Plane flips on sticky airstrip

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Plane flips on sticky airstrip
By CHERIE HOWIE - The Marlborough Express | Tuesday, 18 March 2008

The pilot of a light aircraft is believed to have mistakenly landed on a runway being re-grassed, causing her Cessna to flip at Omaka Aerodrome, near Blenheim, this afternoon.


Fire, police and ambulance services rushed to the scene following the 3pm crash, but the pilot and her male passenger were uninjured.

No further details were available.
www.stuff.co.nz/4444255a10.html

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OMAKA (NZOM):

A0470/08 FROM: 09 MAR 2008 19:08 TO: 09 JUN 2008 19:00
GRASS RWY 01/19 AND GRASS RWY 07/25 CLSD DUE REGRASSING.
GRASS RWY 12/30 REALIGNED TO NORTH BY 5M DUE REGRASSING. CLSD AND
REALIGNED PORTION OF RWY MARKED BY WHITE TYRES.


Ouch!

[corsair67]

NOTAMS - who bothers reading those silly things?

[flyjoe180]

Woops. Damage doesn't look too bad from that photo though.

[flyjoe180]

An updated article. The article mentions a Cessna 150. The photo shows a C152.


Two aviation students yesterday walked away after their plane flipped and landed upside down on an area of runway ploughed for resowing at Omaka Aerodrome near Blenheim.

The Indian students on board the Cessna 150 were shaken but uninjured in the crash which happened just after 3pm.

Marlborough Aero Club secretary Ginetta Pali said the plane nosedived into the ground and flipped over.

"We rushed out and fortunately they were OK," she said. That area of the grass runway had been disc-ploughed for resowing and was marked, she said. "They were supposed to land next to it."

The runway had become pitted and had to be maintained by being ploughed and flattened again, she said.

Associated Aviation business manager John Read said the woman student pilot, who had her private pilot's licence, was on a cross-country training flight from Paraparaumu to Omaka.

The pilot and her passenger, who was also a student at the flying school, were from India. There were more than 200 Indian students learning to fly in New Zealand, he said. The plane had not nose-dived and it was a minor incident. The flying school had not had any other incidents since it had been purchased in May 2005, said Read.

Senior Constable Russ Smith, of the Blenheim police, said it appeared the nose-wheel of the light plane had dug in shortly after touch-down and the aircraft flipped over, landing upside down.



www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4444376a19754.html

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I'll bet the insurance company will take notice of whether or not the NOTAM's were read (or not)!

[lumpy]

I notice there are much bigger , more visible barriers on the closed runways now , and also part way down them . Im not saying previous measures were sub standard ( I have no doubt whatsoever they met all requirements ) - but you would have to be blind to miss them now .

[stingray]

This was going round at wanaka.
apparently it was the same crew that landed long and crashed in the river bed 6(?) months ago?

[lumpy]

A mate of mines father ( one of the old school - yes , he was once the proud owner of a tiger moth ) says he has no faith in modern ( young ) pilots , who only operate from fields long enough to land a 737 in . He thinks all pilots should have to do a " paddock " landing or two .I have been in a paddock that was about to be landed in for the first time , and the amount of care taken was extreme ( I think there was 3 progressivly lower passes ) , first for a look for wires , next for a look at the ground , lastly a low almost landing . Then the landing !Cant help wonder if the old boys right ? :-)

[John L]

We used to take great pride at Dairy Flat...back in the 60's, to bring the Cubs in just over the fence.
If you weren't stopped and turned off the strip by the middle, you were a big girls blouse!
Caused a few reverse problems on away trips to regular fields though - I can recall popping over the fence at Rukuhia, then having to taxy flat out down the strip to the taxiway, on account of a Freindship, on finals, behind me!