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Plane crashes near Bowman Field
WAVE 3 TV ^
| April 6, 2008
| Staff
Posted on 04/06/2008 1:38:44 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson
LOUISVILLE (WAVE) -- Metro police and firefighters are on the scene of a plane crash near Bowman Field. The aircraft is down in the 2600 block of Valetta Road near the Seneca Gardens neighborhood.
The 6-seater Cessna P210N went down shortly before 3 p.m. and police officials tell us it narrowly missed a house in the residential neighborhood.
Emergency crews pulled two people from the wreckage. They were taken to the hospital. No word yet on their condition.
We have a crew on the scene and we'll have the latest coming up on WAVE 3 News.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: airport; aviation; crash; louisville; plane; planecrash
Apparently this plane went down just a few hundred feet from Bowman Field, in eastern Louisville. Taylorsville Road is currently shut down because of the crash.
To: SLB
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posted on
04/06/2008 1:39:52 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
To: Stonewall Jackson
I live about a quarter mile from Bowman field. Haven’t turned on the TV all day though...
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posted on
04/06/2008 2:09:28 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
To: TheThinker
I always find it interesting... A small plane crashes and it gets huge attention, sometimes nationwide.
A car crashes every hour and kills many, but it barely makes the local news.
Of course, having owned 3 planes, including a C172, it is of interest to me.
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posted on
04/06/2008 2:20:28 PM PDT
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: A.A. Cunningham
Is that 210 in Argentina? It's a pressurized one. FGL on the engine and vacuum pump!
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posted on
04/06/2008 2:28:05 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Leftists stop arguing when they see your patriotism, your logic, your CAR-15 and your block of C4.)
To: AlexW
Of course, having owned 3 planes, including a C172, it is of interest to me. Likewise. (see username.)
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posted on
04/06/2008 2:33:23 PM PDT
by
C210N
(The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
To: Stonewall Jackson
Wow...I live less than 5 minutes from Bowman Field as well and my father frequently flies out of there...hope everyone is ok!
To: Stonewall Jackson
Does WAVE have a Sunday evening news?
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posted on
04/06/2008 3:19:56 PM PDT
by
KYGrandma
(The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home)
To: KYGrandma
Yes they do. WHAS 11 will have a full report at 6:30, which is in just a few minutes.
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posted on
04/06/2008 3:24:27 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
To: Stonewall Jackson
Thanks. Have only been back in KY for 6 months, and I’m still trying to figure out which news to watch.
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posted on
04/06/2008 3:28:19 PM PDT
by
KYGrandma
(The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home)
To: SLB; A.A. Cunningham; TheThinker; AlexW; MindBender26; C210N; MrBlueSky2005; KYGrandma
I just saw an update on TV. Apparently the initial reports of two people onboard were incorrect. The only person on the plane was the pilot, 68-year-old Richard Shenk of Basalt, Colorado.
He went down about 300 feet short of the runway at Bowman Field, missing the top of a house by just a few feet. The plane caught on fire after crashing, but neighbors managed to use garden hoses to control the flames long enough for emergency crews to arrive and pull Shenk out of the wreck. He is now in serious condition at University Hospital with severe burns.
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posted on
04/06/2008 3:31:22 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. - George Patton)
To: Stonewall Jackson
At least the pilot’s alive. Hope he recovers well. Thanks for the unpdate.
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posted on
04/06/2008 5:54:37 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
To: Stonewall Jackson
I used ot fly in and out of Bowman a few years back. Moved my personal flight ops to Clark County dure to traffic and a real long runway at clark county. plus clark county is uncontrolled, which was nice some times. A lot less traffic.
A resident says that she was not surpised as there is so much traffic. I think some of the safes pilots I’ve ever met fly out of Bowman airplane patch.
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posted on
04/06/2008 10:33:30 PM PDT
by
truemiester
((If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years))
To: milford421
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posted on
04/07/2008 5:08:01 AM PDT
by
nw_arizona_granny
( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=451 SURVIVAL, RECIPES, GARDENS, & INFO)
To: Stonewall Jackson
I use to fly N20BK from Bowman to Brunswick county in NC from there.
But I guess eventually something is bound to happen.
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posted on
04/15/2008 12:37:23 PM PDT
by
Red6
(Come and take it.)
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