Harrison Ford injured in plane crash a couple hours ago. Any news?
Looked like a BT19? or SNJ?
Ray
Harrison Ford injured in plane crash a couple hours ago. Any news?
Looked like a BT19? or SNJ?
Ray
It's a PT-22. Hope he's OK.
Said he had facial injuries, guess he is lucky.
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He is OK, cuts and bruises and red stuff but OK. The condition of the airplane lying on the golf course looks pretty good; he made a very good forced landing.
Wishing Harrison a speedy recovery - Get well soon!
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CNN has a reasonable piece. Quoted an FAA guy and Tom Haines. Scary Mary was quoted as saying airplanes get more dangerous as they get older. Duh
Ray
A few things I heard:
"You have to question the integrity of those older airplanes."
"...unfortunately most of these types of accidents end tragically."
From an "Expert": "as you get lower you lose control because you can't go back up"
"the landing gear were designed to collapse."
Less than 30 minutes ago, a CNN talking head interviewing an owner of 2 PT-22's and after this pilot/owner said he had a forced landing in one of them.
"Is it the structure of this kind of older plane that makes the engine stop more frequently?"
Both men and women equally ask these inane questions. A woman asked this one. Luckily she's very pretty so she'll never have to ask, "can I upsize that for you?"
When see the wings are in-printed in to the ground and following the unevenness of the terrain I stop calling it "landing"
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