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And was it ever close to us!!
Took and released 12 tarpon early this morning
and later we're trolling a small island for snook.
A great morning fishing on Tres Gatos with my pal Tito.

A small plane crash lands on an tiny island beach
right beside our boat! Jets skis swarmed like hornets,
6 marine police boats arrived, TV helicopters hovering
so we skeedaddled out of there with a mini-hurricane
our backs. No one injured.

Enjoy the photos:

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Looks like he was lucky to put it down on that strip of beach...looks like you guys had a good day also!! Wonder which of you feels luckiest?
 
tinster...just one of those typical days tarpon fishing, crash landings, huricanes huh!!!...Hey I mowed the lawn so there!!
 
Just a pet peeve, that t'ain't a crash, that's just an off-field emergency landing /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

They do that in Alaska all the time for fun (well, maybe with a little more clearance from the trees though - this guy had less trees to deal with) /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

That kind of thing is why I always try to land my airplane (same kind in the picture) as if the engine quit, and then I try to do it as if I've got hardly any room or runway to deal with. Maybe one day it'll come in handy.
 
Heck, aerog, the plane in that clip was just landing on his normal field...did you see the tires on that sucker!!

Once I was riding with a friend when he decided he needed fuel...so, he landed on the highway between Anchorage & Fairbanks & taxied up to a gas station...guy ran out with a big ladder, climbed up on top & started pumping gas into the plane...when I asked my friend about the gas, he wasn't concerned because he used gravity feed!! Cranked her back up, taxied out to the highway, waited for traffic to pass & took back off! To everybody but me, it was business as usual.
 
The pilot did a fine job setting the plane down
on a very narrow beach, considering he had one
shot only with no engine.

Now we are wondering how $$ it will be for him to
get the plane off the island. We are guessing $5 to $10K.

And another cool thing. A group of land based marine police
comandeered a family boat with mom, dad and 2 young daughters
aboard and sped all over to the plane. The dad was stunned.
The kids thought it great fun.

d
 
Wonder if, after they've repaired/refueled it, he has enough room to take off & fly it home?
 
Tony:

He's got maybe 60 feet in front of him and about
200 feet behind him. A tiny island. We were in 9 feet
maximum of water beside the island that is actually
a sand bar with a few trees. I am surprised his wings
were not knocked off.

The storm right behind us was a terror!

d
 
Pull the wings and lift it on a barge with a cherry picker. Cost, about a couple grand. Don't know what the fine would be, if any.
 
Could a barge small enough to handle 6' to 9'
of draft still carry a crane w/ a large enough
boom, at such an extreme angle, to pick a plane
from about 50 feet offshore?

Unless the pilot was drunk, probably no fine.

d
 
Yes it probably could. Empty it weighs 1100lbs though. It isn't unusual to see someone take the wings off (that can be done really quickly if you know what you're doing) and stick one on a small flatbed made for a car.

I don't know what they're going to do, sounds like a helicopter with a sling would be the easiest option.
 
OK..I gotta expose myself..I posted then after a couple secs I deleted...but I had a blonde moment... I posted " replace the tires with pontoons"!!! Then figured he'd have to land back on water huh??? --chuckle--
 
Yeah, but thats not a bad idea. The only problem I see with it is you have to rig the airplane for the floats. That requires, I think, additional gear legs mounted behind the doors, plus support wires. Not an impossibility though /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Let's hope they had insurance, and someone there will deal with it.
 
tony barnhill said:
...guy ran out with a big ladder, climbed up on top & started pumping gas into the plane...when I asked my friend about the gas, he wasn't concerned because he used gravity feed!! Cranked her back up, taxied out to the highway, waited for traffic to pass & took back off! To everybody but me, it was business as usual.
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I knew a couple of guys that ferried helicopters from California to the east coast that would do that in some of the more remote areas in the south-west. A lot of people are running automotive fuel in their piston-powered airplanes, you just can't have any ethanol in it and the appropriate approvals.
 
aerog said:
Yes it probably could. Empty it weighs 1100lbs though. It isn't unusual to see someone take the wings off (that can be done really quickly if you know what you're doing) and stick one on a small flatbed made for a car.

I don't know what they're going to do, sounds like a helicopter with a sling would be the easiest option.
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-- aerog, nah buy the kit and bolt on the "floats". /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif
 
Heck... shove a couple of canoes under the three wheels and tow 'er out /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Let us know what you find out Tinster. The '152 club will no doubt be curious.

I belongs to a company (maybe a flight school or something) out of San Juan by the way.
 
aerog said:
It isn't unusual to see someone take the wings off (that can be done really quickly if you know what you're doing) and stick one on a small flatbed made for a car.
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Yup. had one make a landing on the 91 freeway out here last year. (god knows how he pulled that one off- it's 5 lanes on either side so he had plenty of room but even at 3am it is completely packed with traffic. The next day it was sitting in the "park and ride" lot off my exit on the way home and they were unbolting the wings as i drove by. Looks like he just taxied up the off-ramp and pulled it in a parking spot.
 
aerog said:
tony barnhill said:
...guy ran out with a big ladder, climbed up on top & started pumping gas into the plane...when I asked my friend about the gas, he wasn't concerned because he used gravity feed!! Cranked her back up, taxied out to the highway, waited for traffic to pass & took back off! To everybody but me, it was business as usual.
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I knew a couple of guys that ferried helicopters from California to the east coast that would do that in some of the more remote areas in the south-west. A lot of people are running automotive fuel in their piston-powered airplanes, you just can't have any ethanol in it and the appropriate approvals.
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My brother-in-law out in Oregon has done tricks like this fairly often with his big-tire Beaver. One of 5 planes and 8 gliders he owns. No, I am not jealous, why would you ask?

My son worked for (redacted) in Oregon whence they routinely flew secret missions over (redacted) for the black helicopter guys in the U.S. Govt. Their planes would routinely return from missions with bullet holes in the underbelly. Never got the super-sophisticated cameras, though. No, my son was not a pilot, he was a gopher.
 
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