi back on the taxiway before attempting a take-off. With all that room to do a touch and go on 33 , I’m wondering what went wrong. They may have had engine trouble or didn’t go full throttle soon enough or may have had to dodge birds. I’m looking forward to the rest of the story.

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Chariotoflove 03/14/2019 at 11:40

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That’s an expensive plane to wreck.

Chariotoflove > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 03/14/2019 at 13:12

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It sure isn’t the cheapest thing to train in.