Another plane down

A Cherokee with four persons on board when down just after take off from
Harrisburg Capital City Airport (my home base) Runway 26 earlier this
afternoon. Details are sketchy, at best. I just returned from the FBO at
that airport and folks there can say very little about this incident.
Here is a preliminary news report:
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4651740/detail.html

I'll post further details as they become available.
Arnold Sten

A Cherokee with four persons on board when down just after take off from
Harrisburg Capital City Airport (my home base) Runway 26 earlier this
afternoon. Details are sketchy, at best. I just returned from the FBO at
that airport and folks there can say very little about this incident.
Here is a preliminary news report:
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4651740/detail.html

I'll post further details as they become available.

Awful. Looks like three of the four aboard are dead, with only the
pilot surviving.

I thought I was witnessing a similar crash today, here in Iowa City.
My son and I were at a local store, around the corner from the inn,
just east of the departure end of Rwy 36.

Inexplicably, I looked up to hear/see a 182RG departing over my head.
With the 90-degree winds firmly out of the SOUTH, this guy was clearly
taking off with a fairly brisk tailwind.

Worse, Rwy 36 is only 2500 feet long now (with our newly displaced
threshhold) and departs into steeply rising terrain and downtown. As
he staggered over us, his wings were rocking and it looked to me like
he was steering to the west to avoid hitting the University of Iowa
Hospital -- but then I lost sight of him.

We both waited for the (seemingly inevitable) crash, but none came. He
apparently wobbled his way into the sky, probably scaring the bejeezus
out of himself, his passengers, and a few folks downtown.

Scary.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Arnold Sten wrote:
A Cherokee with four persons on board when down just after take off from
Harrisburg Capital City Airport (my home base) Runway 26 earlier this
afternoon. Details are sketchy, at best. I just returned from the FBO at
that airport and folks there can say very little about this incident.
Here is a preliminary news report:
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4651740/detail.html

I'll post further details as they become available.
Arnold Sten
Here is the latest updated information that I have been able to find
out. The plane was NOT a Cherokee but a Cessna (no announcement about
size or type). At 2200Z an official announcement was made on the media
that the only survivor, the pilot, subsequently died. On board that
plane were the pilot's wife and their two young daughters (ages not
given). Eyewitnesses on the ground reported hearing a rough-sounding engine.
At the time of this crash, the air temperature was 96 degrees. The
altitude of this airport is 347 ft., but at the time of this crash the
density altitude was 2291 ft.
I'll keep you all informed as more information becomes available.
Arnold Sten

Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

NVArt wrote:
Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

Sadly, the pilot, his wife, and two young daughters all perished in this
tragedy. Hopefully, all of us can all learn from his misfortune, once
the full NTSB report comes out.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Inexplicably, I looked up to hear/see a 182RG departing over my head.
With the 90-degree winds firmly out of the SOUTH, this guy was clearly
taking off with a fairly brisk tailwind.

Worse, Rwy 36 is only 2500 feet long now (with our newly displaced
threshhold) and departs into steeply rising terrain and downtown.

Glad they made it ok! But a displaced threshold shouldn't have
mattered--that doesn't reduce the distance available for takeoff (or for
landing in the opposite direction).

--Gary

WOW,
Didn't sound cheap to me! My thoughts and prayers go out to him, I know
he must need them about now.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"Arnold Sten" wrote in message
...
NVArt wrote:
Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

Sadly, the pilot, his wife, and two young daughters all perished in this
tragedy. Hopefully, all of us can all learn from his misfortune, once the
full NTSB report comes out.

"W P Dixon" wrote in message
...
"Arnold Sten" wrote in message
...
NVArt wrote:
Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

Sadly, the pilot, his wife, and two young daughters all perished in this
tragedy.

Didn't sound cheap to me! My thoughts and prayers go out to him, I know
he must need them about now.

I assume that the comment about "cheap lessons" was directed at the takeoff
at Iowa City airport Jay described, not the accident that motivated this
thread.

Pete

Were you responding to Arnolds post, or Jays post?
If you don't include at least a portion of the post that you are
addressing, then your post is meaningless as we don't know what you are
responding to!

Tony
--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Cessna 172H C-GICE

In article .com,
"NVArt" wrote:

Hopefully, he learned from this experience. I love cheap lessons!

Worse, Rwy 36 is only 2500 feet long now (with our newly displaced
threshold) and departs into steeply rising terrain and downtown.

Glad they made it ok! But a displaced threshold shouldn't have
mattered--that doesn't reduce the distance available for takeoff (or for
landing in the opposite direction).

Yeah, that didn't come out quite right.

I should have said "with our newly displaced threshold and the hundreds of
feet they've cut off the northern end of the runway."

Or something like that.

And soon (like, within a year) we'll lose that runway altogether.

:-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"