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Plane lands on truck
Topic Started: Dec 10 2004, 12:29 PM (58 Views)
Sophie
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A plane lands on a truck and then crashes

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Plane Lands Atop Truck Before Crashing

FABENS, Texas - A small plane that had lost power briefly landed atop an 18-wheeler before crashing onto the highway, authorities said. The two people aboard the plane came out unscathed, and the truck driver never heard a thing.

"Nothing happened to the truck, except for a couple of skid marks up top," said Trooper Lucila Torres, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The single-engine plane carrying an El Paso couple fell off the trailer and landed upside down on Interstate 10 during the emergency landing Thursday about 19 miles east of El Paso, Torres said.

Pilot Mark Taylor Davis, 45, and wife Mercedes Davis, 42, were returning home from Austin when the 1967 Mooney M20F developed engine trouble, state troopers said. The engine died before the plane could reach an airstrip in Fabens.

Truck driver Raymond Bennett White Jr., 44, of Dayton, Texas, told state troopers he didn't hear anything when the plane landed atop his trailer, Torres said.


How could he not hear anything?
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Dr. Noah
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18 wheelers are pretty loud.
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Fesarius
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Last night, my wife was beeping the horn at me--and she was right behind me. I had no radio on, and it was quiet outside. I have no idea why I could not hear it!
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Because it is behine you, and it is difficult to hear things behind you.
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Ngagh
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Huh?
Even when a blaring horn is going off. You are sure to pick up echos.
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24thcenstfan
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The plane must have been pretty lightweight for the trucker not to realize that it had landed on top of his truck. Then again, those rigs can be extremely loud.


That's wild though. Sounds like some bizarre stunt right out of a movie.
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Dandandat
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The man did a good job handling the satiation. I once had to pilot a Cherokee Warrior:

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from Connecticut to Long Island that had developed a malfunction in the engine just prier to take off. We got the malfunction patched up and took off 30mins behind schedulable, it was the scariest flight I had ever taken – the whole time wondering if the engine would hold together for the flight home. Not to mention since we where 30mins behind schedulable it placed the flight in the middle of dusk and then ended in darkness. At the time I was unaccustomed to flinging at night with out the ability to see where I was flying (reeling on instruments) and also landing at night. So the broken engine and night flight made it a scary flight, but on the pulse side it did hold one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen. Again since the flight was behind schedule we had to fly through the setting sun, the disappearing sun, the red, orange and yellows on the cloud tops and around the plane, and the reflections off the Sound where beautiful beyond words – and since we made it home alive it was all worth it.
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