C-152 Emergency Landing at Rancho Murietta

I was able to play it right on the web.. just below the picture to the right
of the article that shows the aircraft on it's back are the "stop/play"
buttons.. clicked on it and it played on the web page ok without opening
windows media player

BT

"Jose" wrote in message
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http://www.kcra.com/news/5844154/detail.html

The video shows...

What video? There is no valid link where it says "video" on the page as
it appears now. Got a direct link to the video?

Jose
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it played on the web page ok without opening
windows media player

It (most likely) opened windows media player as a helper app. I
apparantly don't have a sufficiently powerful machine to satisfy the web
designer, despite the fact that I can play other movies just fine.

Jose
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"Jose" wrote

It (most likely) opened windows media player as a helper app. I
apparantly don't have a sufficiently powerful machine to satisfy the web
designer, despite the fact that I can play other movies just fine.

It was very slow for me, also.
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"three-eight-hotel" wrote in message
ups.com...
Check out this link:

http://www.kcra.com/news/5844154/detail.html

The video shows the tracks left in the mud by the mains and front
tire...

As quoted by the news-copter, it appears to have been a text book
soft-field approach. You can see when he pans out that the mains are
the only tracks in the mud for several hundred feet, then the front
touches down, causing the plane to over-turn

Nobody was seriously hurt, thank God!

Best Regards,
Todd


A couple weeks ago that field would not have been soft ;-)

Forced to make a landing because of an electrical problem (according to the news chopper guy?)

Why did they call it a crash? Nobody was hurt, right? Plane looks pretty
intact, just upside down. Why don't they just call it a forced landing.

Michael Ware wrote:
Why did they call it a crash? Nobody was hurt, right? Plane looks
pretty intact, just upside down. Why don't they just call it a forced
landing.

Actually that would be called a "good landing". A "great landing" is one
where the plane can be used again.

"JohnH" wrote:

Michael Ware wrote:
Why did they call it a crash? Nobody was hurt, right? Plane looks
pretty intact, just upside down. Why don't they just call it a forced
landing.

Actually that would be called a "good landing". A "great landing" is one
where the plane can be used again.

Better yet is "off-field landing." Plane can be reused after a normal
landing.

Ron Lee

Michael Ware wrote:
Why did they call it a crash? Nobody was hurt, right? Plane looks pretty
intact, just upside down. Why don't they just call it a forced landing.


the journalist in the video was actually doing a pretty good
job IMHO at describing the incident just like that, i.e.,
nice forced landing, good soft field technique, not quite
perfect because of mud...

--Sylvain

I agree...

John Hamilton (the journalist), is actually quite good, and seems like
a really nice guy as well. I was watching some of the storm coverage
last week, in Sacramento, and he got up between (very close) systems to
tried and capture some of the localized flooding we were seeing in the
area. It was really gusty, and he aluded to that in a few of his
reports and interrupted one of his reports, saying that tower was
suggesting him to land, due to the next system that was nearing the
airport.

All this is not entirely relevant, but I thought I would add a little
commentary/opinion on the reporter himself. I have been very impressed
with him over the year or so that I've seen him reporting.

Best Regards,
Todd

He's actually the guy flying too so he should know something. In
general he did a good job. However, I would have added that the tail of
the plane is **designed** to withstand the force of flipping over. The
fact that the plane ended up on its back is something the design
engineers accounted for, flipping itself is not life threatening.

-Robert