Outlanding Nyngan - 24 January 2025

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Anyonr hear about this?

 

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Nyngan - 24 January 2025 - 1215 pm 
Report of an aircraft emergency landing on a roadway near Nyngan. 
Two persons on board - no injuries 
Mayday call was made - as other pilots had heard  .

 

[onetrack]

The pilot of the Cirrus S@ 22 (VH-DCB) called in loss of oil pressure and potential fire, landed safely on the Mitchell Hwy, and the aircraft has now been pushed off the highway into a paddock. Good job there was a nice big long runway right there! Roadside signs are the biggest hazard of any highway outlanding. Well done that man!

[Freizeitpilot]

If you can believe the comments on FarceBook, he popped a piston and had to do a 180 to avoid a car.

Fair effort !!

[facthunter]

It's nice to be near a road if you have to outland. It's easier to make the Headlines landing on a road , but it also has it's own hazards to assess as well besides that.  INTO wind is important.  IF fuel is low, land before it runs out. Having the engine still running gives you a better chance of getting it down EXACTLY where you want it to end up with a few more options than when you are gliding..  Nev

[Thruster88]

I used to live near Nyngan. Nyngan to Nevertire is 64 km of complete straightness. Engine failed at 8000 ft near Mullengudgery, about 15nm from YNYN, a little to far to glide. Nice job.

[BrendAn]

6 minutes ago, Thruster88 said:

I used to live near Nyngan. Nyngan to Nevertire is 64 km of complete straightness. Engine failed at 8000 ft near Mullengudgery, about 15nm from YNYN, a little to far to glide. Nice job.

my jabiru powered xair lives there now.

its in one of your old friends hangar.  great little airport there.

[Methusala]

Thruster 25-0393 is there as well!

[BrendAn]

3 minutes ago, Methusala said:

Thruster 25-0393 is there as well!

I thought it was at Tullamore, or is that the same area

[Thruster88]

Tullamore is just down the road, about 140km from Nyngan

[Bosi72]

19 hours ago, onetrack said:

Roadside signs are the biggest hazard of any highway outlanding. Well done that man!

In my opinion it would be the powerlines which usually follow the roads.

[facthunter]

 Trees also You don't need to clip one by the roadside. There's cattle grids also if  the VIS isn't that good. Dusty roads. Nev

[Methusala]

Picture in the OP shows well cleared back from bitumen, should always be the rule.

[facthunter]

The overhang has to be considered in places with more rainfall. Nev

[turboplanner]

24 minutes ago, facthunter said:

The overhang has to be considered in places with more rainfall. Nev

Well there's potholes too but Australia has a lot of open clear wide roads too.

It's really a matter of assessing as you are coming down.

One guy, in a Piper Arrow, flying his elderly parents  to Sydney from Moorabbin had an engine failure in the suburbs and landed in medium traffic on Ferntree Gully Road. He was still rolling fast when he got to the traffic lights and the left wing tangled with a series of steel poles and wrapped the aircraft around a big wooden power pole (so the energy dissipated). That pulled the power lines down around him and there was a fire. Emergency Services did their thing and all three got out uninjured. 

[facthunter]

The risk you would expose other road users to should be considered also. Same as a beach landing you wouldn't want to kill surfers just so you went OK. THE COURT's will take a grim view of that.   The point I'm trying to emphasise is that roads have a lot of hazards you might not consider fully in the first instance.  With a slow stall speed plane being into wind  is of much more benefit than if you are flying a Bonanza. Some planes ANY OFF Aerodrome landing is really unlikely to end up well. YOU still do your best with the situation you are in and maintain control as long as possible.  Nev

[Marty_d]

Horses for courses.

Nyngan is a town of 2000 people so probably not a lot of traffic on the road.

From that photo the stretch of road he landed on looks long, straight and level. Plenty of visibility for both the pilot and any oncoming traffic.

Compare that with the forced landing about 15 years ago on a Victa ct4 on the Brooker Avenue north of Hobart.  He ran out of fuel and put the aircraft down on a divided road with a rise, bend and overpass and concrete barriers.  Needless to say the aircraft was a write off. He must have been lucky with traffic because that stretch of road turns into a parking lot during rush hour.