All survive dropping in for dinner (USA)

[Gnarly Gnu]

*Breakfast

 

Glad they are doing well, have to say there are some advantages in these lightweight houses. Don't try this with the Gnu bunker.

 

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[/url]A small plane crashed into a Virginia home

 

and the three people on board survived with minor injuries. Middlesex County Sheriff David Bushey said the single-engine plane took off just before 9am Saturday from Hummel Field Airport in Topping, about an hour east of Richmond. Two adults and a youngster were on board the plane but no one was at the home at the time of the crash. The station reports the pilot lost control, flew between two trees, and crashed into the home in Middlesex County."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[shafs64]

Saw your light one so I though I would drop in

 

 

[Yenn]

By the look of it he had the wheels up so it would have been a sudden stop, probably 60 kts to standstill in its own length.

 

 

[bexrbetter]

they were out mooning....

 

 

[kgwilson]

Knocking both wings off on the trees would have reduced the energy left by quite a bit. I reckon the wheels are back by the trees where the wings are.

 

 

[Alder111]

Looks like most of the starboard wing was still well attached, although according to the Southside Sentinel, "...the plane hit the tops of two tall trees, clipping off portions of the wings..."

 

They had apparently conducted an intersection departure from the field, using only 1200ft out of 2200 total. Apparently that isn't enough with pilot + 2 pax and a recent refueling.

 

Disaster averted; only minor injuries result from plane crash at Hummel

 

 

 

 

[crkckr]

There was a student on his first solo cross country that ran out of fuel on short final our home-field, Hawthorne Airport in Los Angeles, CA back in the mid-1970's. He too ended up flying between two trees to shear the wings off and slow himself down, just as he'd been advised by his instructor (and many magazine articles), for an off field landing. Unfortunately, his off field landing was on a relatively open golf course! He apparently spent a considerable amount of time during his descent trying to find two trees close enough together... poor kid! Also unfortunate for the brand new C-172 that lost both wings and still ended up on it's back.

 

Cheers,

 

jc