Author Topic: AT-6 lands on interstate (Read 689 times)

Treize69 · « **on:** July 23, 2007, 04:37:00 PM »

http://www.10news.com/news/13734903/detail.html

Slash27 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 23, 2007, 04:40:44 PM »

Sounds like it ended well.

Treize69 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 23, 2007, 04:43:37 PM »

Yeah, noone was hurt, but I bet that Trooper got quite a scare if he did't know the plane was coming.

Slash27 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 23, 2007, 05:29:37 PM »

coffee spilled everywhere, donuts squished on floorboard:D

TwentyFo · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2007, 06:36:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Slash27
coffee spilled everywhere, donuts squished on floorboard:D

The Fury · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2007, 07:20:22 PM »

wow he did well especially as the road wasnt on a straight too.

Warchief · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2007, 07:30:11 PM »

No coffee spilled or lose of donuts. If that had happened they would have come out with guns drawn and throwing the pilot around like he should be on COPs

mtnman · « **Reply #7 on:** July 23, 2007, 08:19:49 PM »

I saw that on our local news last night. I work right across the street from the EAA airport, and the airshow started today. That plane landed on Hwy 41 just a few miles south of the airport.

I'm not actually going to go to the show this year, but the planes go directly over where I work as we're at the end of the runway that they use for the airshow planes. They use the other runway for flyby's etc. It's kind of neat to have P51's, B-25's, B-17's, and a bunch of others go right over your head while I'm on break, etc.

Last year or the year before we had a private biplane crash-land on our front lawn after an engine failure during take-off. No damage, and no injury's. They left the plane there until the next day, and then had to partially dismantle it to get it off the lawn, hehe.

Our company always does the yearly emergency evacuation drills a week or two before the airshow, lol.

MtnMan

USCH · « **Reply #8 on:** July 23, 2007, 09:37:02 PM »

ya its weired that this video doesn't even amaze me because at more than a few aircraft have trouble up here this time of year...

I'm not sure when the last year was that someone didn't have an accident on the way to the EAA.

but then again we have an excessive amount of people all flying in for one week

mtnman would know better on the total number of aircraft flying in but I'm sure its over 5,000

Guppy35 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 23, 2007, 10:06:18 PM »

My mom was a kid during WW2 out in South Dakota. She talked about the training planes from the USAAF doing touch and goes on the road in front of the cars.

The crazier ones would try and roll their wheels along the roofs of the cars.

It was a fairly vivid memory for her

I'd imagine that;'s what it looked like for that T-6 driver

JB73 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 23, 2007, 10:17:14 PM »

I love Airventure, and go every year....

sadly there are always at least 2-3 "incidnets" every year, with that many planes, and all that is going on it isn't hard to understand, especially if you go there and see just how many planes are there, and how many are "experimental".

looks like this one wasn't bad, and glad no one was hurt.

US 41 up there has a lot of "flatish" areas, but with the traffic I am amazed he didn't run into any cars. it is a wide highway, with a very large median, but only 2 lanes each direction.

as you see here, it is relatively straight in the area, and following it south it isn't terrible either
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&channel=s&q=&ll=43.923121,-88.583794&spn=0.109795,0.346069&z=12&om=1

Treize69 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2007, 10:28:03 PM »

Just on sheer numbers, theres bound to be something go wrong.

And as they said on Bob and Tom this morning, with all those pilots there, ststistically speaking at least 1,000 of them will have a mental illness

stockli · « **Reply #12 on:** July 24, 2007, 12:51:36 AM »

I saw a b25 headed north of out the western suburbs of Chicago last night.

Wonder if he was going to the show?

moneyguy · « **Reply #13 on:** July 24, 2007, 04:37:08 PM »

we just had a cessna 140 land on rt 495 im MA last night about 15 miles south of here.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 24, 2007, 08:39:57 PM »

I went to Oshkosh once, I think it was 1996. A Russian plane (Yak, I think) ditched short of a runway. I think the pilot was fine but the plane’s underside was beat up. We heard about it from the air and I got a glimpse of it below us on approach. My memory is fuzzy, but I think it was at an airport near Oshkosh, not at the Airshow itself.