Joe Frickin' Friday Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Crashing a plane is bad luck by itself, but how bad does your luck have to be to actually crash onto train tracks? With a train coming?? Link to comment
Hosstage Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Saw that this morning on the news. Yup, pretty bad luck. And then really good luck. Link to comment
scout6 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Didn't the Coyote do this at least once? 2 Link to comment
RandyShields Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Kudos to the rescuers who saw what was coming and successfully finished the task at hand! Link to comment
Joe Frickin' Friday Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 1 hour ago, scout6 said: Didn't the Coyote do this at least once? Sure, except the train got him. Link to comment
Dennis Andress Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Some days showing up for work pays off... Link to comment
ESokoloff Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Unlucky for the pilot he crash landed & ended up on train tracks. Lucky for the pilot there was plenty of resources nearby. Note LA City PD Foothill Station & LA County Fire resources circled in red. The point of impact is circled in black. Also note the name of the airport is Whiteman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteman_Airport 1 Link to comment
dduelin Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 From what I understood the pilot made a forced landing. It is visible only for a second but the one visible blade of the prop looks straight indicating the engine wasn't running at landing. I was in his shoes once and just speculation on my part he knew he wasn't going to make the runway so his choices for where to land came down to relatively clear space of a railroad track right of way parallel to the runway or a busy urban street. Again speculating that his heading was somewhat to or from direction of Whiteman's 12/30 runway he choose the railroad track as the best of what Surprise offered up. Sometimes it's just luck or living right or God's grace that shines on us. Link to comment
TEWKS Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Everyone please be careful for the next couple of days. Somebody upstairs (or down ) was fishing and that one got away! 1 Link to comment
TEWKS Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 On 1/10/2022 at 4:40 PM, scout6 said: Didn't the Coyote do this at least once? Yup, it always seemed to end on the tracks. Link to comment
Hosstage Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 3 hours ago, dduelin said: From what I understood the pilot made a forced landing. It is visible only for a second but the one visible blade of the prop looks straight indicating the engine wasn't running at landing. I was in his shoes once and just speculation on my part he knew he wasn't going to make the runway so his choices for where to land came down to relatively clear space of a railroad track right of way parallel to the runway or a busy urban street. Again speculating that his heading was somewhat to or from direction of Whiteman's 12/30 runway he choose the railroad track as the best of what Surprise offered up. Sometimes it's just luck or living right or God's grace that shines on us. That's exactly what happened. Took off, crashed, almost died, didn't die, a good day all in all. Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now