150 Down in Oregon!!

[NW_Pilot]

A Cessna 150 in my neck of the woods today & a student pilot!!! Thats asking for trouble!! I bet you it was carb ice that put his engine out!

http://www.twinoaksairpark.com/N11568photos.htm

http://www.katu.com/stories/83619.html


By Dan Christopher
and KATU.com Web Staff

HILLSBORO, Ore. - A student pilot is happy to be alive after the small plane he was flying stopped running in mid-air and he had to make a crash landing.
The incident happened around 9 a.m. Thursday morning off Highway 219 near the Twin Oaks Airport on S.W. River Road.


The pilot, 35-year-old William Inman, does not yet have his license, but has flown alone before.


Inman said the plane's engine simply stopped, forcing him to make a quick decision about what to do.


"I thought I was going to overshoot the landing," he said. "I thought that instead of landing on the road or in the trees, it would be better to land in a field."


"I think he's a little shook up," said Sgt. David Thompson with the Washington County Sheriff's Office. "I think he's happy to have walked away from the plane crash, obviously. He ended up landing in a field, but when he hit the soft mud out there, it flipped the plane over and he landed upside down."


The FAA is investigating the crash.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

Considering the vast amount of information provided in these detailed and explicit articles, how did you come to the conclusion that it was carb ice?

 

[NW_Pilot]

Considering the vast amount of information provided in these detailed and explicit articles, how did you come to the conclusion that it was carb ice?

I live in the area and know the condition's

 

[FN FAL]

Considering the vast amount of information provided in these detailed and explicit articles, how did you come to the conclusion that it was carb ice?

Really.

 

[Catbert]

"A student pilot is happy to be alive after the small plane he was flying stopped running in mid-air and he had to make a crash landing...."

" ....I think he's happy to have walked away from the plane crash, obviously. He ended up landing in a field, but when he hit the soft mud out there, it flipped the plane over and he landed upside down."

So was it a crash, a landing, a crash landing, or a normal landing followed by an upside down landing?

 

[NoPax]

He might have suffered fuel starvation for any number of reasons, or a catastrophic engine failure.

Under investigation...good landing, well done

 

[MFRskyknight]

He might have suffered fuel starvation for any number of reasons, or a catastrophic engine failure.

Under investigation...good landing, well done

No kidding. Kudos to the guy...especially if he swung it in conditions that would have made carb icing a factor.

All clear and dry today down here in S. Oregon, though.

MFR

 

[agpilot34]

I live in the area and know the condition's

Gee, that makes you almost as much of an expert as the reporters at CNN.