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Wire Strike Info
I am compiling information on wire strikes for both airplanes and
helicopters. I would appreciate any help you may give. Stories, news clips, videos,pics, etc. I much prefer actual stories and not hangar rumor (got plenty of that already). I have some info from NTSB but feel there is a lot of info out there with some help in directions to access it. In my 50+ years of flying, I've hit at least 18 wires and logged them in aerial application operations with no resulting crashes. It includes one wire strike at night in helicopter. Any help or suggestions to gather more info are most welcome. Ol shy & bashful |
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Ol Shy & Bashful wrote: In my 50+ years of flying, I've hit at least 18 wires and logged them in aerial application operations with no resulting crashes. How did the wires make out? |
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Owen wrote: Ol Shy & Bashful wrote: In my 50+ years of flying, I've hit at least 18 wires and logged them in aerial application operations with no resulting crashes. How did the wires make out? Owen Most of them seperated as a result of the wire strike protection kits installed. Sure didn't make them any less scary though! One or two of them simply stretched and then slipped off with a big sag between the supports. The VAST majority were simple electric service wires going to houses, or barns, or well pumps, and a few telephone wires tossed in. Some barbed wire from a fence that finally broke off after the gear shook it loose. Fortunately no steel guy wires to cut off my wings or rotor blades but the one I hit at night was a steel horizontal support wire between two poles. The wire chattered off the blade and left chipped paint marks on the leading edge and back about 2-3". That one scared crap out of me and I was really lucky to get it back on the ground without a blade blowing up after the tip cap was nearly torn off. Blades had to be replaced but were nearly out of time anyway. I still shake my head looking at the photos of that one! Ol S&B BTW I am not all that unusual with the wire strikes or numbers as a long time pilot in aerial application. Common for nearly all of us but with greatly varying results/outcomes. Same with bird strikes. I've had hundreds of them including more than a few that came into the cockpit with me. |
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"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote: I am compiling information on wire strikes for both airplanes and helicopters. I would appreciate any help you may give. Stories, news clips, videos,pics, etc. I much prefer actual stories and not hangar rumor (got plenty of that already). I have some info from NTSB but feel there is a lot of info out there with some help in directions to access it. In my 50+ years of flying, I've hit at least 18 wires and logged them in aerial application operations with no resulting crashes. It includes one wire strike at night in helicopter. Any help or suggestions to gather more info are most welcome. Ol shy & bashful There is a photo floating around of a Cessna 150/152 hanging upside down in high-tension wires at Seattle's Boeing Field, maybe two years ago? There is the footage of the Cessna 172 with a student and instructor that tried to land on the road by a golf course in Florida last Fall. The aircraft struck telephone/electric wires and crashed. The instructor was killed. Other readers will recognize these and hopefully post other links. |
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"Ol Shy & Bashful" writes: I am compiling information on wire strikes for both airplanes and helicopters. I would appreciate any help you may give. Stories [...] This is second-hand, but if someone was interested I may be able to get a first-hand version. One of my old instructors flew in an Aztec back in the 70s, performing a non-precision instrument approach into a major Canadian airport, when due to a combination of instrument errors and other factors, he descended prematurely / too far, and hit some power wires near the airport boundary. As I recall the story, part of the tail came off, and the airplane smacked into the ground in a nearly level attitude. Major damage to the airplane but no injuries. He's still fond of Aztecs. - FChE |
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"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote in message ups.com... |I am compiling information on wire strikes for both airplanes and | helicopters. I would appreciate any help you may give. Stories, news | clips, videos,pics, etc. I much prefer actual stories and not hangar | rumor (got plenty of that already). I have some info from NTSB but feel | there is a lot of info out there with some help in directions to access | it. | In my 50+ years of flying, I've hit at least 18 wires and logged them | in aerial application operations with no resulting crashes. It includes | one wire strike at night in helicopter. Any help or suggestions to | gather more info are most welcome. | Ol shy & bashful | |
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"Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote in message ups.com... I am compiling information on wire strikes for both airplanes and helicopters. I would appreciate any help you may give. Stories, news clips, videos,pics, etc. I much prefer actual stories and not hangar rumor (got plenty of that already). I have some info from NTSB but feel there is a lot of info out there with some help in directions to access it. In my 50+ years of flying, I've hit at least 18 wires and logged them in aerial application operations with no resulting crashes. It includes one wire strike at night in helicopter. Any help or suggestions to gather more info are most welcome. Ol shy & bashful A piper ran out of fuel and ended up stuck in some big transmission lines near Kennesaw, GA 4 or 5 years ago. My power blinked momentarily, as I only lived a couple of miles away. Apparently, the pilot saw a long, straight dark area and was trying to dead-stick the airplane to a landing. The wires caught the plane. If I remember correctly, there were no fatalities. You should be able to find the story on-line somewhere. KB |
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Lots of aviation mishap pictures, including (I think) some power line
hangups) at http://www.micom.net/oops/ |
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