100 Mile crash

[crazy horse]

Looks like a small plane hit a building at 100 Mile House BC.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... crash.html

[ALF]

Nasty looking wreck.

Hopes are with those onboard.

[cncpc]

Good news. From the Province. Appears to be a Yank airplane.

Three people are lucky to be alive after a Cessna 172 crashed into a building in the community of 100 Mile House B.C., say police.

RCMP Const. Lesley Smith said the incident took place around 3:45 p.m. Saturday, and the occupants have now been treated in hospital for non-life threatening injuries and been released.

"This could have been a tragic event, but at this time we only have the three people on board that suffered injuries and they were minor in nature," said Smith.

Jackie McDonald told a Kamloops radio station that she was outside her place of work when she saw the plane hit some wires across the highway, smash into a sign, lose a wing and skid across a parking lot into a building.

She said one of the occupants was covered in blood.

Smith said she doesn't know the ages of the occupants and the wreckage is now being cleaned up.

Smith said the Transportation Safety Board is investigating.



Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Mile+Ho ... z1xN0uFT9X

[iflyforpie]

100 mile is a tricky airport for those not familiar with it. Hopefully everyone is okay.

[JMACK]

And they walked away......Thank goodness!

[Moose47]

"Good news. From the Province. Appears to be a Yank airplane."

Nothing good about any accident buddy!

[Beefitarian]

The punctuation leads me to believe he thinks the people walking away was the "good news".

Good news (Stop)

From the province ( stop)

(separate idea)
Appears to be a Yank airplane (end)

But I did not read it that way first time either.

[cncpc]

"Good news. From the Province. Appears to be a Yank airplane."

Nothing good about any accident buddy!

Well, if you're looking to make an arse of yourself, you've made a good start.

We knew there was an accident before I made that post. People expect the worst. The Province story brought new information, that there were only minor injuries. I'm not sure what sort of dismal world you live in, but for the rest of us, I'd say that is good news. I'd seen the picture. It had numbers on the fuselage. On a wild guess, I'd say that's a Yankee airplane.

Unless you are an undertaker, most sane people would see an accident that people walked away from as being good news. Not the accident, the walking away.

And, one more thing. I'm not your buddy. Get that straight.

Ifly, yes, 100 Mile always has the potential for trouble especially with the wind out of the east. It'd have to be some wind to take that uphill takeoff. There's some days where no takeoff is the best idea. It looks like this guy went with the wind sock.

There was a terrible accident at Wells/Barkerville in the early 80's. A Ram 414 owned by the local mining company took the uphill in about 4 inches of snow and it ended very badly. 100 Mile is a lot worse than Barkerville as far as slope goes. Not so much with density altitude.

[trey kule]

Well, cncpc, the internet is not the best medium for discussion. Because, as it happens, like Moose, I found the percieved intent of your post a bit offensive..It reads like the good news was it was an American Plane....I believe you called it a "yank" plane.
Nothing about the good news being everyone walked away

As to the accident...hell...looks like the way my wife parks the car.

[cncpc]

Right, point taken. I see that now. Not the intention, though.

I can see that Moose thought that was the case, so apologies for the sharp retort, Moose.

[Rudy]

To be fair, if you build a house that's 100 miles long chances are an airplane is going to hit it.

[iflyforpie]

To be fair, if you build a house that's 100 miles long chances are an airplane is going to hit it.

But at 108 mile it is much harder to hit houses.

[Colonel Sanders]

AvCan continually broadens my horizons. I never thought of
"scorpion" as a verb in the context of aircraft operation.

The infinitive would thus be, "to scorpion". A use example
would be, "Did you see that guy scorpion that Cessna?!"

[tiggermoth]

Glad everyone was able to get out of that one in one piece.

AvCan continually broadens my horizons. I never thought of
"scorpion" as a verb in the context of aircraft operation.

The infinitive would thus be, "to scorpion". A use example
would be, "Did you see that guy scorpion that Cessna?!"

Colonel, I will admit, it took me a minute to get what the f*** you were talking about.......and then I scrolled back up and looked at the picture again. Now I have to clean coffee off of my keyboard

[Beefitarian]

Looks to be a be an inverted scorpion.

[oldncold]

i dunn know about you but dem flaps look REALLY extented too much for take off landn ok but not takeoff

[grimey]

That's a whipped puppy Colonel, the tail's between it's legs.

[Colonel Sanders]

it took me a minute to get what the f*** you were talking about

My apologies. On occasion my prose is somewhat dense and obscured. Perhaps even obfuscated, albeit wholly unintentionally. If it helps, I get the same feeling when I read Conrad Black's writings. Smart guy - far more so than I. We've been emailing for a couple years now, actually.

[cncpc]

i dunn know about you but dem flaps look REALLY extented too much for take off landn ok but not takeoff

Yes, well spotted.

It may be something to do with the other wing being torn off and some things much beyond my knowledge of how flaps work. I do recall an explanation like that in some previous crash.

Or they may have been set that way, but it does look like full flaps. Or he may have popped a bit on when the wires were coming up.

Some people for some reason want to put flaps on for takeoff in a 172. 100 Mile is a paved runway.

[iflyforpie]

The right wing has the flap motor in it. The up cable would have been the most likely one to break (since the flaps cannot go any further up) and then the motor pulling away with the down cable could have pulled the other flap down. It does look like it might have hit that door frame on the building too...

I use flaps on paved fields in a 172 just about every single time. Gets you off the ground faster, and contrary to what the POH/AFM says it clears you over obstacles faster as well provided you don't retract them until you are well clear.

[Moose47]

"I can see that Moose thought that was the case, so apologies for the sharp retort, Moose"

No worries. I did not get my antlers bent out of shape over it.

Cheer...Chris