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Vegas Man crashes Two Planes at Same Airport in the Same Year
Norman B. Ivans might want to think twice before he tries to land another airplane at the North Las Vegas Airport during the first week of January - if the Federal Aviation Administration lets him fly at all. Why? He crashed two of the same model of aircraft at the airport, exactly 363 days apart. (www.lvrj.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Sorry to pollute your personal forum. The post was put in here because it is very unusual for someone to wreck 2 airplanes of the same model, at the same airport, landing, in less than a year. Nothing technical about it (yet). I might add that some of the Flightaware people make spurious comments from time to time too. Maybe you should bust their balls.
Yours was not the issue and if one reads the guy was an accident waiting to happen again it looks like. Some of the other comments that are made I stand behind. Yours again is fine they are an AC that requires one flys it by the book or this is what happens.
You are probably right sir, about the Aerostar being more plane than his skills will handle. My point is that this is a forum, not a club. I read plenty I may disagree with or not like, but I'm not so snobbish as to suggest the writer be banished.
Although interesting, relevant, and completely squawk-worthy, an incident at the same airport is not entirely unbelievable since North Las Vegas could have been his home base and therefore more than half of his flights could very well have that as a destination. And being the same model is also not really so strange since pilots tend to keep flying models that they are already familiar with.
I'm sure there are statistics to support the existence of people that crash their Honda Civic within a mile of their home (1 in 3 car accidents are that close), get a similar replacement for their beloved Honda Civic, and then are unlucky enough to get in another accident similarly close to home soon after.
I'm sure there are statistics to support the existence of people that crash their Honda Civic within a mile of their home (1 in 3 car accidents are that close), get a similar replacement for their beloved Honda Civic, and then are unlucky enough to get in another accident similarly close to home soon after.
The license to drive and the license to fly are two different animals. I'll bet most pilots never prong a plane and I have never personally known any to do it twice in a year. I know plenty of people who wreck a car every year. Just my sense that consistent repeat offenders in either category probably have an issue. Lol
Time to buy a boat
Oddly enough a gentleman in El Dorado Arkansas crashed two Aerostars in one year in el Dorado. Both were aborted takeoff attempts as I recall. Aerostars need about 2000 feet of runway before they rotate...makes any takeoff on a short field problematic.