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Plane lands on truck
Plane touches down - on truck
Fabens - A small plane that had lost power briefly landed on top of an 18-wheeler truck before crashing on to the highway, authorities said. The two people aboard the plane came out unscathed, and the truck driver never heard a thing.
"Nothing happened to the truck, except for a couple of skid marks up on top," said trooper Lucila Torres of the Texas department of public safety. The single-engined plane carrying an El Paso couple fell off the trailer and landed upside down on Interstate 10 during the emergency landing on Thursday about 30km east of El Paso, Torres said.
Pilot Mark Taylor Davis, 45, and wife Mercedes, 42, were returning home from Austin when the 1967 Mooney M20F developed engine trouble, said state troopers. The engine died before the plane could reach an airstrip in Fabens. Truck driver Raymond Bennett White jun, 44, of Dayton, Texas, told state troopers he didn't hear anything when the plane landed on his trailer, Torres said. Federal aviation authorities investigators were reviewing the incident.
Fabens - A small plane that had lost power briefly landed on top of an 18-wheeler truck before crashing on to the highway, authorities said. The two people aboard the plane came out unscathed, and the truck driver never heard a thing.
"Nothing happened to the truck, except for a couple of skid marks up on top," said trooper Lucila Torres of the Texas department of public safety. The single-engined plane carrying an El Paso couple fell off the trailer and landed upside down on Interstate 10 during the emergency landing on Thursday about 30km east of El Paso, Torres said.
Pilot Mark Taylor Davis, 45, and wife Mercedes, 42, were returning home from Austin when the 1967 Mooney M20F developed engine trouble, said state troopers. The engine died before the plane could reach an airstrip in Fabens. Truck driver Raymond Bennett White jun, 44, of Dayton, Texas, told state troopers he didn't hear anything when the plane landed on his trailer, Torres said. Federal aviation authorities investigators were reviewing the incident.
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If it wasn't for the falling off the side part, I thought the man would make a nice pilot for the U.S. Navy ... Then again, that's only valid if he was actually aiming for the tractor-trailor!
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Anyone else remeber the truck landing stunt that they did at some UK airshows about 10-15 years ago?
That'd be Brendan O'Brien again, then.
A while ago the trailer, sponsored if memory serves by Ford (Iveco??) could be seen in a corner down at Headcorn.
Whatever else you say about Brendan (!) he's a great pilot!
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It is possible
On TV a few weeks ago I saw a stunt where a Piper deliberately landed on a truck or rather to be more precise inside the box from the rear !
That was deliberate.
But here...............I wonder what went in the ol flier's mind......
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That was deliberate.
But here...............I wonder what went in the ol flier's mind......
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Martin Carrington was doing this stunt for Kia (?) Cars until recently. Prior to that somebody used to use a Cri-Cri TWIN to do the same thing for Mitsubishi. Who was that?
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Tim Senior was the pilot who took off from the Mitsubishi Shogun in a Cri-Cri, but as far as I know, was unable to land back on. Dave Evans used a Super Decathlon and a Piper Cub to land on a trailer, also sponsored by Mitsubishi, and then Martin Carrington did it with a Kia Cars sponsored Piper Cub....Brendan O'Brien (and Pete Kynsey occasioanally) did it in the 80s sponsored by IVECO trucks and used a Piper Super Cub.
The Broussard was sponsored by Shape Yoghurt, and was used as a parachute drop aircraft...G-YYYY in an 'odd' multicoloured scheme
The Broussard was sponsored by Shape Yoghurt, and was used as a parachute drop aircraft...G-YYYY in an 'odd' multicoloured scheme