Plane crashes onto 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills
Source: Los Angeles Times
A vintage small plane crashed onto the 101 in Agoura Hills on Tuesday afternoon, shutting down the freeway in both directions, authorities said.
Los Angeles County firefighters arrived at the crash site near Liberty Canyon Road about 1:50 p.m. According to spokeswoman Vanessa Lozano, the plane crashed in the middle of the freeway.
No injuries were reported. Los Angeles County Fire spokesman Marvin Lim said he did not know whether the pilot was able to safely exit the plane himself or had been removed by rescuers.
Images tweeted by drivers on the freeway showed the vintage airplane in flames, emitting a black cloud of smoke. Firefighters put out the flames about 2:15 p.m., officials said. Fire officials were waiting for National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration investigators to arrive, Lozano said.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-101-plane-crash-20181023-story.html
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)a Focke Wulf 190. Germany. WW2.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)WW2 German markings, maybe not the best thing to do...
Didn't work out so well the first time around.
Just saying.
marked50
(1,368 posts)SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)but local news is reporting that it's a T-6 Texan painted in WWII Luftwaffe livery
Brother Buzz
(36,464 posts)A Navy trainer variant of the T-6.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)marked50
(1,368 posts)an AT6 Texan, painted in WW2 German markings.
VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)Old, but not necessarily rare.
Hopefully the pilot got out okay.
Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....50 mph or so with full flaps and glide down.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)further down in this article, doesn't look to have been a very smooth landing
https://ktla.com/2018/10/23/small-plane-down-on-northbound-101-freeway-in-agoura-hills/
George II
(67,782 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)He started telling the story of a mission over France and how they were being strafed by German fire.
" I looked out in front of me" he said " and there was three fokkers in front, and then I looked behind me, and there was three fokkers behind me, and then I looked above me, and there was two fokkers above, and then I looked below me, and there was four fokkers below"
Just then the organiser, thinking that the ladies might misunderstand, and assume the ex-pilot was swearing jumped up and said "For all those who don't know, the Fokker was a plane used by the Germans during the war"
and the Irish pilot said "Yeah, but these Fokkers were Messerschmidts"
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)paleotn
(17,960 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)And one near San Francisco in August. What's up with California pilots?
petronius
(26,603 posts)Stay to the right if you're gonna lollygag like that...
George II
(67,782 posts)DID land in the right lane! Nice guy.
KayF
(1,345 posts)the dad's kind of a jerk for one thing he said. His kid says "Look out for the airplane", and then the dad says, "Look Bubba, there's a plane on the freeway!" I feel bad for the kid. He just said "Look out for the airplane", so he obviously knows the plane is there. A grownup can say "yeah I know, I just said that, asshole!" But the kid can't say that.
That is all.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)DMV registration current?
Has it passed its biennial smog check? Just asking for a friend.
Also didn't see any brake lights on the damn thing........
lefthandedskyhook
(965 posts)Just asking
petronius
(26,603 posts)that traffic jam must have been!
I've spent hours in that corridor on a 'normal' day, let alone this...
dhill926
(16,355 posts)Holy hell
ZZenith
(4,126 posts)Ellen Forradalom
(16,160 posts)Are shooting down the Nazi invaders
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)the plane was searching for George Soros' house.....
Never know what to believe these days.....