Just a little bit man of a aircraft managed to get tangled in some timber after failing to realize altitude following an aborted touchdown final week. The Cessna 150 crashed whereas attempting to land on the equally tiny Banks Airport on Swan Island in Maine on June 25.
Being in Maine, Banks Airport is of course surrounded by 1,000,000 timber (and, if you already know something about New England, 1,000,000 bugs.) Swan Island is blanked in Eastern White Pine, in keeping with Central Maine, which seems to be the timber that the Cessna crashed into. These timber can stay tons of of years and develop as much as 150 ft, in keeping with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They present a sturdy place for a sleepy Cessna to seize a fast snooze.
While the crash touchdown appeared light—and definitely was when in comparison with hitting the, you already know, floor—the aftermath proved it was something however, in keeping with News Center Maine:
Meghan Joyce was the witness who took the preliminary footage of the crash. She instructed Fox 22 News that the pilot appeared shaken, however unhurt:
“He said he was trying to land and realized he couldn’t and was trying to take back off,” stated Joyce.
Joyce instructed us she first went outdoors when she thought the aircraft was doing contact and go touchdown maneuvers.
When the crash occurred, Joyce says she instantly ran in direction of the scene of the crash and known as 911, saying, “Did you know your phone automatically calls 911 if you scream it while running?”
After making her means via the timber, she stated the pilot climbed out and appeared to solely have a damaged nostril.
“When I got there he was trying to get out,” stated Joyce. “He said he was fine. I was more worked up than he was, he was like, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine, calm down I’m good.’ He walked out of the plane, crawled out of it, and walked away from it.”
The Federal Aviation Administration says the aircraft is registered to Robert Kohut of Sag Harbor, New York, although he may stay on the 80-square-mile island or personal a summer season house there. The crash is now being investigated by the FAA.
Source: jalopnik.com