Plane lands near my work route

[Skywolf 992]

Hey guys,

I missed this on my drive to my practice today, and holy cow!  I am glad that everyone is okay!!!! 

That plane is a Mooney, and I love Moonies (my first GA ride was in a Mooney, hence the love).

https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2019/09/small-plane-crash-lands-on-route-50-in-bowie-may-have-hit-car/

 

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/small-plane-hits-vehicle-on-us-50-in-maryland-injuring-four-officials-say/2019/09/12/f918a0ce-d572-11e9-b00e-9e1a72cc6813_story.html

 

Be safe out there,

skywolf

Edited September 12, 2019 by Skywolf

[Jim Young 2,356]

It caused a major traffic jam for sure and I heard traffic was bad on the 4 PM NBC4 traffic reports.  Looks like it is all open now.

I am confused as to whether they were taking off or landing.  The news reports say they were landing but it appeared to me the fence between the airport and Route 50 was matted down. In the second link you provided, it shows a highway cone and police tape in the area of the fence before Route 50 and the aircraft did end up on the side of the guard rail on the airport side.  Strange they would have come in for a landing so low.  Think they had a problem with the takeoff. 

[John_Cillis 2,406]

It is good to see that those on the ground and in the air were not too seriously hurt.  I had the heartbreak of sitting home while I was working from home more than a decade ago, and I saw a Microlight Crash on TV near Lake Pleasant in Peoria, in far N/NW Phoenix. 

I recognized it immediately as the aircraft owned by the CFI who signed off on my Light Sport license, Jim Blumer.  It took five hours of calling before I found out he and his passenger survived unhurt, and the Dope/Fabric of his beloved Challenger II did its job.  It would have been a perfect engine out landing on Lake Pleasant Highway, but he clipped a roadsign.

https://planecrashmap.com/plane/az/N107BW/

John

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

Ouch, I guess it is an extremely rare situation to exchange insurance for damages when it come to a collision with an aircraft with a car. Glad no one was hurt