OKC - Plane tried to land on NW Expressway?

[scongdon]

I was doing some errands this afternoon, turned onto NW Expressway at Rockwell (Just North of Wiley Post), and saw cop cars lined up like a chorus line. No details yet, but here's a picture I snapped driving by.

Looks like the guy tried to put 'er down in the Westbound lane.

*EDIT* link: http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=66622

 

[Jfk-Pilot]

just great, another awesome v-tail bonanza is going to get scrapped by the time i will be able to afford to buy one of my own, there wont be any left .

 

[dc3flyer]

Why is the hood up on the cop car? Trying to give the plane a boost?

 

[scongdon]

All the cop cars had their hoods up. Aside from the fact it beat 100 down here today, I'm not sure why.

 

[Chris Barnes]

Saw that on the news today. We drove by at about 9:30 tonight and it was gone. One of the passengers died.

They had 5 people onboard. 3 women and 2 men. Keep in mind that the V35 only has 4 seats...

 

[greg1016]

Yeah, is that a criminal offense or just stupidity? I noticed that too.

 

[scongdon]

When I went into the Sprint store right down the road, I asked the lady working the desk about it.

"Oh yeah, I heard they had nine people on it."

In my best auto-mechanic voice,

"Well theah's ya phrablem right thea."

 

[reddn]

cop cars sometimes idle for long periods for no good reasons... so they keep the hoods up so it will have less of a chance of over heating while it sits there...

flashing lights

Why is the hood up on the cop car? Trying to give the plane a boost?

 

[reddn]

and keeping the inside cold while no one is in it

 

[greg1016]

cnn reported 5 ppl, same as the previous poster stated.

 

[Sunburn]

Umm..... Maybe I'm misremembering, but I was thinking that the BE35 had a total of 6 places (Pilot, co-pilot, and four passengers)

 

[greg1016]

http://www.koco.com/news/20184374/detail.html

the pilot died

the capacity of the plane depends on the year, this one was a V-tail, so it had 4 place seating

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Bonanza

 

[AnImbroglio]

Wonder why it went down originally? I'm sure the added weight might've had something to do with it.

 

[greg1016]

The initial news report said "engine troubles" but who knows what that means, it could mean the plane was over weight

 

[swinte00]

Here's some brief details on the A\C in question:

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=9112S&cmndfind.x=0&cmndfind.y=0

 

[maksvell]

I was driving right by it when it fell. So said that he was like 1 mile short of the runway. Good thing he didn't slam into my appartment