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Breathtaking Footage Shows the Moment a Plane Crashes into a Moving Vehicle in Texas
When William Davis asked his wife Kandy to record his first solo round-trip flight, he probably didn’t think the video would make national news. He also probably didn’t think he would crash into a moving car.
At Northwest Regional Airport in Texas over the weekend, Davis was landing his plane when he collided with a moving SUV. Miraculously no one was killed, but officials are still trying to determine how exactly it happened.
According to reports, cars aren’t supposed to drive in that area when planes are taking off and landing.
“When cars cross that area they are supposed to stop and wait for any airplanes,” Deputy Chief Gilbert Caldwell of the Roanoke Fire Department explained. “Either the plane didn’t see the car or the car didn’t see the plane.”
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PlayhousePalssays...*length=2:44
siftbotsays...The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 2:44 - length declared by PlayhousePals.
EMPIREsays...they were SO damn lucky. Had they been driving 1 mph slower, they would both be dead
robbersdog49says...If anyone thinks that's enough warning for drivers, they're idiots.
CrushBugsays..."The video shows the couple driving into the plane." I don't think so. I am pretty sure during driver training at no time was I told that I had to watch out for and yield to airplanes. Right where both of those vehicles were, I doubt they could see each other. That is just poor design, no matter what is painted on the road. You could be from out of town and have no idea what is possible there.
robbersdog49says...>> ^CrushBug:
"The video shows the couple driving into the plane." I don't think so. I am pretty sure during driver training at no time was I told that I had to watch out for and yield to airplanes. Right where both of those vehicles were, I doubt they could see each other. That is just poor design, no matter what is painted on the road. You could be from out of town and have no idea what is possible there.
Exactly right. It would never occur to me - not even if I knew there was an airport nearby - that a stop sign on the road would mean I was crossing a flight path. If there was a situation where I'd be driving across the flight path of landing aircraft I would fully expect more information. You get a warning sign a railway crossings, even though these are reasonably common and people know what they are. This road isn't crossing the runway, it's just close to one end. To a driver it looks just like a piece of road, nothing special about it at all. I'm fairly tall and drive a small car, so I wouldn't be able to see the plane without leaning right down to see the sky out of the far window of the car. It's not like driving out into traffic that you could be reasonably expected to know was there. Why are the people at the airport being so stupid about this?
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CelebrateApathysays...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign
"In the United States, stop signs have a size of 75 cm across opposite flats of the red octagon, with a 20mm white border. The white uppercase letters forming the stop legend are 25 cm tall. Larger signs of 90 cm (36 in) with 30 cm (12 in) legend and 25 mm (⅞ in) border are used on multilane expressways. Regulatory provisions exist for extra-large 120 cm (48 in) signs with 40 cm (16 in) legend and 30 mm (1¼ in) border for use where sign visibility or reaction distance are limited, and the smallest permissible stop sign size for general usage is 60 cm (24 in) with a 20 cm (8 in) legend and 15 mm (⅝ in) border."
In other words, anything else is not a valid or legal stop sign. This is the airport's fault, plain and simple.
jimnmssays...Looks like both are at fault here. The SUV didn't stop, and the plane is coming in way too low. Look at this satellite image of the airport, those yellow arrows pointing to the white line indicates a displaced threshold. Planes can takeoff from the displaced threshold, but they are not supposed to land on it.
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