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Well I was in the middle of fueling a 150 last night when I heard our customer service girl say something about a plane on one engine that is making an emergency landing at the field, and a bunch of fire trucks were on their way.
I walked into the FBO to clearify what she said.  Apparently a C-421 had lost an engine and was  coming in.  My thoughts went back to the 421 that is hangared on the field that took off not 30 min. before.  Sure enough it was him.  The great irony of it was that the owner takes horrible care of all of his aircraft (ignores regular maintinance).  I happen to like  421's and I thought it a shame to see it crash.
Anyways 3 fire marhals, 4 ambulances, a big red fire truck, and plenty of newsmen showed up to watch the plane land safely, coast in on to the taxiway and see me tow it to the MX bay.  Big hubub for nothing.  
A fuel line popped and was spraying fuel on to the turbo.  No fire.  Lucky pilot there.

I got on the 5:00 news.

Lucky break for him (the lack of fire, that is), and lucky break for all of us that the media only got to cover a successful emergency landing...

its too bad successful e-landings only get about a 5 second spot on the 10 o'clock news unless fox catches it live and plays it all day waiting for a fire ball!

had there been a crash they would have jabbed on about it for a good 5 - 10 minutes on the 6:00 and 10:00 and the early edition and a front pager in the paper with interviews of witnesses and family etc

gotta love the media, always hunting bad news

at least thats what happened when we lost a local private in a chopper. every red neck and know nothing comes out from under every rock and log to put his two cents in about how ---

"..an engine sputtered and the whole thang flipped upside down and went all to whirlin around like he was havin sum trubble."

That brings up a funny conversation I had with a Commander pilot.

He Stated that you couldn't pay him enough money to do a miners job.  Then I told him there are alot of miners who would say the same thing about flying in a plane.

[quote]The great irony of it was that the owner takes horrible care of all of his aircraft (ignores regular maintinance).

Hardly sounds ironic to me. I would say it was inevitable. He was lucky this time. Maybe he'll learn a valuable lesson from it.

Pilot?  Learn?  I think not.

[quote]Pilot?