http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa90/mcrock_photo/http://discussions.flightaware.com/viewtopic.php?t=3618&sid=37322473f65bb6259875a4481322370dCheck this. A guy with ZERO time in anything decides he wants to buy a plane. So he goes out and buys the most high performance single on the market, leaving out home built and experimental designs. He buys a years worth of instruction. On the way back from the factory, with the factory assigned instructor - they eat it in a 20 knot crosswind up in Marin County at Gnoss field (DVO).
Lesson learned - guys with money die at higher rates for reasons of prestige.





IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 171SR Make/Model: SR22 Description: SR-22
Date: 06/10/2007 Time: 2115
Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Substantial
LOCATION
City: NOVATO State: CA Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT ON LANDING, WENT OFF THE SIDE OF THE RUNWAY, NOVATO, CA
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 2 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
WEATHER: NOT REPORTED
OTHER DATA
Activity: Pleasure Phase: Landing Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: OAKLAND, CA (WP27) Entry date: 06/11/2007
News link:
http://www.marinij.com/ci_6111253?source=most_viewedThree people, including a flight instructor, were shaken but uninjured after the small plane they had been flying skidded off the runway at Marin County Airport at Novato's Gnoss Field and landed upright Sunday.
The plane hopped and skipped over a moat east of the runway and came to rest in a nearby field.
"They're extremely lucky they didn't catch a wing," Novato Fire Protection District Capt. Dmitri Menzel.
All three people refused medical transport, Menzel said. The incident was reported to Novato authorities at 1:59 p.m.
Menzel said the plane had been recently purchased and the owner or owners were taking a flight to orient themselves with the features of the aircraft when a strong crosswind swept across the aircraft as it attempted to land.
"Typically, there are some pretty high winds out there," Menzel said.
"It looks like they miscalculated and overcorrected. Luckily, the plane came to rest upright."
Novato fire officials didn't release the names of the plane's occupants or their hometowns. Menzel said no fuel leaked from the aircraft.
Gnoss Field is equipped with a 3,000-foot runway and is open 24 hours and seven days a week to aircraft enthusiasts, according to the county's Web site.
The 120-acre airport is considered home to more than 290 aircraft, from small single-engine planes to corporate aircraft