Another crash....

H46Bubba

H46Bubba

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Looks like everyone survived with cuts and scrapes. Luckily this was on a Sunday and not on a school day while the field would probably have been occupied by students for PE.

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Small plane crash lands at high school in Fayette

By James Salzer

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A small plane crash landed onto an athletic field at Starr’s Mill High School in Fayetteville Sunday afternoon.

Initial indications were that the man and woman in the plane did not suffer serious injuries. Fayette County officials had not released the names of those aboard as of Sunday evening.

Fayette County Sheriff’s officials said the single-engine plane left DeKalb Peachtree Airport in Atlanta for Harris County Airport in Pine Mountain Sunday. Once in the air, the pilot noticed the plane was losing oil pressure, officials said, and it was diverted to Atlanta Regional Airport-Falcon Field in Peachtree City.

However, it never made it.

Instead, the pilot had to crash land in a vacant athletic field at Starr’s Mill High School. No one was on the field at the time.

Sheriff’s officials said the man was taken to Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville while the woman was transported to Atlanta Medical Center. They said the injuries appeared to be mostly cuts and bruises.

The Federal Aviation Authority and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
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H46Bubba said:
Looks like everyone survived with cuts and scrapes. Luckily this was on a Sunday and not on a school day while the field would probably have been occupied by students for PE.

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Yeah, though I like to any students would have gotten out of the way if they saw a plane coming in. What really would be a problem is landing on a major highway or something. Only so many places the cars can go and if it is rush hour, well....but it looks like the pilots looked for a good place to put it down and followed through. It's easy practise emergency landings, quite another to actually do them. Kudos to the pilot.
 
Christ, look at how not-far that treeline is behind them. They must have come down like a ton of bricks...we've finally figured out what the French are good at.
 
I know a guy who crash landed a TBM700 into a warehouse that was under construction. He walked away unharmed.
 
wainscottbl said:
Yeah, though I like to any students would have gotten out of the way if they saw a plane coming in.
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The problem is that with an engine failure, a plane is super stealthy. There's no sound, no horn, and people naturally don't look up for things that fall from the sky. In any group of 100 people in the way, I think you'd be lucky if two of them will notice a plane barreling towards them, and most likely they'll notice it just as the leading edge is about to smack them into oblivion.

Boris Badenov said:
Christ, look at how not-far that treeline is behind them. They must have come down like a ton of bricks...we've finally figured out what the French are good at.
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It looks like it slid in from the left of the shot, so I imagine perspective has something to do with it. Either way, kudos to the pilot!
 
Boris Badenov said:
Christ, look at how not-far that treeline is behind them. They must have come down like a ton of bricks...we've finally figured out what the French are good at.
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Listen, if they want to drink Merlot we're going to drink Merlot!

Besides, coming down like a ton of bricks the American's can do better than the French anytime (Glasair III). :)
 
My brief but positive experience with the TBM can be summed up as "it is one hell of an airplane, and probably the only single-engine turboprop I would want to personally own someday."

BEEF SUPREME said:
The TBM airframe certainly has had some spectacular crashes with high survival rates. Most notably: Ray Dolby's crash at TRK.
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Getting it slow, then cobbing the power without stepping on the rudder is a surefire way to have some "fun" as well. But it is, indeed, an excellent airframe. A lot of the accidents that ended poorly, at least in my opinion and from when I did a bit of research on them a few years ago, have been poor ADM or aircraft handling.
 
Happy to raise to premiums sky high. I am sure the life insurance part is happy they don't have to pay out but I hate to think what the rates will be now.

EDIT: Forgot to add the relating quote about the above comment about the insurance company being happy. Still getting used to the format of adding the quotes manually to a post.
 
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Good job by the pilot - the TBM is built like a tank, a former boss of mine looked at buying one which we demo'd out of PDK. The salesman briefed me on the whole "get it slow and cob the power" story. Evidently use of full right rudder is mandatory lest you should suddenly find yourself upside down!

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