Plane crashes into Ferris Wheel
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This is what's called a "Wheel up Landing'. They are highly efficient. LDR O'. The only trouble with one of these is that you need a longish ladder to get down to the ground.
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Just glad everyone is OK and full chukka to the guy for telling them to get the kids out first. It does beggar belief though that they built a Ferris wheel there. Maybe they should have built the London Eye at the threshold of 27 at Heathrow.
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to paraphrase the british navy captain that ran a frigate aground "you hit a ferris wheel in the morning - you get a court martial in the afternoon".
HOWEVER, how unlucky can you get going around he would (should) have gone to the right of the runway whilst messing with flaps etc.. then a little drift inland.. then nose high not looking below in front ... then boom...
this should have been a foreseeable problem and an equal amount of blame has to lie with those that let the situation develop..
good luck to everyone involved
HOWEVER, how unlucky can you get going around he would (should) have gone to the right of the runway whilst messing with flaps etc.. then a little drift inland.. then nose high not looking below in front ... then boom...
this should have been a foreseeable problem and an equal amount of blame has to lie with those that let the situation develop..
good luck to everyone involved
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Police say the pilot is slowly coming round.
I once "hooked a duck" but it wasn't at a fairground and at least it was airborne too. I didn't win a goldfish
Apparently this pilot did say it had been a bit of a roller coaster day.
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"The Ferris wheel was about 50 yards from the southern threshold of the runway," Jens Meinecke told XXXX. "The guy was doing a missed approach from the north and with the nose high on climb out did not see the wheel."
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Okay, aside from the play on words, something more serious. A structure such as this, this close to the runway, shouldn't that be NOTAMed? Was it?
Or does that only apply to licensed airfields?
Or does that only apply to licensed airfields?
