Fortunately the two persons on board the aircraft and the person in the SUV were all uninjured.
News Video aircraft was departing North Las Vegas when it clipped hydro lines and came down in traffic clipping the roof of an SUV.
I’m not saying anything other than if your going to get hit by an aircraft while driving, well here is the pilots name; TANG YUN CHIEH !!!
Wow. been alot of crashes there lately.
i suspect people are buying planes that they could never afford, or are flying planes alot more than they used to fly them. and with the weather nearing winter conditions, lazy pilots are being filtered out of the gene pool.
In Vegas? Last one that I specifically remember was a little under a year ago when a pilot lost just about everything and crashed into a house about 15 blocks from my apartment there. After that, there hasn’t been anything like a slewful of crashes at VGT.
I’m less than 2DME from the thresholds of both 12R and 7.
BL.
Someone was watching over these people. Especially the man in the convertible
Yea. If it hit the man in the convertible, it probably would have killed him.
In Vegas? Last one that I specifically remember was a little under a year ago when a pilot lost just about everything and crashed into a house about 15 blocks from my apartment there. After that, there hasn’t been anything like a slewful of crashes at VGT.
I’m less than 2DME from the thresholds of both 12R and 7.
BL.
Well, I guess in the past four years…
Not even that.
There were 43 in the past 10 years. Of those 43:
32 of the accidents were pilot error, 7 were mechanical issues, 1 was controller error, 1 was pilot incapacitation, and 2 were unknown.
3 of the accidents involved experimental aircraft.
28 of the accidents happened on airport property.
Total, there were 15 accidents in the last 4 years, making 28 for the remaining 6. But the FAA FSDO is doing the smart thing. They are advising the Clark County Dept. of Aviation to buy all available land adjacent to VGT, as well as lobby NLV and Las Vegas to pass legislation to prohibit residential house construction or any other land use withing the immediate vicinity of VGT. NLV is already addressing that.
But on the whole, between 1/1999 and 9/2009 there were some 2.2million takeoffs and landings at VGT, with the aforementioned 43 accidents. That isn’t bad.
BL.
Wow… Thanks.
“The plane was crumpled and the SUV sustained roof damage” Uhhh Ya think?
The reporter took a piece of the airplane for his live remote…bet the NTSB will want that back.
I was thinking the same exact thing!!!