Light aircraft crashing in field?

Kess73

Heard on the TodayFM new at 10 that a small plane crashed into a field just outside Limerick city.


Anyone know what happened, and if those onboard are alright?

Skuxx

Kess73 wrote: »

Heard on the TodayFM new at 10 that a small plane crashed into a field just outside Limerick city.


Anyone know what happened, and if those onboard are alright?

Surely not another one, same thing happened only about 3 weeks ago!

Berty

Todayfm Website

Emergency landing in Limerick A light aircraft has been involved in an emergency landing in a field on the outskirts of Limerick City. The plane was forced to land at around 7 o' clock when the pilot experienced engine trouble. The pilot escaped serious injury.

not very helpful really.

steveon

Glad to hear Pilot was ok but what is going on lately around the Skies of Limerick....2 near misses in my opinion in 2 short a period of time...

Berty

steveon wrote: »

Glad to hear Pilot was ok but what is going on lately around the Skies of Limerick....2 near misses in my opinion in 2 short a period of time...

And those UFO's above the Clare Hills?????

BravoMike

It happened in the fields between Tesco at Coonagh R'bout and the Country Club pub. Fire and Ambulance were stood down shortly afterwards. After the landing the pilot was seen around the country club probably going for a few drinks to calm the nerves.

steveon

wouldnt blame him......Id be nervous enough getting in one and I'm well used to to heights....

Hangsangwich

glad to hear he is okay. I heard about it but didn't know if the pilot was okay. Nothing in rte news about it.

acalmenvoy

Fcukin' flying lawnmowers.....

highlydebased

steveon wrote: »

Glad to hear Pilot was ok but what is going on lately around the Skies of Limerick....2 near misses in my opinion in 2 short a period of time...

What do you mean "near misses"! It was not suggested anywhere that any other aircraft were involved in said accidents!

steveon

Neon-Circles wrote: »

What do you mean "near misses"! It was not suggested anywhere that any other aircraft were involved in said accidents!

By near misses I mean that it didnt land on a road and hit a car or plough into the side of a house in the nearby housing estates...

highlydebased

An understandable concern, however whoever was flying took the decision to land in a field for whatever reason,

the idea is to choose a suitable landing site 30 degrees to the left or right of current field of vision. Contrary to popular belief the aircraft does not fall straight from the sky. The said field it landed in was obviously most suitable in this case. In most cases the pilot would remain in control and hence a collision with a house is unlikely (but not ruling out the possibility)

Raiser

BravoMike wrote: »

It happened in the fields between Tesco at Coonagh R'bout and the Country Club pub. Fire and Ambulance were stood down shortly afterwards. After the landing the pilot was seen around the country club probably going for a few drinks to calm the nerves.

Does anyone know if he had a few pints beforehand?

acalmenvoy wrote: »

Fcukin' flying lawnmowers.....

Exactly - I wonder how much regulation goes on?

steveon wrote: »

By near misses I mean that it didnt land on a road and hit a car or plough into the side of a house in the nearby housing estates...

I'd really love to live in a house beneath the Mad Max airspace of Coonagh where dopes fend off their mid-life crises by flying airborne junk around - badly.

Kess73

Raiser wrote: »

I'd really love to live in a house beneath the Mad Max airspace of Coonagh where dopes fend off their mid-life crises by flying airborne junk around - badly.

Maybe a local with a similar outlook as yourself set up one of these in their back garden.














Is it confirmed that it was a plane from Coonagh airfield? If so, two light aircraft coming down in Limerick fields over a two week spell does not say much for their instructors tbh.

highlydebased

The first aircraft was privately owned by a member of the flying club, not sure about the second

It was technical issues that both had to land in fields in the first place so really the instructors in the flying club are irrelevant

iguana

Neon-Circles wrote: »

It was technical issues that both had to land in fields in the first place so really the instructors in the flying club are irrelevant

I'd say that the instructors are obviously very relevant but possibly in the opposite way to that first mentioned. If the planes had technical issues and started to go down the pilots are probably to be commended for their flying as they brought a malfunctioning plane down safely.

oh well

first one was a kit plane on its maiden flight!

The lastest one ran out of fuel .... seems like a fairly basic error to me.

Firefox10

Kess73 wrote: »

Maybe a local with a similar outlook as yourself set up one of these in their back garden.














Is it confirmed that it was a plane from Coonagh airfield? If so, two light aircraft coming down in Limerick fields over a two week spell does not say much for their instructors tbh.

/Goes off to Army Surplus Website's for German 88.:D

TestTransmission

oh well wrote: »

first one was a kit plane on its maiden flight!

The lastest one ran out of fuel .... seems like a fairly basic error to me.

Seems like a pretty stupid one to me

Insect Overlord

jackncoke wrote: »

Seems like a pretty stupid one to me