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Emergency landing at Ballybrit racecourse

  • 03-06-2013 8:32am
    #1
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    Just saw a 2nd hand report of an emergency landing at Ballybrit yesterday. Any confirmation? Word was no injuries thankfully.


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  • #2
    coylemj
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    The racecourse or the nearby airport?


  • #3
    Oscar Bravo
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    a G-BVMH departed Ballybrit around lunchtime today. whether its related to the above i dont know.


  • #4
    RadioRetro
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    Yep, that's him. Had difficulties finding his way yesterday (visibility not great) and eventually put down at the race course. Piper Cub, 2 pob.


  • #5
    palmtrees
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    The civil defence in Oranmore put some pics and details up on their facebook page (http://facebook.com/OranmoreCD). Looks like there was poor visibility and that it landed safely thankfully!


  • #6
    phonypony
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    Fair play, always the right decision when you feel it's gonna hit the fan.


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  • #7
    FWVT
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    If it was down to poor visibility, as is looking a distinct possibility, then I would call it just a precautionary landing, not emergency. Easy enough to do in something like a Cub on something like a racecourse. Good decision by the pilot, though on the other hand, poor decision to go flying in the first place! Weather was progged to be bad there yesterday.


  • #8
    pclancy
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    See the comment in the Galway thread that he nearly hit the stand?


  • #9
    asdfg!
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    pclancy wrote: »
    See the comment in the Galway thread that he nearly hit the stand?
    Yes and see my comment that is probably an exaggeration. It's difficult for the uninitiated to judge clearances in these situations. Airports often get calls from concerned citizens who think they saw a plane crash when it was merely landing. That and the rescue services being alerted because an aircraft is doing something out of the ordinary and seems to be going down.

    Eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable.


  • #10
    coylemj
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    pclancy wrote: »
    See the comment in the Galway thread that he nearly hit the stand?

    While landing on the grass there wouldn't be the slightest danger of hitting either of the stands. There is a very wide concourse between the fence at the finishing line and the front of the stands in Galway, not a hope that a wing of a light aircraft could have come near hitting the stands, neither of which has supporting pillars at the front as they're both relatively modern.

    There is an elevated platform for the stewards near the finishing line, that's the only obstacle the wings could have hit while the plane was touching down on the grass but the track is pretty wide at that point.

    Google Earth says the track is >20m wide at the finishing line.

    http://goo.gl/maps/QH4U4


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