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Video: Small plane crashes after clipping power line
Authorities say a small plane clipped a power line and crashed into a corn field while attempting to land in southeastern Michigan, injuring the two men on board. Sunday night's crash happened in Monroe County Ida Township, about 40 miles southwest of Detroit. The co-pilot recorded video of the attempted landing that was released by the sheriff's department. Click the video player to watch the crash. WARNING: Graphic language. (www.myfoxdetroit.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
In Wee Waa there are lots of Crop Dusters near my place.
whole new meaning to catching the number 3 wire. . . .
what in Sam Hill is a power line doing that close to the end of an airstrip?
Reminds me of a conversation I had with (a very famous pilot) we were talking about crop dusting. "I prefer power lines, you hit them and they arc and blow apart, the damn telephone lines just seem to stretch and stretch and stretch...."
This brings back memories of an incident I witnessed about 45 years ago near Wee Waa in Australia, when a Piper Pawnee crop-sprayer hit an overhead line. The line (I thought it was a power line?) was caught on the tail-wheel and stretched out for a few hundred yards as the plane decelerated rapidly, and the pilot cut the power when he realized he'd effectively stopped flying, at a height of about 1 yard or so. At that moment, the wire broke, and the plane plopped into the crop. Not a scratch on it. The problem was that the cotton crop had just been irrigated, and the plane was about 200 yards from any solid ground, and the soil was a very sticky black loam: even walking out the pilot had difficulty. It was nearly 2 weeks before they got the plane back.
That's why we practice short field approaches and forward slips to a landing. Not sure if I could get it back out, but I could land my Cherokee Six there with no problem.