A Small Plane Crashed Today (5/2) About Three Blocks from my Residence...

Discussion in 'USA - Pacific Northwest' started by B6_Dolphin, May 2, 2017.

  1. B6_Dolphin

    B6_Dolphin New Member

    Country:
    United States
    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2016
    Messages:
    95
    Likes Received:
    13
    Trophy Points:
    8
    Amazingly, no one was seriously injured, either in the plane, on the ground, or in the 3-4 vehicles that were clipped as it crashed landed in the middle of street, and slid into a bus lane while on fire.

    http://www.king5.com/news/local/small-plane-crashes-in-mukilteo/436150277

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]

    For those outside the area, Mukilteo is just west of Paine Field, where Boeing conducts flight tests for their wide-body aircraft (747, 767, 777, 787) produced in Everett. Paine Field is also used by many private pilots, as well as the US Air Force, who periodically perform touch-and-go's for their EA-18 aircraft from Whidbey Island. In other words, it's a very busy air field.

    This incident appears to be a case of engine trouble soon after take-off, and it appears by either dumb luck or pilot skill that the plane, after clipping the power line, was able to be put down in the middle of the road, and not in contact with any buildings, including the gas station just north of the crash site.

    [​IMG]

    Luckily, the worst things that happened were the power was out to most of the area for less than an hour, and a huge traffic jam ensued, as this occurred at 3:45 pm, just as rush hour was starting to spool-up.
     
  2. Badbilly

    Badbilly Official VFRWorld Troll Of The Year!

    Country:
    United States
    Joined:
    Sep 9, 2007
    Messages:
    15,047
    Likes Received:
    52
    Trophy Points:
    48
    Lucky folks in the plane and on the ground. 1545 is busy anywhere near I-5.

    For those wanting to take a closer look at the area, Win10 maps.
     
  3. B6_Dolphin

    B6_Dolphin New Member

    Country:
    United States
    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2016
    Messages:
    95
    Likes Received:
    13
    Trophy Points:
    8
  4. Gator

    Gator Insider

    Country:
    United States
    Joined:
    Nov 29, 2012
    Messages:
    5,201
    Likes Received:
    811
    Trophy Points:
    143
    Location:
    Boynton Beach, FL
    Map
    I saw that on the morning news, can't believe nobody was killed. Pilot was a champ.
     
  5. OOTV

    OOTV Insider

    Joined:
    Aug 20, 2011
    Messages:
    6,479
    Likes Received:
    949
    Trophy Points:
    143
    Location:
    Anaheim, Ca.
    Quite a few years ago there was a small plane crash here in So Cal where the plane ended up crashing on a golf course. Found out the next day it was my general manager of the place I worked! One lucky SOB, although he almost lost one of his feet, it was almost severed completely off his leg. He's doing well now and still flies too!
     
  6. Badbilly

    Badbilly Official VFRWorld Troll Of The Year!

    Country:
    United States
    Joined:
    Sep 9, 2007
    Messages:
    15,047
    Likes Received:
    52
    Trophy Points:
    48
    Military pilots are footprinted for ID purposes.
     
  7. RVFR

    RVFR Member

    Country:
    United States
    Joined:
    Jan 10, 2006
    Messages:
    8,006
    Likes Received:
    265
    Trophy Points:
    128
    Location:
    Olympia Wa.
    Map
    Any landing you can live through is a good landing, saw that yesterday. pretty crazy how there wasn't any loss of life considering where this happened at. Yes good on the pilot too, thats a tough situation to be in. Just hate to be in his shoes when the NTSB / FAA get a hold of him. On the golf coarse landing, Harrison Ford did one of those too.
     
  8. reg71

    reg71 Poser Staff Member

    Country:
    United States
    Joined:
    Feb 15, 2006
    Messages:
    9,756
    Likes Received:
    269
    Trophy Points:
    128
    Location:
    Atascadero, California, United States
    Map
    I saw that this morn, too. Was it clipping the power lines that ignited it?
     
  9. B6_Dolphin

    B6_Dolphin New Member

    Country:
    United States
    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2016
    Messages:
    95
    Likes Received:
    13
    Trophy Points:
    8
    It appears from the dash cam video the contact with the horizontal end of the traffic light stanchion must have punctured the left wing tank, as up until then, no fire is evident.
     
  10. NormK

    NormK New Member

    Joined:
    Jul 12, 2012
    Messages:
    1,821
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Made it to our news tonight
     
  11. RobVG

    RobVG Member

    Country:
    Canada
    Joined:
    Mar 30, 2013
    Messages:
    1,450
    Likes Received:
    31
    Trophy Points:
    78
    Location:
    Seattle
    Map
    About 20 miles from my house.
     
Related Topics

Share This Page