Vintage plane accident closes DC airport runway [View All]

Source: Associated Press

Vintage plane accident closes DC airport runway
(AP) – 41 minutes ago

ARLINGTON, Va. — The main runway at {Washington} National Airport is closed after a vintage aircraft flipped when it landed.

Film producer Pietro Serapiglia says the aircraft was part of a group of vintage biplanes flying in Tuesday morning to promote the opening of 3-D film "Legends of Flight." Serapiglia says the plane landed, but then it flipped over.

Sybrina Lambeth of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority says no injuries were reported and no commercial planes were involved. She says planes are still taking off from other runways.

The Washington Post reports that the newspaper's transportation writer Ashley Halsey III was the passenger in the vintage Stearman aircraft and neither Halsey nor the pilot were injured.

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Hat tip to the gang at Scan-DC for bringing this to my attention. I can't hear the airport from inside my building, but if I go up on the roof, I should be able to hear them. It's time to charge up the Bearcat SC180.

Edited: Video.

Vintage Biplane Flips Over at {Washington} National

news broadcast, with video of the landing

The video Hassin Bin Sober links to is much better, though I wish the videographer had used a tripod. I mean, how often do you get to see a Stearman land? Passengers on the port side of a taxiing US Airways flight got quite a view. Always wear your seatbelt, or harness in this case.

More editing: Video taken from onboard the Stearman that crashed. You have to see this.

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