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Title: USA level crossing collision Post by: infoman on January 10, 2022, 06:10:55 Sky news are showing footage of a person being pulled from a light plane that made, I presume, an emergency landing on a road/level crossing area.
Person rescued just before a train smashed into the plane that had ended up on the railway level crossing. Title: Re: USA level crossing collision Post by: Bmblbzzz on January 10, 2022, 09:52:58 I was going to say, level crossing collisions are ten a penny in the USA – I read recently there's one every four hours – but a level crossing collision involving a plane is a bit unusual!
Title: Re: USA level crossing collision Post by: broadgage on January 10, 2022, 22:33:59 Dramatic video of this was shown on BBC TV news at about 22-25 this evening.
The pilot was dragged clear with only about one second to spare, the plane was damaged by the forced landing, and then totally destroyed by the train. Pilot injured but no other injuries reported. Title: Re: USA level crossing collision Post by: JayMac on January 11, 2022, 00:09:53 Link to the police bodycam video on the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59946362 Also, Air Traffic Control communication during the incident: There's also video circulating from an eyewitness. A very lucky eyewitness, who narrowly avoided serious injury from flying debris, following the collision between train and Cessna. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |