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Flight Training Tested
Altoona
Oct 18, 2004
Authorities remove a small plane that crashed in an Altoona neighborhoodFlight lessons are put to the test in a neighborhood. A small plane crashed right off of Hayden Street in Altoona on Sunday night. The pilot says there was no time to panic. "I didn't realize how close I was to hitting houses. It happened so fast and I didn't know what I hit," said Kyle Kraemer, the pilot. No one was seriously hurt. "Part of your training is you have to know emergencies and one of them is engine out... which pretty much happened to me. After that, you have to pick out a place to land if you can't get your engine running," said Kraemer. The FAA is now investigating the crash. It could take some time to figure out what went wrong.
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]ALTOONA — An equipment problem may have forced a pilot to make an emergency landing in a residential neighborhood Sunday night. “Everything we’ve heard points to a mechanical malfunction of the plane,” said Peggy Radel, the mother of UW-Eau Claire student Jeremiah Radel, the passenger in the plane.
The 1962 Piper, owned by Louis Paffel of Bloomer, dropped about 7:15 p.m. while traveling north along Fourth Street, narrowly missing several homes. It damaged a power pole and clipped a bush a few feet from one house before landing on the edge of the street and sliding to a stop several feet from the home of Gary and LouAnn Best at 1804 Hayden Ave.
Radel, of Spring Green, and his friend Kyle Kraemer, the pilot and a UW-Stout student from Plain, departed Sunday from an airport near Spring Green and headed for the Chippewa Valley. Kraemer planned to drop off Radel in Eau Claire before traveling to Menomonie, Peggy Radel said.
“No scratches. No bruises. No nothing,” Peggy Radel said, noting she’s amazed her son and Kraemer weren’t injured.
LouAnn Best was reading a book in her living room Sunday evening when she heard a loud noise that sounded like “ice sliding off our roof.” Gary Best went to the garage to see what had caused the noise.
“He said ‘There’s a plane in our yard,’ ” LouAnn Best said. “It’s the last thing we would have expected.”
LouAnn Best said Jeremiah Radel told her the plane had equipment malfunctions, forcing Kraemer to land it.
“They said their controls had jammed, that they quit working,” she said.
Kraemer was “extremely shaken up,” LouAnn Best said, but Radel recounted the details of their flight. Miraculously, neither was injured, she said.
“When you look at all of the houses here, I can’t believe there wasn’t more damage,” LouAnn Best said. “Somebody was watching out for them and us.”
The plane’s landing was made all the more amazing because it happened in the dark, LouAnn Best said.
“I don’t know how he did it, but he certainly did a great job landing it,” she said.
Peggy Radel called Kraemer a “level-headed pilot” who has flown for more than a year.
Onlookers came to the site to view the plane Sunday night and this morning. The left wing was crumpled underneath the plane’s body, and a wheel that had been sheared off the plane lay in Fourth Street.
“Look at how close that came to taking out that house,” Altoona resident Ray Henning said this morning, pointing to a bush a few feet from one home that was sheared by the plane as it passed. “How they avoided hitting a house I’ll never know.”
Federal Aviation Administration officials were expected at the crash site today, a spokeswoman with the Altoona Police Department said. About 60 customers lost power for about two hours.
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The 1962 Piper, owned by Louis Paffel of Bloomer, dropped about 7:15 p.m. while traveling north along Fourth Street, narrowly missing several homes. It damaged a power pole and clipped a bush a few feet from one house before landing on the edge of the street and sliding to a stop several feet from the home of Gary and LouAnn Best at 1804 Hayden Ave.
Radel, of Spring Green, and his friend Kyle Kraemer, the pilot and a UW-Stout student from Plain, departed Sunday from an airport near Spring Green and headed for the Chippewa Valley. Kraemer planned to drop off Radel in Eau Claire before traveling to Menomonie, Peggy Radel said.
“No scratches. No bruises. No nothing,” Peggy Radel said, noting she’s amazed her son and Kraemer weren’t injured.
LouAnn Best was reading a book in her living room Sunday evening when she heard a loud noise that sounded like “ice sliding off our roof.” Gary Best went to the garage to see what had caused the noise.
“He said ‘There’s a plane in our yard,’ ” LouAnn Best said. “It’s the last thing we would have expected.”
LouAnn Best said Jeremiah Radel told her the plane had equipment malfunctions, forcing Kraemer to land it.
“They said their controls had jammed, that they quit working,” she said.
Kraemer was “extremely shaken up,” LouAnn Best said, but Radel recounted the details of their flight. Miraculously, neither was injured, she said.
“When you look at all of the houses here, I can’t believe there wasn’t more damage,” LouAnn Best said. “Somebody was watching out for them and us.”
The plane’s landing was made all the more amazing because it happened in the dark, LouAnn Best said.
“I don’t know how he did it, but he certainly did a great job landing it,” she said.
Peggy Radel called Kraemer a “level-headed pilot” who has flown for more than a year.
Onlookers came to the site to view the plane Sunday night and this morning. The left wing was crumpled underneath the plane’s body, and a wheel that had been sheared off the plane lay in Fourth Street.
“Look at how close that came to taking out that house,” Altoona resident Ray Henning said this morning, pointing to a bush a few feet from one home that was sheared by the plane as it passed. “How they avoided hitting a house I’ll never know.”
Federal Aviation Administration officials were expected at the crash site today, a spokeswoman with the Altoona Police Department said. About 60 customers lost power for about two hours.
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Flight Training Tested
Altoona
Oct 18, 2004
