plane lands on I-94 near Jamestown

[52Romeo]

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/a ... /homepage/ Patrick Paul William, of Salem, Ore., was flying a 1941 Taylorcraft plane from Inver Grove Heights, Minn., to Oregon,,anyone here in Oregon know him,,,

[qmdv]

"He’ll just take off from there when the conditions are good enough,” Kaiser said

My kind of Sheriff.

Tim

[GumpAir]

Doesn't look like a fun day to go T Cart flying.



Gump

[58Skylane]

"He’ll just take off from there when the conditions are good enough,” Kaiser said

My kind of Sheriff.

Tim

X2!!

[58Skylane]

Well, when the pilot of the T-Craft is ready to take off from the road, hopefully he WON'T do what this Cessna pilot did

[courierguy]

The Darwin Award (for pilots) winner! So THATS why it's usually "the plane that landed on the road was hauled off", thanks to this guy?

[senior]

If that's a snowplow coming...it'd scare me

[iceman]

yup we had one here in the San Diego back country a couple years ago... Landed on the freeway... fixed it and CHP wouldn't let him take off... Had to take the wings off and haul it to a airport... practically no traffic on the freeway out there...

[qmdv]

If that's a snowplow coming...it'd scare me

Three foot N Numbers

Tim

[mtv]

Man, I looked at the weather that day, and it SUCKED across that part of the world. Glad he got it on the ground without adding a statistic.

MTV

[Littlecub]

RE:CHP

CHP wouldn't let him take off... Had to take the wings off and haul it to a airport... practically no traffic on the freeway out there...

I was FD in SoCal for a while (long ago) and frequently interacted and observed.......
CHP tends to enjoy flexing their 'Power'......(understatement)....
But they DO have 'The Power' if it is a road ("All roads-All codes" as they used to say)......

lc

[qmdv]

Navada H P let me take off from I-80 just east of Wells. Not typical So Cal trafic though.

Tim

[Twofiveecho]

A few years ago, I drove my truck with a trailer and 2 tractors between Jamestown and Fargo. In 80 miles I met 2 westbound vehicles and was passed by 1 eastbound car. Absolutely flat and straight and power lines more than 50 feet from edge of pavement. Could not have a better landing strip.

FAR's have no restriction against landing on highways. Local and state ordinances may apply, usually due to impeding flow of traffic.

Gene

[Stol]

yup we had one here in the San Diego back country a couple years ago... Landed on the freeway... fixed it and CHP wouldn't let him take off... Had to take the wings off and haul it to a airport... practically no traffic on the freeway out there...

Heck..... That is easily fixed...

Wait for the 'shift change'. While the "officer" is gone..... The story will read : the plane was being handpropped and mysteriously started and the throttle was stuck wide open. The 'pilot deemed the safest way to prevent injury or damage was to take off......

Next question.

[courierguy]

Next time anyone is driving by Little America, the huge truck stop compound on I-80 in Wyoming, note the frontage road on the north side. I've HEARD a pilot landed there once, taxied over to the very edge (out of the way) of the parking area, and then the pilot made the short hike for fuel. When he had landed and parked, he was screened from view by several semi trailer. In the 10 minutes or so it took him to get the fuel (yeah, in plastic jugs no less) and was walking back to the out of view plane, a Wyoming state trooper had appeared and was writing a ticket out to a trucker, right on the other side more or less of the yet unseen parked airplane.

The pilot actually walked within 50' of the busy trooper on the way back to the plane. Then he quickly dumped the needed fuel in, and without a lengthy runup, in fact it appeared he started rolling as soon as he cranked it over, as if he was concerned the trooper, now knowing there was an airplane taxing away on a state highway within 200' of him would have objected, took off and flew directly away from the trooper at a high rate of speed and a low altitude. The frontage road, straight, wide, long, and totally without any traffic, seemed to do pretty well as a makeshift runway.

It was never determined whether or not the trooper had a problem with any of this, but I'm told that every time since the event (20 years ago) the pilot in question drives by Little America, he smiles.

[hicountry]

Next time anyone is driving by Little America, the huge truck stop compound on I-80 in Wyoming, note the frontage road on the north side. I've HEARD a pilot landed there once, taxied over to the very edge (out of the way) of the parking area, and then the pilot made the short hike for fuel. When he had landed and parked, he was screened from view by several semi trailer. In the 10 minutes or so it took him to get the fuel (yeah, in plastic jugs no less) and was walking back to the out of view plane, a Wyoming state trooper had appeared and was writing a ticket out to a trucker, right on the other side more or less of the yet unseen parked airplane.

The pilot actually walked within 50' of the busy trooper on the way back to the plane. Then he quickly dumped the needed fuel in, and without a lengthy runup, in fact it appeared he started rolling as soon as he cranked it over, as if he was concerned the trooper, now knowing there was an airplane taxing away on a state highway within 200' of him would have objected, took off and flew directly away from the trooper at a high rate of speed and a low altitude. The frontage road, straight, wide, long, and totally without any traffic, seemed to do pretty well as a makeshift runway.

It was never determined whether or not the trooper had a problem with any of this, but I'm told that every time since the event (20 years ago) the pilot in question drives by Little America, he smiles.

I do believe that frontage road was part of the original US Highway 30..I remember stopping at Little America before I-80 was built..quite the oasis back then as there was nothing for miles on US 30.