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Plane makes emergency landing on busy Los Angeles road
Nice job avoiding both the traffic and the power lines on each side...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-...s-angeles-road |
Pretty amazing flying... a quick weave to avoid a car or two and if she followed the checklist, from 65-70 knots on touch down to a dead stop at the traffic lights!
Other reports cite the location it happened as Hamilton Ave, Huntington Beach. They say she was flying out of John Wayne and suffered power loss - musn't have had enough height to make the beach itself. From Google maps, that looks like a pretty built up area too - not too many open spaces to put down a 172! I guess they'll put it on the back of a truck to get it back to the FBO. |
That “good job well done” will likely be turned into endangering the general public. i don’t know the area but it may or may not have been the most appropriate place for an emergency landing. |
no doubt all sorts of stuff will come out in the investigation. But she did well to avoid the power lines, poles, and cars. And she had a good dose of luck.
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Originally Posted by B2N2
(Post 10163609)
That “good job well done” will likely be turned into endangering the general public. i don’t know the area but it may or may not have been the most appropriate place for an emergency landing. She had an engine failure and didn't have a lot of choices on where she put it down. Would you have preferred that she smack it into the side of a building?? Bksmithca |
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Plane makes emergency landing on busy Los Angeles road |
Originally Posted by Bksmithca
(Post 10163952)
B2N2
She had an engine failure and didn't have a lot of choices on where she put it down. Would you have preferred that she smack it into the side of a building?? Bksmithca |
Originally Posted by B-757
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..Exactly my thoughts also..Just curious, B2N2, what would you have done ??..
But the first inclination of the (uneducated ) press is usually to praise the pilot for the avoidance of a true massacre. My point was simply that these events rarely turn out to be what they were initially perceived to be. But the average newspaper almost never publishes a follow up after a year or so when the final report of the NTSB comes out. I just questioned the ‘backslapping’ that’s all. |
Huntington Beach is not even in Los Angeles County.
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Originally Posted by Koan
(Post 10200319)
Huntington Beach is not even in Los Angeles County.
No idea why the engine quit, but it apparently did. Setting it down on a street in a city without hitting anything is good. Maybe we'll find out later what caused the power loss so we can draw and quarter the guilty party. But however it happened, the result was better than most of the alternatives. Until someone proves she caused this herself, the benefit of any doubt goes to the pilot. |
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