Brooks DC-4 crashlanded
Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:50 pm
Brooks DC-4 crashlanded.... Info and Pics.....Thankfully no one was hurt. The plane looks to be a write-off.
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/tmp-photos-6.htm
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/tmp-photos-6.htm
Last edited by slinky on Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:53 pm
darn! That sucks. I hope the crew was ok.
Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:54 am
#2 Engine missing? 
Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:04 pm
Sorry to learn about this. Glad to know the crew is OK. This was the DC-4 I became typed rated in when it was operated by Aero Flite. Roger just very recently purchased this airplane (T-161) and earlier purchased T-160. Well, Tanker 162 is still at Kingman and I would imagine he'll grab that now too.
Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:46 pm
Very sorry to hear this, but so glad that everyone seems to have made it out ok. I was in Fairbanks last August, and the guys at Brooks couldn't have been nicer. They allowed me to take some photographs at their facility, which you can see here if you are interested.
All the best, Richard
http://www.rmallnutt.com/brooks/
All the best, Richard
http://www.rmallnutt.com/brooks/
Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:16 pm
there must have been a few nerves trying to put a burning plane with 3000gals of heating oil down amongst the trees. glad they are ok.
Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:04 pm
Its not the 300 gallons of heating oil that I would be worried about...its the 3,000 gallons of much more volatile 100LL inside of a burning wing that would be my first concern.
Someone was watcing over these two, thankfully.
Someone was watcing over these two, thankfully.
survival
Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:24 pm
The fact that the crew walked away is both from their good flying in an emergency and the strenght of these old prop airliners. There have been many DC-3 -C-47 s put down sucessfully where jet might hav been a disaster. Aspen Airways for year flew Convair 580s from Denver to Aspen and other mountain towns. On day, somehow they underfueled and when they flew to Durango and on the way back to Denver they ran out of fuel. They could not make an airport or even a road so went down in a field. There was no fire and everyone walked away. Now we've got fancy jet airliners here and part of the time they can't fly. I never remember the Convairs being unserviceable.