Portable Potties Cushion Plane Crash
(May 2, Copied from KOMO News) - A small airplane dropping from the sky after its engine failed wound up on a cushioning bunch of portable toilets -- and the pilot was able to walk away.
Gary Mayor of the Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna 182 crashed Friday afternoon in Washington state after taking off from Thun Field, an airfield owned by Pierce County southeast of Tacoma.
Pilot Clifford Howell said his engine stopped when he was about 150 feet in the air, KOMO News of Seattle reported. Howell said he tried to make it back to the runway but came up short.
"If he had made the runway, he would have landed a lot harder than he did by impacting with those Sani-Cans and the wood pile," Pierce County Sgt. Mike Blair said, according to KOMO."It probably saved his life, I would think."
Witnesses said the plane bounced off the rows of portable toilets in a storage yard at the north end of the field, flipped, then landed upside down on a pile of wood chips.
1 comment:
Wow... I guess this is the only positive thing out of a sluggish economy...man gets life saved from plane crash by unused portable toilets.
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