Bizarre Photo: Private Plane Ends Up in the Middle of a German Street
- Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:25pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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The pilot of a tiny private Cesna sport plane made an emergency landing on a small street in western Germany, clipping the side of a house and a lamppost.
Police in Stockstadt am Main say no residents were injured and the 47-year-old pilot and his wife were only lightly hurt in Sunday’s crash of a Cessna in the densely populated area, the news agency DAPD reported. It said the street was only 16 feet (5 meters) wide.
Police said the plane was forced down due to a technical defect, but gave no details.
The Daily Mail reports that the couple have been hobby fliers for many years and had charted the plane earlier in the day to fly to Achaffenburg for a day out. Damage to the street has been estimated at £45,000. Air safety watchdogs from the German government took away the carcass of the Cessna to determine what caused the engine to fail.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Steev
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 2:02pmIt’s the microscopic gremlins put in the atmosphere by chemtrails ( done on a global scale ) trying to covertly promote a case for GloBULL warming control ! lol
Report Post »willbedone
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:21amWow! A 1966 Cessna 150 making a forced landing in Germany. THAT will teach him to trust Garmin.. I think that the pilot knows that Texas is BIG but not that big. Think he ran out of gas?
Report Post »wkw58
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 8:10amThat’ll be the talk at the the gasthaus for quite some time.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:52amPilot became lost. He was trying to get to the EAA event in Oshkosh.
Report Post »flynlownslo
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:37am1966 Cessna 150F registered to an aircraft LLC out of Texas.
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:39amI fly the 152‘s and 172’s and that was a spectacular landing!!!!
Report Post »WELL DONE PILOT!
chazman
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:30am… dam global warming messed up my airplane …
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:14ampast tense.
LOL
This bird…
“‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This [plane] is no more! [It] has ceased to be! [It's] expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! [It's] a stiff! Bereft of life, [it]
rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed [it] to the perch [it]‘d be pushing up the daisies! [It's] metabolic processes are now ‘istory! [It's] off the twig! [It's] kicked the bucket, [it's] shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-[AIRCRAFT]!!”
- Monty Python (Dead Parrot Sketch)
Report Post »Chesterlab
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:34amProbably terrorists. They missed the buildings though…
Report Post »BlackAce41
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:04amThese are the stupidest terrorist in the world
Report Post »Chesterlab
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:54pmHow much intelligence does it take to fly a 747 into Towers 1 and 2 of the WTC-or the Pentagon?
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:24amGet that plane out of my driveway!!!
Report Post »Anonymoose
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:29pmAnyone else notice that the plane’s registration number (N6619F) is a North American one? All North American private planes (as far as I remember) start with ‘N’. Das ist interesant.
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:09amexactly. What the story doesn’t say is where and when he got the plane. Until we learn that, there is a possiblity it was a purchase of an old plane newly arrived. It does look like an older model–70‘s maybe 80’s
Report Post »But that was a very good observation Anonymoose. I’m impressed. Not a lot of folks know that “N” designation, and even fewer would have noticed it anyway
Favored93
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:41amYup you are not wrong! That was a North American plane.
Report Post »bubbamoosecat
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 9:23amSomeone already pointed out above it’s a 1966 Cessna 150 registed in Texas.
Report Post »Jimm57
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:33amThats the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Reg No. How is this in Germany? I guess it’s possible to fly a US Reg plane in Europe, but how did it get there? Boat?
Report Post »M20J
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:50pmWhat’s an American registered C150 doing in Germany? (AIRCRAFT GUARANTY TITLE LLC TRUSTEE, ONALASKA, TX) Crusing at 105mph and four hours of fuel….it must of had one heck of a tailwind to make it across the pond! ;0)
Report Post »KusoJiJi
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:01pmmy guess its from an aero club on one of the US air bases in the region.
Report Post »JohnHW
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:20amThe Cessna also has an American flag on its tail. BTW: At 105 MPH, you have about six hours of flight and could make it using a great circle route (just hope you don’t get a head wind) during the summer, hitting every place there was fuel. I did it in 1973, but had two extra fuel blatters, one in place of the passenger seat and a smaller one behind the seats – extended my range to almost 1800 miles. I still landed in Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Island, and Scotland for refueling. I don’t like to see how far I can make it on fumes and no sleep.
Report Post »Phantom II
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:37pm@JohnHW. Well done. I’ve done many trans Atlantic crossings to Europe and Africa but in bigger aircraft. One must have a US pilots license to fly a November registered plane no matter which country it is flown. The plane must have a US owner and sponsored by a US trust company. Many Part 135 companies can do this.The trust company must cover insurance, landing fees, etc. As with all types of transportation, your plane yacht/ boat and car has a time limit that it can reside in other countries otherwise they will have to be registered there. There are many November registered aircraft in Europe mostly in Germany. Some are for rent but not to the general public. You must belong to a club. Some US military bases like Mannheim has an American club, you’d have to be a guest or affiliated with the US Military/DOD/government however.Mainz-Finthen also had an Aero club which has N-registered aircraft. There are many American tourists and non permanent residents who fly in Europe with November aircraft, myself included. You do this because it is a pain in the ass to maintain ICAO licenses and aircraft. It is possible to rent planes in England and Germany with your FAA certificates simply by having a check ride. Places like the Channel Islands can authorize your flight on the spot. If you don’t speak German or French, you may have to land at ‘international’ airports, where they are required to speak English. European pilots can keep their FAA Part 135 and 121 licensees current
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:41pmA second headline might read, “Green planes, like green jobs, crashes your community.”
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:40pmDamn fine landing
Report Post »notsofast
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:54pmGreat Landing!
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:40pmHeck of a landing! Everybody goes home. Pilot probably had to shake his leg a little afterward.
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:39pmIt’s a Cessna, Not a Cesna
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:36pmnot any more.
Report Post »T-BagginLiberalsinDamouth
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:31pmObama and his cronies try to re-do 9-11
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:27pmBeen there done that
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