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3 Dead After a Cessna Hits a Pickup Truck on Takeoff in Maine
The Cessna 172 struck a pickup truck on the runway during takeoff at Knox County Airport near Rockland, Maine. Knox Country Airport is also the site of the worst aviation disaster in Maine when 17 people were killed when Downeast Airlines Flight 46 crash in fog on May 30, 1979 (http://bangordailynews.com/2009/05/29/news/crash-30-years-after-maines-worst-air-disaster/). (bangordailynews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Would it be a good idea to mandate any veicle traffic operating on the ground to have a radio tuned to and operating on tower frequency to monitor local and ground traffic intentions?
Some airports have hangers on both sides of runway and the only way to get there is to cross mid-field taxi way.
Most all of the airports I fly to there is no tower or radio to ground talk just announce position and intentions.
I watch for animal - people - and planes and autos prior to landing and take-off. Fly safe everyone.
Most all of the airports I fly to there is no tower or radio to ground talk just announce position and intentions.
I watch for animal - people - and planes and autos prior to landing and take-off. Fly safe everyone.
Even at the controlled airport a radio (drivers's or on the plane) may fail. See and be seen.
Years ago I had to abort a twilight landing when I noticed a car on the runway. It turned out to be a local citizen giving his mother driving lessons.
Fault has to primarily if not exclusively lie with the vehicle driver. A simple stop, look both ways, before crossing was all that was required with no distracting noise in the cab and windows rolled down on both sides. Relying on communications at an uncontrolled airport for ground vehicular traffic movement is an accident waiting to happen.
"The current generation of pilots are among the safest."
- Famous last words.
Prayers to the victim's families.
- Famous last words.
Prayers to the victim's families.
Sounds like 200 hour syndrome to me. Every body involved with this one was a pilot. The never mentioned whether or not the Volvo driver in the Texas incident was a plot or not.
I'm based at that Texas airport...the SUV driver was not a pilot. There is a good cafe on the field that attracts many non-flyers. Unfortunately, as seen in the crash video, vehicles cross the runway safety area then drive on the taxiway to get there.