The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Fatman on December 17, 2008, 11:58:13 PM
-
British pilot hits cow during emergency landing
Wed Dec 17, 9:04 pm ET
LONDON – A British pilot said he ran into an unusual hazard while making an emergency landing — a cow. Rob Wotton said he was trying to land his World War II-era Tiger Moth after the engine stalled just after takeoff southwest of London on Sept. 14. He was about to touch down in a field when the animal wandered into his way.
Video of the event on YouTube shows the brown-and-white cow being knocked to the ground by the plane's lower left wing. The two-seater was damaged but landed safely.
An accident report said the cow was "apparently uninjured."
Wotton said he might paint a cow on the plane to mark the event.
He says: "I have to say it is the first cow I have ever hit in 22 years' flying."
___
On the Net:
Accident Report (PDF): http://tinyurl.com/4tlltn
http://www.youtube.com/v/SCk4ywD_yyM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"
-
Just grazed.
While grazing.
-
Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing...don't know if that applies to bovines.
-
I can hear the phone call from the pilot to his wife:
Wife: "How was your flight honey?"
Pilot: "You're not going to believe this, but I hit a cow!!"
Wife: (long pause) "Were you on the ground?"
(the wife is blonde in the above conversation)
Now I better hide from Marshallette, lest she kick my a$$ for that blonde comment. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
-
So much for steak as the 'in-flight' meal.
;D
-
I can hear the phone call from the pilot to his wife:
Wife: "How was your flight honey?"
Pilot: "You're not going to believe this, but I hit a cow!!"
Wife: (long pause) "Were you on the ground?"
(the wife is blonde in the above conversation)
Now I better hide from Marshallette, lest she kick my a$$ for that blonde comment. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Why don't you just sit on that firecracker bucket and save her the effort? ;D