Plane Crash La Ronge

[slowgoingho]

Just broke over the news here is a link. I hope everyone is ok.

http://www.newstalk650.com/story/20090204/11661

[otter fan]

CCE? That really sucks. I really like TWA and all the staff. I really hope everyone is OK.
Any more details out there?

[ypamcvey]

As far as I know everyone walked away.

[xsbank]

(Don't call me Shirley) that must be a mechanical? I'm glad everyone is OK.

Don't forget to check for contamination.

Practise your drills and stay safe out there!

[Donald]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/s ... ident.html

1 injured in northern Sask. plane accident

A person on a small plane was injured Wednesday following a failed takeoff at the airport in La Ronge, Sask.

The Transwest Air twin-engine Otter with seven people aboard was headed for Deshambault Lake, but something went wrong.

A witness told CBC News it appeared the plane bounced off the runway and came to rest in some trees.

On board were five people connected with the provincial court and two crew members, the RCMP said. The injuries the one person received aren't considered life-threatening, the RCMP said.

Officials with Transwest Air weren't commenting when contacted by CBC News Wednesday morning.

The incident is under investigation, the RCMP said.

La Ronge is about 250 kilometres north of Prince Albert.

[Doc]

Pretty unusual behavior for a Two Otter.....?

[Cat Driver]

You mean this Doc?

A witness told CBC News it appeared the plane bounced off the runway and came to rest in some trees.

Naw, that is just the media.

[chu me]

Cue unfounded speculation in....... three.......two.......one

[Doc]

Cue unfounded speculation in....... three.......two.......one

Okay...I'll go first. Crew rotated early to avoid a squirrel that had wandered onto the runway. Encountered uncontrollable buffet due to the squirrel voiding itself, and the rising gas associated with same, lost control and came back, less than gracefully to rest in the nearby birch trees.

Your turn...

[yzfer]

Cue unfounded speculation in....... three.......two.......one

Okay...I'll go first. Crew rotated early to avoid a squirrel that had wandered onto the runway.

Your turn...

There they go again, conspiring to raise our insurance rates again. Damn squirels.

[double-j]

This just in.. photo taken moments after accident.

[Cat Driver]

I heard through a reliable source that it was a Moose on the runway, the Moose saw the airplane coming and shit its self, they missed the Moose but the wings were contaminated with moose shit...got out of ground effect and stalled.

[Rudder Bug]

Apparently, the captain's glass eye fell into his beer and he lost control in an attempt to pick it up with his artificial hand ( a hook for instance).

[Siddley Hawker]

Or he forgot he was wearing the hook and attempted to scratch his ass.

[Flybaby]

Or he forgot he was wearing the hook and attempted to scratch his ass.

or his balls!!

[rum-runner]

Or he forgot he was wearing the hook and attempted to scratch his ass.

or his balls!!

Who said it was a "he"

[Tubthumper]

....could've been flying squirrels.....

[bobcaygeon]

Maybe it was squirrel boy from YTH!!!

On a more seriuos note, if it was CCE it will be a sad day. How it lasted this long without serious bendage is amazing(station 60's don't count) with that incredible training program in La Ronge. I wonder if the crew as they descended back to earth could hear in an english accent "a least pretend to know what your f#$king doing" or maybe "hamfisted bastard!!" You know kind of like a GPWS

I'm sure that has been heard in that plane many a time. Or maybe it was just for me ??

[Bushav8er]

I heard it was a sparrow but whether it was a European or African sparrow is unknown, however the African sparrow is larger.

Glad everyones ok.

[slowgoingho]

Seriously though, witnesses stated that they saw snow flying off the wing on takeoff. SO maybe the flight crew took off without ensuring their wing was clean.

[Cat Driver]

Ahhhh failure to accelerate to snow removal speed before rotation. ( Vsr )

[Four1oh]

[The Old Fogducker]

Bobcaygeon:

A little bird that only migrates to YVC in the summer assures me that the screaming, impatient, swearing, belittling, hand-hitting style of training from the dark ages continues in YVC but now it is accent neutral. An added bonus for people new to the airplane .... the excersizes for a training flight are never pre-planned or assigned, and only under rare circumstances are you pre or post flight briefed.

The "airborne only" training program consists of playing "129 questions" to find your weaknesses and show the training pilot's superiority. Sayings like "I hope I don't have to pablum fed you around here" are always a guaranteed motivator, as is "If you were a decent pilot, you'd be picking this up faster ... you saw it done when we flew at the beginning of last week on your first flight."

Of course, this always makes for an excellent learning environment, as he sincerely believes he is doing an absolutely superb job as a training pilot, but he is being given nothing but a steady stream if incompetent jerks to train that hate him on a personal level and are intentionally "playing dumb" to piss him off on every single flight.

So Bobcaygeon, you can see history repeats itself in La Ronge, albeit without the exotic "old sod" accent.

Cat ... here is a place where your experience can be used to very good purpose. These guys who are enduring this "training" punishment are buddies of mine for more than 25 years. What would you recommend?

Fog

[Four1oh]

Oh dear. I heard about the Accent, but where did he go? Too bad nothing changes.

[Cat Driver]

Cat ... here is a place where your experience can be used to very good purpose. These guys who are enduring this "training" punishment are buddies of mine for more than 25 years. What would you recommend?

Fog

Fog, there is only one cure for incompetent flight training.

Remove the incompetent and replace them with teachers who understand the importance of proper teaching skills...combined with understanding the art of flying and thinking at the same time.

Once upon a time there was a pilot in a company that had a large pool of pilots, said pilot was incompetent to the point he was a danger to not only the flying public but to himself.

He had one talent though and that was he was the company stool pigeon who kept a close watch on what the pilots said and did and dutifly reported to the company.

One night he came home to the staff house drunk to find the lights did not work in the hall way.....the next thing he noticed was he was lying in a bed in the hospital hurting real bad.

From that time on he became a real meak lamb who never even thought of ratting on his colleagues......his flying skills however remained sub normal.

Now I will probably get my nuts squeezed again by the training monkeys.

Note:

" Training monkeys " those who should not be allowed to train.