Twin Beech emergency landing on Florida Highway, no injuries

[C VEICH]

I assume this must be a current news story though I did not see a date anywhere.

http://www.aol.com/video/vintage-plane- ... d%3D293091

[The Inspector]

Looks like both engines still run, fly it home, pretty tough decision.

[WallyB]

I assume this must be a current news story though I did not see a date anywhere.

April 2. N737SW is a Beech E18S from 1959 so no military history I assume.

[Cherrybomber13]

Silly question but would the FAA let them fly it back out of there?

[mike furline]

Silly question but would the FAA let them fly it back out of there?

Each location/situation is different, but yep it's been done in the past.

[51fixer]

Silly question but would the FAA let them fly it back out of there?

Each location/situation is different, but yep it's been done in the past.

It flew out off the same road.

[The Inspector]

Youtube the guy in the 210 (CESSNA TAKEOFF CRASH) who was going to fly his airplane off a road after running out of fuel, but no one took into account how the fuel truck that filled him up was parked about 350 feet from the application of power-rutroh!

[DH82EH]

Epic save!
Nice job by the folks in that cockpit.

Is it just me? or is the mainstream media just unbelievably clueless when it comes to anything aviation? I don't think I could imagine anything more phony or manufactured sounding

Thanks for the post!

Andy Scott

[Stephan Wilkinson]

is the mainstream media just unbelievably clueless when it comes to anything aviation?

Well, it would probably be about like you trying to write something about Formula 1 racing, since I assume you've never driven an F1 car.

[C VEICH]

is the mainstream media just unbelievably clueless when it comes to anything aviation?

Well, it would probably be about like you trying to write something about Formula 1 racing, since I assume you've never driven an F1 car.

Maybe so but I always kind of thought that a reporter's job pretty much focused on researching a story in order to accurately report on it. Isn't that essentially the definition of being a reporter?

[The Inspector]

is the mainstream media just unbelievably clueless when it comes to anything aviation?

Well, it would probably be about like you trying to write something about Formula 1 racing, since I assume you've never driven an F1 car.

Maybe so but I always kind of thought that a reporter's job pretty much focused on researching a story in order to accurately report on it. Isn't that essentially the definition of being a reporter?

You must not watch a lot of 'NEWS' on TV or read what's 'reported' in the newspapers Now a days, every story is geared to run less than 120 seconds or they risk having the audiences distracted and punching the TV remote controller.
Give Don Henleys 'Dirty Laundry' a listen about the 'news'.

[Stephan Wilkinson]

I'm a nonfiction aviation-magazine writer, not a reporter, not a "journalist," but I do understand some of what they're up against. You need to understand that a newspaper, or a TV station, particularly these days, doesn't have a huge staff of specialists: a pilot who's the aviation reporter, an MD who covers all the medical stuff, a law-school grad who handles legal, an automotive engineer who covers traffic accidents, an ex-merchant seaman who handles the shipping news...

It's all the same person, or two, and they're also covering the school board, the city's zoning hearings, environmental stories, the police beat...and there are only so many hours in a day.

[bdk]

And oftentimes they spout opinion as fact...

[Rajay]

And often times they spout opinion as fact...

That bothers me too, but the thing that really sets me off, and Diane Sawyer of ABC News seems to be guilty of this all too frequently, is the use of hyperbole in reporting the "facts" of the "news". She's "always" sensationalizing things and blowing them out of proportion by saying stupid things like "everyone" was "watching this" or "talking about that" or "praying for" whatever.

I call it the "Entertainment Tonight" influence on the News. It's not much more than "short-attention-span" theatre for people who don't want to have to think for themselves and I hate it. I wish more people hated it too - 'cuz then maybe the networks would stop doing it and we could see some journalistic integrity again such as that regularly shown by Murrow and Cronkite!

[PropsRule]

Did Murray Walker ever drive an F1 car?

Speaking of misbehaving R985s, many years ago a friend of mine was called out to DHC-2 Beaver floatplane which had made a forced landing nearby. The engine on the Beaver just flat out quit, and lucky for the pilot, there was a large pond not too far off. It was going to be tight, but being on straight floats it was the best choice, so he made it work.

The necessary repairs were made, engine runs carried out (that's another story) and then it was decision time with regards to getting out of there. Option A was to fly out, and option B was to disassemble it and truck it out.

In the end they flew it out. Thankfully the Beaver lived up to its reputation and climbed off the pond without much drama.