and will the LBPD be prosecuted for the accident? But doesn't a helo pilot
has to take due care that his rotor wash does not do damage.

I had the same problem a few years back.. a helo doing hover practice on the
parallel runway.. unseen blade winds.. lifted and pushed my landing glider
sideways.. I had seen the helo, and expected some winds.. I was ready.. felt
the lift,, closed the spoilers.. and landed long beyond the rotor effects.

The poor T-18 pilot never had a choice.
BT

"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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At least when we screw up, we don't kill them.

Today at Compton airport one of the old timers was landing his T-18,
just past the threshold when a Long Beach PD helo flew directly over
him. The downwash flipped him over. He died on the way to the
hospital.

Strange that a student pilot is solo in a Bonanza - he must own it.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:12:04 -0800, "MRQB" wrote:

:A single-engine airplane crashed into the Farmington Police Department
:Thursday night, but everyone, including the pilot, survived.
:A student-pilot was the only person aboard the six-seat plane when it
:crashed into the building just after 7 p.m. Thursday.
:
:Police say ten inmates in a holding area at the department were safely
:transferred to the San Juan County Detention Center.
:
:Fire Marshal Herb Veazey says the student-pilot suffered head and facial
:injuries but was conscious when he was transported to San Juan Regional
:Medical Center.
:
:"There's some structural damage inside the building a lot of glass and
:debris strewn about...bent and twisted I-beams inside the office area,"
says
:Veazey. "We have a lot of fuel leaking down inside the building."
:
:Farmington police say the student-pilot was practicing take-offs and
:landings at Four Corners Regional Airport. It has a runway about 400
yards
:from the department.
:
:"I was pulling into the back entrance of the police department when a
plane
:was on coming on a north western approach to the airport and appeared to
:have lost power and fell straight into the north end of the building of
the
:Farmington police department," says Sgt. Hardy.
:
:The Federal Aviation Administration says the airplane, a Beechcraft
Bonanza,
:apparently lost power before the crash.
:
:The plane crashed into the roof at the station's detective area. Two
:detectives in the building escaped without injury.
:
:Authorities worked through the night to remove the remarkably intact
plane
:from the roof of the facility.
:
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