Mooney M20
Posted on 09/17/2002 1:45:17 PM PDT by BullDog108
Updated: 1:40 p.m. PDT September 17, 2002
CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Two personal aircraft have collided midair near Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, 10News reported.
10News has reported that at least one person was aboard each plane.
The accident happened around 1 p.m. northwest of the airport, near Cannon Road and Faraday Avenue.
Carlsbad emergency crews are responding to the scene, but initial reports have said that there are no injuries on the ground.
It is unknown how many, if any, injuries or deaths have occurred as a result of the crash.
This story is breaking, please check back for updates.
Sky10 has been sent to the scene, as well as crews from the 10News newsroom. Watch 10News Live @ 5 p.m. for a full report.
How about the TV commentator who said that there were many new babies who will never know the father or mother that they lost when the World Trade Center Towers went down?
There was an article on FR a while back about a plane that took off and flew without the pilot after he got out to check something just before takeoff. I searched and couldn't find it, but I thought that it might be used in defense of the idiot reporter. "There's not always at least one person on the plane."
If anyone can find the article and post it, I would appreciate it.
About 1995-6, a pilot was hand-proppoing his small plane at Urbana-Grimes (OH) without having a friend standing on the brakes. The engine started and before the pilot could enter the a/c it took off all by itself. It flew for something like 2 hours before running out of fueld and crashing.
I took my flight instruction at Mad River, the next airport south. A scary flying moment occured when, having announced my intentions to land on 27 (on a hazy morning)and being 1/4 mile from the runway, I hear another pilot announce he's starting his takeoff roll on 09.
We squared things *real* fast.
Call me crazy... but isn't that kind of assumed?
Mooney M20
Now there is an intellegent reporter for you. Yikes, What passes for reporting these days...
In this case a parachute would have done no good. The time it would have taken to get out and deploy a parachute was too short at the altitude these planes were flying (about 1000 feet).
Note: I am listening to the Palomar Airport tower right now and an airplane there just reported a bird strike to its windshield. Apparently not serious enough to cause an accident but it makes you think the karma around that airport is not too good right now.
These parachutes are designed to be usable in stalls/spins at pattern altitude. They are rocket propelled and the shrouds are fully extended in less than one second. The forward motion of the aircraft opens the canopy not long after that.
Oh, I wasn't clear. These are ballistic parachutes that are attched to the plane. They bring the entire aircraft down. Follow the link and see their video of an in-flight deployment on a 152. Pretty cool.
LOTS of training done there, despite having a single runway(?) because of the excellent instrument training environment. Has all 3 types of instrument approaches available. Planes used to fly down from the Los Angeles area to get out of that crazy airspace and into this crazy but thinner airspace for training. And when the weather turned IFR, planes from all over SoCal flew here to get real IFR time. Is it still that way?
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