Crash land: The Cessna plane lands on the pile of portable loos
Posted on 05/03/2009 4:35:37 AM PDT by yankeedame
With his plane stalling at 150 feet, and no time to return to the runway, the pilot of a Cessna 182 was probably in need of the toilet.
Luckily, he found a whole pile of them, and the crash landing on top of piles of portable loos probably saved his life.
The Cessna 182 crashed on Friday afternoon in Washington state after taking off from Thun Field, an airfield owned by Pierce County southeast of Tacoma.
Crash land: The Cessna plane lands on the pile of portable loos
The plane was about 150 feet (45 meters) in the air when the engine quit. Sheriff's spokesman said the pilot tried to turn around to land but didn't quite make it. The plane hit a fence, flipped over and landed upside down on top of the portable toilets standing in a storage yard. The pilot, whose identity has not been released, was able to walk away apparently unharmed.
Landing: The pilot, who has not been identified, was able to walk
away from the wreckage
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Well, that stinks.
yes, i’ll be the first to write...”what a crappy landing.”
Oh, cut the guy some slack. He was probably carrying a heavy load.
We must assume that his engine was stalling and not his plane.
LOL ... but not really. Any landing you can walk away from isn’t crappy :-)
No, it probably really means that the plane stalled. “Stall” in aviation speak refers to a condition where there is not enough lift to keep the plane flying. This may happen as a result of engine failure, although even with engine failure it is possible to glide the plane to the ground without stalling. Stalling may also happen due to pilot error, typically on take off or landing.
In my book, any landing you walk away from is a GOOD landing.
If you can use the plane again, it’s a GREAT landing!
this is a fan hits the s#!+ story
Was anyone in the loo when the plane crashed?
If the plane had stalled at 150 ft. the pilot would not have “landed” on anything. He would have impacted the ground nose down at about 150 kts.
Given the condition of the aircraft and the fact that the pilot walked away from it, it appears as though he made a nice no power landing at about 45-50 kts or less.
I’ll bet his face was a little flushed.
Outhouses cushion small plane crash in Wash state
Anchorage Daily News | May 2nd, 2009 08:05 AM
Posted on 05/02/2009 11:34:46 AM PDT by skeptoid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2242813/posts
Upside down is not a nice dead stick landing. He probably made the classic error of trying to turn around at too low of an altitude instead of just going straight ahead and landing it off the runway.
Of course, it is too early to tell, but impacting upside down and surviving (with the port a potty breaking the fall) suggests to me that he tried to turn too steeply, a wing stalled, and he flipped over and the impacted the port a pottys.
Never mind, I should have read more before surmising what happened.
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