Aircraft lands on golf course
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Take the wings off and load it on a trailer. Not a big deal
contender
Ruger Guru
Woops!!!!! But it appears all was ok.
When I was a young teen,, we had a Cessna try to land on the beach at Lake Lure. Apparently he'd had some trouble & the engine had quit. Well, as he was trying to land,, he realized there was a fence & such that could have really caused a bigger crash. he was almost stopped, but managed to pull up over the fence, go under the power lines & land on the road. Right near our restaurant. He sustained some damage to the plane,, but nobody hurt. I have an old picture somewhere of the plane on the highway.
When I was a young teen,, we had a Cessna try to land on the beach at Lake Lure. Apparently he'd had some trouble & the engine had quit. Well, as he was trying to land,, he realized there was a fence & such that could have really caused a bigger crash. he was almost stopped, but managed to pull up over the fence, go under the power lines & land on the road. Right near our restaurant. He sustained some damage to the plane,, but nobody hurt. I have an old picture somewhere of the plane on the highway.
Pretty interesting video about the plane on the golf course. I think it’s amazing that they saw it coming and videoed the landing all the way to the final stop. And the guy flying airplane either got really good or really lucky. Hopping the plane over the sand traps..
Many years ago our Cav Troop was heading to Fort A.P.. Hill Va and ran into a not predicted heavy rain storm. One of our Huey gunships landed on the green of one of the holes of the Eisenhower golf course
Not in the same category, but back in 1971 at Camp Eagle, Republic of Vietnam, the Commanding General had his private helipad painted with the crest of our division, the 101st Airborne, about 15 by 20 feet in size. It was very impressive, and intended to be used for the upcoming visit by Bob Hope with his Christmas show. But before Hope came, one of our helicopters from my unit, the 326th Medical Battalion, was on their way to our unit when a major mechanical problem affected the aircraft and the pilot had to make an emergency landing. The only decent spot he saw was the General's landing pad. He hit hard, blowing out the skids, and rupturing the gas tank, spilling aviation fuel all over the nicely painted crest, of course ruining it. No one was hurt but the General was livid. He called my battalion commander, LTC Bob Day, to his office and apparently ripped him up and down for what the pilot had done, seemingly far more concerned over impressing Bob Hope than in the well being of the crew of the helicopter. That general was a total POS in my opinion.
How to get it off the golf course? I'd use a driver.
The pilot was a low time 21-22 year old. He did a great job of missing the tree and the sand traps. Had full flaps down and did a full stall landing with only damage to a wheel pant.
Oh Yea he walked away by flying the plane all the way to the crash. GOOD job
wheelgun1958
Hunter
Been there, done that.
Seems I heard a saying about if you can walk away from it, then it was a good landing. If you can walk away AND reuse the equipment, it was a great landing
In the Fall of 1971, I was sent to Fort Huachuca in AZ. On Huachuca Mountain side facing the post was a large StratCom Patch of colored rocks. I understand that a vehicle overturned and some people were injured. Later the CG of Strat Com left the service pre-maturely. I took my family back in the early 1990s, the patch was gone from the side of the mountain.
