November 7, 2007: Plane lands on I-70

[bigw00dy]

I am going to google earth this interstate. It amazes me to think this guy was able to safely land this plane on a road and do it with one engine out.....

Hey Coign......is there a stretch of this road long and straight enough?? Or is this guy just plane lucky

[kerosene]

Doesn't 70 wind quite a bit up there? Wow.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by case

Doesn't 70 wind quite a bit up there? Wow.

So long as he was flying into the wind it would be okay.

Oh wait....

[glatt]

Originally Posted by case

Doesn't 70 wind quite a bit up there? Wow.

Not so bad. Where he apparently landed, there is a straight stretch for almost a whole mile.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by bigw00dy

I am going to google earth this interstate. It amazes me to think this guy was able to safely land this plane on a road and do it with one engine out.....

Hey Coign......is there a stretch of this road long and straight enough?? Or is this guy just plane lucky

Pssstt:

Kunkel lost one engine and then another

Both engines were out.

Yeah I'd say he was winging it, but he didn't need to get into a flap about it.

[Coign]

The e-mail that went around work that day.

-----Original Message-----
From: EC Alert Traffic [mailto:traffic570@ecalert.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:22 PM
To: ECALERT
Subject: Important message from EC ALERT

Wb I70 mm 144 closed due to aircraft on interstate. use hwy 6 as
alternate route. expected to be open shortly

Sent on: 10/10/2007 14:22:12


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The pilot is my former boss. I took one of the first flights in that plane years ago. On the way to CA he wanted to learn how his fuel gauge related to when the tank was actually empty. So we flew until we emptied one tank, stalled ever so slightly, switched to the other tank. He is a wily pilot and I am happy to hear he brought down his plane safely.

Katie & Lance - not sure if you flew as much as I did with him.

Holly

So a couple of my coworkers had flown with the guy.

It would have been this stretch of road just a few miles shy of the Eagle airport.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=s&ie=U...0595&z=14&om=1

And even though people say that is why freeways have straight stretches of road, it is a myth.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.htm#question30