PA-28 lands on road

[west lakes]

May be of interest

BBC News - Light aircraft lands on main road at Wellesbourne (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-11973864)

[Whopity]

As the aircraft was at 90 degrees to the road it is most probable that it landed in a field (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wellesbourne,+Warwick,+UK&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=19.458573,57.084961&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wellesbourne,+Warwick,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.176445,-1.601171&spn=0.009829,0.027874&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=52.176766,-1.601029&panoid=Vf6x2gHImpiz5_GVg_ZyXw&cbp=12,121.01,,0,6.39) and finished up overrunning onto the road. As there were not many options around the heavily wooded site, the pilot did a good job of getting it down in a very small space and walking away.

[172driver]

Ouch! Registration seemed to ring a bell - just had a look at my logbook and memory did serve - I've got quite a few hours in this one, many moons ago. Doesn't look too worse for wear, though. Well done the pilot :ok:

[VOD80]

Doesn't look too worse for wear, though. Well done the pilot

Starboard wing looks pretty much ripped off! ;) Concur with "well done the pilot" though!

[Chequeredflag]

Reported to be a 12 hour student. Obviously kept a cool head, but a bit of a lively start to his flying career!!!

[Whopity]

Reported to be a 12 hour studentDo 12 hour students spend an hour in the circuit solo as stated in the BBC report?

[Chequeredflag]

Info came from someone based there who should know. Appears he was wrong.

[1800ed]

The Daily Mail has a slightly different/better photograph of the aircraft. Though the BBC does give the better report.

Miraculous escape for pilot after he crash lands on a MAIN ROAD... and walks away without a scratch | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337727/Miraculous-escape-pilot-crash-lands-MAIN-ROAD--walks-away-scratch.html)

[Chequeredflag]

Not sure about Wellesbourne. When I was learning at East Midlands Airport, I was sent often up to do three or four solo circuits at a time, which often amounted to 30/50 minutes or more, sometimes extended by orbiting for commercial aircraft movements.

The pilot was quoted as saying "The engine decided it did not want to play anymore, and I remembered my instructor telling me that in such circumstances, simply to find a field......."or words to that effect.

[bumitch]

I don't think an hour of circuits is unusual. I was doing about an hour at a time when I was doing my solo circuits, I think I had about 10-12 hours in my log book at the time. Pretty knackering though, I have to say.

Congratulations to the pilot of G-BXPL, well done!
:D

[Whopity]

and I remembered my instructor telling me that in such circumstanceshardly sounds like a pre-flight brief for a solo student.

[BackPacker]

hardly sounds like a pre-flight brief for a solo student

...but it does sound like your average just-solo student who has been confronted with a for-real EFATO, managed to find a field, landed successfully ("any landing you can walk away from is a good one"), now suffers from the effects of adrenaline wearing off (aka "the shakes"), and is being confronted with a nosy journalist looking for a juicy quote.

You can hardly expect a word-for-word recital of the pre-solo brief under those circumstances, I think.

[Chequeredflag]

As I said before, it came from a pretty good source, but I have no idea if it's right or not. Perhaps someone can clear it up??

[Dawdler]

How about the pilot himself?

The pilot added he had just taken off.
He said: "I'd just been doing circuits actually, so I'd done six or seven take offs and landings in the previous hour.


From the BBC report.

[jez d]

Well done to the pilot.

And, for once, I have to say well done to the press for not sensationalising the article with references to 'plummet', 'wreckage', 'infant school' and 'puppy farm'.