Posted on 05/12/2017 7:25:25 AM PDT by bigbob
FREMONT, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio truck driver who heard a strange thud while driving down a state highway says he pulled over to find landing gear sticking out his trailer after it was clipped by a small plane making a low approach.
No one was injured in the collision near the Fremont airport Tuesday. The pilot of the plane landed the aircraft on its belly.
Truck driver Russ Street pulled over at the airport, thinking he might have blown a tire, and saw a small tire sticking out of the top of his trailer.
State police say it's unclear why the plane was coming in low. They say the pilot, 71-year-old John Randall, was out for a short practice flight.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration are expected to arrive Wednesday.
And an excellent landing is one where you can use the airplane again.
Needs more of them.
Maybe the truck was driving too high?
That’ll buff right out...........................
Was Harrison Ford practicing “touch and go’s” again??
Looks like he was right about the tire.
Look at how much time and effort you just saved the NTSB!
Rofl!
So it wasn’t a fifth wheel trailer?
WINNER!
"Using an airplane tire as a spare tire. That one's not even on the books."
You’re on a roll!
How many safety violations? Looks like he expects to sit there a while.
At the article location, the “landing gear” stock photo is the nose gear of an airliner.
How lazy can you get? They must have embedded the first hit they got for searching “landing gear”.
“At the article location, the “landing gear” stock photo is the nose gear of an airliner.
How lazy can you get? They must have embedded the first hit they got for searching “landing gear”.”
I thought the same thing. What was “gramps” practicing touch and goes in, a 727?
Story with photo of truck.
http://www.wthr.com/article/small-plane-clips-truck-embedding-landing-gear-in-trailer%C2%A0
Needs more of them.
Pilot, in his younger days, must have been a Navy carrier jet jock an when he saw that big flat moving deck he had a flashback to his carrier landing days. Coulda been!
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