Broken Cessna Wing Strut?

[JayAlarm]

Ive seen several 207s hit the ground (the aftermath anyway) . The two things that (almost) never bend are the wing struts and the gear legs. Ive seen a couple wrecks where the the airplane ends up a mangled mess but everyone walks away and the two things that are intact are the cabin and the wings struts. Don't worry about wing struts dude

Thank you very much

 

[fholbert]

I believe the strongest part of any Cessna Single is the newer style Landing gear.

At the flight school I flew and worked at, In Jan 09 they had record low temperatures. We have a big hangar with a 60-70 x 20 foot bi-fold door on it. Well one of the cables snapped which caused the others to fail and the door dropped down onto the 172R they were pushing out by hand. It landed right at the rear window frame just behind a student who was pushing the plane on the strut. The door ended up resting on the plane with the gear slightly compressed. When they lifted the door off of it, the plane sprung right back up.

1.) Did the student ever come back? That must have scared the crap out of him.

2.) The guy on the tow bar. Is he still able to have children?