Small plane crashes after close call with P-3

Navy Times ^ | March 18, 2002 | AP Staff

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

WHIDBEY ISLAND NAVAL AIR STATION, Wash.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Unlike the plane carrying the Army's Golden Knighta, this story has a happy ending. Everybody lived and the guys in the crashed plane had minor injuries only.

[Dog Gone]

Any Chinese dudes in the Cessna?

[fire and forget]

Talk about a close call. Thank God everyone came out alright.

[doug from upland]

If there are, I call my son-in-law and tell him to take them of them.

[Dog Gone]

Thanks. We need to react quickly to these opportunities.

[Poohbah]

Let me guess...the BugSmasher pilot is a distant relative of Wong Wei...

[ExSES]

Prop wash from a P-3 Orion on the tarmac flipped a Cessna 152 behind it at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, said spokeswoman Kim Martin.

While the A/C Controller should have (perhaps they did?) warned of wake turbulence, the PIC is responsible!

Hey, I once did a "go around" at Dulles when landing behind a Air France Concord. Lil' planes proceed at risk behind big'uns!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Back two or three years ago, a small plane went down due to wake turbulence and wound up hanging upside-down from some powerlines by one wheel. Anybody got the pic?

[T. P. Pole]

Am I reading this right? They were both on the ground in line to take off? Strange to call it a crash.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

You know, I read this over and I'm not sure. It sounds like the P-3 was on the ground, and I'm not sure about the small plane. Maybe the small plane taxied behind the P-3 and got flipped.

[USNBandit]

If you are talking about the guy hanging from the power lines at Boeing field. He was trying to go around for another approach and didn't climb high enough before starting his downwind turn.

Friend of mine was the city attorney trying to get the bum to reimburse the city for the cost of saving his sorry ass. There were a lot of inconsistencies in his story about how he ended up in those power lines

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Oh, okay. So I take it he was grasping for excuses when he blamed wake turbulence. Sounds like he didn't want to admit that he screwed up good.

[Cindy]

Does anyone know anything about this plane crash>

WRAL.com: "INVESTIGATION CONTINUES INTO PLANE CRASH, TV TOWER COLLAPSE" (031802) (ARTICLE NOTE: "The pilot, David Dollar, 27, of Durham died.")