Posted on 11/13/2023 12:36:38 PM PST by DFG
A plane attempted an emergency landing at a Texas airport before it crashed through a fence and plowed into a car on the busy highway nearby.
The spectacular crash happened around 12.30pm Saturday near Aero Country Airport in McKinney. Miraculously, neither the two people in the plane nor the single individual in the car involved suffered serious injuries.
According to McKinney Fire and the Federal Aviation Administration, a pilot flying a single-engine Lancair IV-P Propjet attempted an emergency landing, narrowly missing the end of the runway.
'I looked over and saw a bunch of smoke come out from the tires,' said Jack Schneider, a pilot and aerospace engineer who witnessed the crash.
Schneider, who drove from Kansas to McKinney to pick up a jet, recorded the moment the plane barreled through a fence at the end of the runway.
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I just took a look on Google Earth, and I don’t know if that’s FM 546 in the closeup of the plane and car. Looks way too narrow. Also, the fence along 546 is completely different, and I can’t find where those houses are. Doesn’t matter, I suppose, but to me that road looks more like a residential street.
Holy bent tree, Batman!
There is no excuse to locate an airport with a runway end anywhere near a road, and there is no excuse to build any kind of road that close to a runway.
Such a shitshow would never be allowed anywhere else in ICAO.
Holy staged photo, Batman!
The regulators should never have allowed them to extend that runway.
Also, it was NOT an emergency landing because there is no such thing.
If the engine was out it was a forced landing. If the engine was running it was a precautionary landing. In either case, this started as a landing and ended as a crash.
That’s the media for you.
That’ll buff right out.
Watch the TikTok challenges that will develop from this.
(What a sad thing for me to foresee.)
I said KILL the engine. Not KEEL it!
Ooopss... Should’a hung a left at Albuquerque.
There is a company retrofitting these Iv-Ps in to a way nicer kit...
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/lx7-a-thoroughly-reworked-lancair-iv-p/
Were you looking at McKinney National Airport?
Try Aero Country Airport instead.
33.2084374 N,-96.7450297 W
I’m not sure which road it is though.
The guy might be a Ryanair pilot?
Came in just a little to hot!
How fortunate their reporter just happened to be able to find a witness who knew exactly how fast a Lancair could be going and still manage to stop.
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