Jet crash

[Issflareman]

http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstories_s ... 75149.html

Soungs like something that would happen to me in FS

[Fly2e]

I have been to Teterboro many times. It handles mostly corporate small jets. I think the biggest is the Gulfstream G550. There were 12 people aboard. There are fatalities. It is all over the news here.

The jet was about to take off but encountered some problem. It went through the fence at the end of the runway, across Rt. 46, (a 6 lane busy highway hitting one car), then over a 20 foot grass divider, then again across a two lane road, then crashed right into a strawberry warehouse with 250 emoployees working at that time. I saw some video. The warehouse has a perfect hole right in the wall. There is flames coming out of the building right now. The corporate jet was on its way to Midway airport in Chicago.

They say there is an unconfirmed number of fatalities both in the jet & the warehouse!

[Ben_M_K]

Thanks for the added info Dave... This is sad to hear. Jeez I just hate when ac crash.

[Clipper]

That's really awful. Bombardier head office is about 2 miles from where I work in Montreal. I'm listening to it on the radio. It's always disheartening to hear such tragic news.  :'(

[tvale80]

there are survivors of this crash

[Fly2e]

OK, I just listened to the NTSB briefing. Everybody survived. The pilot has a broken leg. The other 11 on board are in satisfactory condition. The plane hit  2 cars, one of the occupants of one of the vehicles is in critical condition. Nobody was hurt in the warehouse.
Goes to show how the media just loves to report death when they have NO facts!
The aircraft NEVER left the ground. They are looking into seeing if the plane was de-iced.
Glad to hear this.

Dave

[Ben_M_K]

Phew.... That turned a bad day into a good one! SO glad nobody died!!

[jrpilot]

[quote]The plane hit

[flyboy 28]

Yeah, Teterboro is a nice facility. Musta been scary for the pilot..

I can guarentee he will never fly for an airline..

[Hagar]

I hope the injured motorist recovers. This brings back memories of a tragic accident at Dunsfold, the Hawker Aircraft factory not far from me where the Harrier was developed & built. John "Cats' Eyes" Cunningham was the legendary WWII night-fighter ace & later became  chief test pilot at De Havilland.

In 1975 Cunningham was taking off from Dunsfold in an HS 125 when a flock of birds was sucked into the engines. He brought the plane down, but it ploughed across a road and killed the wife of a fellow pilot and five schoolgirls.

It was his first and only crash and, he said, the worst moment of his flying career.

He retired in 1980, and that year was awarded the Air League Founders' Medal as the outstanding test pilot of the post-war years.

He died in 2002 aged 84. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2146171.stm

[Issflareman]

phew, really good news!