Emergency Landing on Highway

Post by **Garry Russell** » 24 Jul 2007, 11:35

:shock:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ec_1185225437

Garry

Nigel H-J · Post by **Nigel H-J** » 24 Jul 2007, 12:50

Incredibly lucky that the motorway was as quiet as that..............had it been the M25!!!

:shock:

What I haven't worked out yet is why the officer ran after the car passing the aircraft and made him pull in unless of course it was hit by the aircraft?

None-the-less, it was still a good landing considering the road wasn't straight at that point.

Nigel.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 24 Jul 2007, 13:00

To land on one of the UK's main roads you would need to be flying a float plane :roll:

TBH I think I would rather put it down in a space off the road as there are so many obstacles to hit as happened to an Argosy after a successful forced landing on a highway it hit a bridge......I think it was :think:

Garry

Vulcan_to_the_Sky! · Post by **Vulcan_to_the_Sky!** » 24 Jul 2007, 18:54

Chris Trott · Post by **Chris Trott** » 25 Jul 2007, 01:24

Some more information -

T-6 Texan, threw a rod during their flight to Oshkosh. Tried to dead-stick to Fon-du-Lac but ran out of altitude and had to make an emergency landing on the road. They saw the troopers there slowing traffic for a disabled RV (caravan to you guys) and chose that section of highway. The ATC control tower at FdL alerted the authorities of the impending forced landing about a minute before touchdown and the troopers were alerted about 30 seconds before the plane glided past them. The highway that he touched down on is about 1/4 mile away and 90 degrees off the runway, so he was basically on a short base leg and determined he couldn't make the runway so set down past the already positioned emergency vehicles.

As for why the trooper stopped the car, he wanted to make sure they didn't get hit and were okay. You don't want someone driving away from an accident scene who is unfit to drive (i.e. in shock from what just happened).

Motormouse · Post by **Motormouse** » 25 Jul 2007, 18:23

Made a good job of it,and saved his $275,000 plane for another day.
well done.

ttfn

Pete

Nigel H-J · Post by **Nigel H-J** » 26 Jul 2007, 12:02

Chris

Thanks for posting that information as thought it too good to be true for the police to be there when it happened!!

Chris Trott · Post by **Chris Trott** » 26 Jul 2007, 15:15

Actually, in the US as long as they declare an emergency and there's about 5 minutes until they have to set down, ATC can usually call the local emergency services and get them rolling and typically on scene. We had an aircraft here locally in the D/FW area have an emergency and have to set down in a field (only suitable spot due to power lines around the roads) and the fire department was already there with their brushfire (aka offroad) equipment in the field so the pilot landed and skidded to a stop less than 100 feet from the truck. There wasn't a fire, but had there been, the fire truck was in position to put it out almost immediately. Most of our emergency response organizations are really good about responding quickly to aircraft emergencies. It's funny some of the stuff they'll send too. I've seen everything from motorcycle cops to 5000-gallon tankers show up to light plane emergencies. Had they unloaded the 5000-gallon foam tanker, I think we wouldn't have been able to find the plane...