MSNBC: a Beauty!

[Bob Chilcoat]

I had MSNBC on in the background this afternoon. The reporter suddenly says
a small plane is down on a thruway ramp. I look up and see an overhead
video from a helicopter of a 172 parked alongside an exit ramp with a couple
of police cars parked around it . Reporter says pilot lost engine power and
was forced to land on the thruway. Not too bad, think I, until she adds
"The small jet was pushed off the exit ramp after it successfully landed on
the highway. There was no damage." Sigh...

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

[Tom Pappano]

Bob Chilcoat wrote:
> I had MSNBC on in the background this afternoon. The reporter suddenly says
> a small plane is down on a thruway ramp. I look up and see an overhead
> video from a helicopter of a 172 parked alongside an exit ramp with a couple
> of police cars parked around it . Reporter says pilot lost engine power and
> was forced to land on the thruway. Not too bad, think I, until she adds
> "The small jet was pushed off the exit ramp after it successfully landed on
> the highway. There was no damage." Sigh...
>
> --
> Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)
>
>
>

Was that near Bristow OK? A plane here landed on the turnpike with a
fuel problem. Pilot supposedly cleared some water and took off again
while the Highway Patrol held traffic. The plane had departed RVS
and apparently made it about 40 miles before having problems.

Tom Pappano, PP-ASEL-IA