![]() At 15:59:03, the first officer requested a wind check. The flightcrew requested runway 10 for the takeoff and ground control cleared the flight to taxi to runway 10. Before leaving the gate, the flightcrew had received ATIS message Foxtrot which read in part ".time one eight five five Zulu, weather, two thousand five hundred scattered, two five thousand thin broken, visibility six miles in haze, temperature niner zero, wind two four zero at two, winds are calm altimeter three zero zero one.". At 15:58:48 Boeing 727 "Clipper Defiance" taxied from its gate at the New Orleans International Airport. Pan Am Flight 759 was a scheduled flight from Miami (MIA) to Las Vegas (LAS), with an en route stop at New Or1eans (MSY). Also, the left engine had evidence of heat and wear due to lack of oil. ![]() It had been installed with a small bend radius. The hose was 8 years old, its recommended replacement interval was 5 years. A further exam revealed that an oil interconnect line, Piper pn: 920024-811, had failed inside its fireproof covering. Also, an oil film was found on the bottom of the left eng, left flap and left stabilizer. The left prop dome was found depleted of air pressure and no oil was found in the left engine case. When the aircraft was recovered from the canal, the left prop was found in the feathered position while the right prop was near its low pitch stops. One witness stated that after the aircraft passed over his car, a fine mist of oil fell on his windshield. Two others said smoke was trailing from the aircraft. Several witnesses stated that the left prop was windmilling. Witnesses reported that when the aircraft was stabilized on final approach, it pitched up slightly and yawed, then rolled left to an inverted attitude and crashed in a canal. The pilot's commercial certificate was revoked on 11/21/81. ![]() The pilot was not multi-engine rated and had not flown this type aircraft in about 10 years. There were no entries in the aircraft's logbook from 7/1/78 until 4/3/84 when the aircraft was inspected for the ferry flight. However, no preimpact failure or malfunction of the right engine was found. Wreckage examination revealed that all 3 blades of the right prop were bent smoothly and symmetrically rearward. The aircraft then aborted the approach due to an aircraft landing from the opposite direction and appeared to start a left turn onto abase leg when it stalled, pitched nose down and impacted the ground with its landing gear and flaps extended. Because of the wind this would have been a downwind landing. The crash led to a major pileup in traffic on 91 Freeway, which was backed up many miles for several hours as police officers blocked all main lanes.A popping or backfiring sound was heard by several people who later observed the aircraft flying at low altitude on what appeared to be a final approach to runway 13 at Jennings Airport (located about 75 miles southwest of the departure point.) No radios were onboard the aircraft so no distress calls were made. "(We’re) very fortunate today that the traffic was light, and the pilot appears to have made some good landing navigation that avoided what could have been a very bad tragedy." "The pilot claims to have experienced possible engine failure on their final descent to Corona Municipal Airport," California Highway Patrol Capt. The plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee PA-32, had an unspecified "engine issue" while flying to Corona Municipal Airport, according to the FAA. NTSB: Southwest flight attendant fractured back in landing so hard she thought plane crashed As long as you don’t panic, you get the best outcome." ![]() "We were 4 to 5 feet in the air when the plane stalled completely and fell to the ground. Your training kicks in, and you do the right thing. "It felt like a hard bump, hard to describe," Cho told the outlet. The pilot, Andrew Cho, told Los Angeles television station KTLA his training allowed him to land semi-successfully in traffic. Dashcam video footage, obtained by USA TODAY, circulated on social mediacaptured the moment when the small aircraft weaved in between cars to land. Video footage shared by the department showed firefighters quickly put out the flames. ![]() The incident occurred on the highway 45 minutes east of downtown Los Angeles.Īccording to the Corona Fire Department, which promptly arrived on the scene, the plane broke apart after clipping the truck and ignited on impact around 12:30 p.m. The two people inside the plane were unharmed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Watch Video: Dashcam captures plane landing on a highway, bursting into flamesĪ single-engine plane carrying a pilot and one passenger crash-landed on California's 91 Freeway after an engine malfunction, striking a truck and igniting into flames, according to authorities. ![]()
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