Posted on 06/13/2005 1:04:05 PM PDT by PilloryHillary
No details yet.
Its not an easy plane to fly or maneuver, the pilots must have lots of hours on it to bring it down on the street. It is a plane that has to be manually flown.
I read a great article by a pilot that was part of a 2 plane caravan taking DC-3 from Oakland to Vietnam, via Honolulu, Kiribati, Guam and Bangkok, great article, they would talk to pilots in 747's going overhead to asia and then talk to the same plane hours later on its return trip, while the DC3 was still chugging along.
The right engine looks good, wonder what happened?
And you first heard about it on FR? ;-)
Gee...remember years ago??...when even the THOUGHT of " terrorism" wouldn't have even crossed anyone's mind about the cause of a crash??
If you do not see oil, then you have something to worry about.
Holy Toledo! Just missed some businesses. Amazing photo.
Wow, thanks for the great pics! The pilot is a hero for not hitting any homes. Hope nobody was in the street!
Catastrophic failure on engine one, fuel leak, clip some thing on take-off, cargo shift, cargo ignition, bird strike to the wind shield, etc.
Too early to tell.
MSNBC has the "big guns" out to cover the Jackson trial. So much for the plane crash!
Yeah, if it were a passenger airline, all the crazies would be out now with conspiracy theories!
The pilots did a great job.
Fire trucks now on fire
Thank God. Good work by the crew.
Look again, those are houses!
"Fire trucks now on fire"
???
...probably the center fuel tank....bla, bla, bla
I hope that is just what you said, but not what you meant!
Amazing.
You gotta have priorities, huh?
I'm looking for more info - I know several guys who own DC3s -
More when I know.
Ping?
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