DE727UPS
Well-Known Member
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCaa1D5JvE
Not sure what shredded some of the props. Wonder if the wind could be so strong that it turned the props through causing prop strikes.
Crazy video from Las Vegas wind storm
- Thread starter DE727UPS
- Start date
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTCaa1D5JvE
Not sure what shredded some of the props. Wonder if the wind could be so strong that it turned the props through causing prop strikes.
ahw01
Well-Known Member
Seems like some are absolutely fine. The lighter ones I get,PA-20, C-172 etc. for the others bad tie down technique?
What were the winds?
NovemberEcho
Dergs favorite member
Some of these look like they were tied down upside down otherwise I don’t see how it would be physically possible to end up like they were with the tie down straps still attached at both points
NovemberEcho
Dergs favorite member
Wind gusts up to 70mph
Wild Las Vegas storm leaves trail of damage across valley, emergency center opens
A thunderstorm with powerful winds and blowing dust left damage around the valley Tuesday, including downed power poles, and thousands of people without power. The effects were still being felt thr…
www.8newsnow.com
NovemberEcho
Dergs favorite member
The chain appears to be attached to a rope that runs along the ground, or at least for some of them
BEEF SUPREME
Well-Known Member
I think it's a steel cable that is anchored down in intervals along the ramp. Anyway, that's what I remember when I was last there in a Falcon 900. It's been a while.
Pilot Fighter
Well-Known Member
In West TN and West KY, insured hangar queens are pushed out onto the ramp with marginal tie-downs for tornado watches.
///AMG
Well-Known Member
Corporate Pilot
Well-Known Member
First Mooney had a hard landing on 7/3/25.
Hard landing Accident Mooney M20K 305 Rocket N66JG, Thursday 3 July 2025
A Mooney M20K 305 Rocket, N66JG, sustained substantial damage following a hard landing on runway 35L at Henderson Executive Airport (HSH/KHND), Las Vegas, Nevada. There were no injuries. ...
asn.flightsafety.org
WacoFan
Bigly
Hooks airport (KDWH) at one time was the largest privately owned airport in the US of A (according to Charlie Hooks who owned it). Anyway, they had something like 750 airplanes based there - a hundred + jets and turboprops, lots of cabin-class piston twins, corp helicopters, US Customs and a bunch of singles plus flight schools, FBO's, and an abandoned Convair 220 left by marijuana smugglers in the early 70's. Anyway, this was after the price of oil had collapsed fully in 1985 and. YUGE numbers of the based airplanes were for sale or simply waiting to be repo'd. That timely act of God destroyed many hundreds of the fully insured airplanes, giving a needed windfall to our valiant, benevolent "JOB CREATOR HERO RICH PEOPLE".
Interesting claim.
Pilot Fighter
Well-Known Member
It’s not a well kept secret along the region’s tornado alley.
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
Also happens in Florida during hurricane season.