Posted on 08/11/2025 3:01:32 PM PDT by Morgana
A plane has crashed on the runway at Kalispell Airport in Montana, triggering a huge fireball and sending smoke billowing into the sky, with two passengers suffering minor injuries.
Shocking video shows a giant fireball exploding into a massive, pillowy cloud of black smoke into the Montana sky.
The small craft was approaching the runway when it burst into flames, with the fire spreading onto the infield of the runway.
Eventually, the plane crashed into a second, stationary plane that was sitting on the runway.
Fortunately, all four passengers survived the collision and only two were being treated for minor injuries, KPAX8 reported.
Nobody was on the second plane that was run into, Kalispell Fire Chief Jay Hagen said.
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Never any good news from the flying industry these days...
My tin foil hat is glowing...
I hate Mondays that start out like this.
Glad there were only minor injuries. Sounds like a miracle.
“…the plane crashed into a second, stationary plane that was sitting on the runway…Nobody was on the second plane that was run into…”
“Oops, I forgot and left my empty plane on the runway. Heh, heh. Stupid me. I shouldn’t have done that?”
They let two female pilots taxi at the same time? Thats asking for an accident!
“Photos shared by local artist Ben Garrison showed huge clouds of black smoke over the airfield”..
Wait.. Ben Garrison? Political right wing cartoonist? Wow.
Everyone in that plane walked away? Burst into flames? Beyond amazing that no one was killed.
🤪 Yup. As a former air traffic controller, I can guarantee, that empty aircraft, was NOT sitting on the runway.
Not. Funny.
Indeed.
It’s a good thing airplanes don’t need to be parallel parked.
I believe Ben Garrison lives near Flathead Lake.
Except there are over 100,000 worldwide commercial flights per day. We only hear about the bad incidents, which are relatively few.
They let two female pilots taxi at the same time? Thats asking for an accident!
Another empty GoGo cage....They should have been at work...
RE: They let two female pilots taxi at the same time?
Radio transcript:
Have to level with you. Take over the maneuvering because I was just hired on an affirmative action quota. I kept hitting the hangar door posts with wings.
Copy that. I was hired after a lawsuit from civil rights groups to fill a quota, too. I never got the hang of this taxiing stuff.
((Crash))
Looks to me like the collision happened outside a hangar. Not the runway.
Last week hundreds of Americans died in car crashes and thousands were injured. But it will never be in the news.
Hmmm...
Yes... Guess I over-reacted...
In fact, the wife and I used to fly, 3-to-4 times a year, to LV, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s...
Then we ended up stuck in LV on 9/11...
Drove a rental car almost halfway back to the East Coast, meeting our oldest son, who drove from Maryland to meet us.
We never flew again...
Interesting! And good eye.
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