Plane collides with digger

[HamiltonWest]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/n...s-near-Feilding

[Ian Warren]

What is it up with around Fielding, they seem to have a history of mid airs, the classic one was when two decided to have a dogfight/tail chase, now to hit a digger ... talk about trying to get yourself buried ... maybe they have look at the training school

[Tupolev114]

Have to say thats harsh comment, the particular approach and landing is made hazardous from there being sink that happens almost at the point of the road were the digger was hit by the plane it has absolutely nothing to do with the school at all, that comes from hundreds of hours of flying there

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Tupolev114 @ Apr 10 2014,12:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Have to say thats harsh comment,

Not a harsh comment at all, seems this region has a high incident rate, It maybe just pure bad luck, just something they may want to ponder ... we all how planes fly, there is a thing called "situation awareness" .. pretty damn low , if it was not the truck it would have been the fence ... to not see a whooping great truck with a load like that ? ... so that is in the teaching

[JoeM]

Ian, having landed at many rural aerodromes throughout the South Island, some very similar to Feilding, I can assure you that things like this catch even the most experienced pilot out! This looks to be an example of the swiss cheese model, where all the holes have aligned to link the accident chain. Bit of sink on finals, perhaps some inexperience, ailing light, maybe even the load was concealed behind a low hedgeline and popped out into the final approach path at a point where the PIC couldn't execute a missed approach quickly enough? A lack of Situational Awareness may have played a part, sure, but don't be too hasty jumping to conclusions!

Hope those involved are back in the air soon.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (JoeM @ Apr 10 2014,11:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

A lack of Situational Awareness may have played a part, sure, but don't be too hasty jumping to conclusions!

Not jumping to conclusions , simply around this airspace, a training ground simply has had more accidents in the last ten years, hotdogging and other things, as i said in the earlier post it may just be bad luck, has to be a bit of head scratching .. to hit a truck, bloody lucky it wasn't a fuel tanker.

[wildmanfiveone]

I work at that airfield. With the number of trucks going down that road combined with the constant stream of aircraft taking off and landing im surprised it hasnt happened before

[Ian Warren]

An accident waiting to happen then, this is were it falls onto the school and again also 'situational awareness'.

[Adrian Brausch]

Vanishing point with a cessna lol

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Adrian Brausch @ Apr 11 2014,10:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Vanishing point with a cessna lol

A movie right to the point ... whoplip!

[omitchell]

*Hic* Damn digga jush flew out of the shky at me *Hic*