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Jay Honeck

Jay Honeck

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Jay Honeck
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KTFP - Ingleside, TX
My first ever ride in a commercial plane was out of Easterwood, in a DC-3 operated by TTA.

I wonder if it was one of the Aggie Flying Club planes.

Praying that there are no injuries or worse.
 
Glad to hear they are ok hope they both have full a recovery.
 
Hard to believe this crash was survivable.

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Oh my...took me 30 seconds to figure out the firewall forward was gone and I was looking at the front...speedy recovery for all...
 
Warlock said:
Oh my...took me 30 seconds to figure out the firewall forward was gone and I was looking at the front...speedy recovery for all...
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I know, right? I've looked at it more than that, and it seems like something is missing? Maybe it's just the angle, but I can account for the prop, and the back half of the engine, but doesn't it sort of look like the front two cylinders are missing?

Edit: Even at 300% zoom, I can't tell.
 
prop is detached and lying on the ground to the left
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
prop is detached and lying on the ground to the left
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And, it was NOT rotating at impact.....

I "think " I see all of the motor, alternator, mags. baffling , etc etc....If it had blown the front cylinders off in the air, there would be a ton of oil coating the top of the wing...
 
Wheww! From the interview it sounds like they might both be alright.
 
Emergency personnel Thursday afternoon responded to calls about a single-engine plane crashing about 1 p.m. Thursday outside a recycling center south of the airport..

Guess he didn't want to go through the hassle of dismantling and trucking it in. Glad to hear they are doing well and appreciate the punch line.
 
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Haven't heard anything new, other than the official release of the victims names.

I guess that's good news, at this point. Godspeed to their quick recovery! To survive such an impact is truly lucky.
 
luvflyin said:
Emergency personnel Thursday afternoon responded to calls about a single-engine plane crashing about 1 p.m. Thursday outside a recycling center south of the airport..

Guess he didn't want to go through the hassle of dismantling and trucking it in. Glad to hear they are doing well and appreciate the punch line.
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Well, at least they didn't crash in a cemetery and die. I can imagine the punch line then.
 
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I heard 'the engine quit'. I suppose no word yet on why the engine quit? Often fuel issues are cited, then we have the various mechanical failures.

Glad they both made it through the ordeal, hopefully a full and speedy recovery.
 
Wow,

Wife and I flew over to College Station (Easterwood) for dinner Tuesday night ...

Hope they wind up being alright.

-Dan
 
Latest word is that they are being released from the hospital. Awesome news!

When you look at the wreckage, it's hard to believe that they walked away from this, banged up but intact.
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Jay Honeck said:
Latest word is that they are being released from the hospital. Awesome news!

When you look at the wreckage, it's hard to believe that they walked away from this, banged up but intact.
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Glad to hear the good news..........


Clearly, seat belts are a WONDERFUL thing...:yes:
 
N801BH said:
Glad to hear the good news..........


Clearly, seat belts are a WONDERFUL thing...:yes:
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And keeping the plane flying and in control up to the impact. Most small airplane accidents are survivable, if you keep flying the plane after the initial engine failure. When you try to stretch it and stall or stall/spin, then you have fatalities. A long time friend of mine lost an engine in IMC at night. He set up a best glide airspeed, kept his hands off the yoke, and broke out at 1200 agl. Spotted a road and landed. No damage, no one hurt. Very lucky to have had the road, but he did have fields on either side as well.
 
Rcmutz said:
And keeping the plane flying and in control up to the impact. Most small airplane accidents are survivable, if you keep flying the plane after the initial engine failure. When you try to stretch it and stall or stall/spin, then you have fatalities. A long time friend of mine lost an engine in IMC at night. He set up a best glide airspeed, kept his hands off the yoke, and broke out at 1200 agl. Spotted a road and landed. No damage, no one hurt. Very lucky to have had the road, but he did have fields on either side as well.
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Agreed....

Fly the plane as far into the crash as you can...
 
Glad everyone is ok.... Engine failures do happen. I have been flying 11 years or so and had 2 major engine problems. My point of this post is stay calm if it happens... Just take a chill pill. LOL! Don't ever think a airplane is 100% reliable. Both of these were low time engines.

1) Me and my son about 9 years old then were flying back from Jay's place in Port Aransas (Amelia's landing) in the 172. Oil pressure was steady dropping all the way back and I made it home with a completely trashed engine. I never told my son we were having problems but I climbed and watched the gauges and looked for a place to land the whole way.

2) Me and my Son flew my 540 powered Christen Eagle to Fredericksberg for lunch and made it home fine. The next day I hopped in the Eagle solo to go fly some acro. I took off and climbed to about 4000 feet. I was a few miles from the airport and the engine started popping, sounded like it was starving for fuel or something? It was still running but had 0 power. If you guys know acro biplanes they glide like a brick. I turned toward the airport and trimmed it at 100mph. I made it back and made the best landing I ever made in that airplane. Engine was still running but knocking like hell. I pulled the oil filter and it was packed full of metal. Pulled the engine, took it to my guy and he called a week later. He had never seen anything like it, the crank was broke in half. It came out in 2 pieces. The funny thing everything was sent out for inspection. The case, rods and everything were still good. Here are a few pics...
 

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pigpenracing said:
Glad everyone is ok.... Engine failures do happen. I have been flying 11 years or so and had 2 major engine problems. My point of this post is stay calm if it happens... Just take a chill pill. LOL! Don't ever think a airplane is 100% reliable. Both of these were low time engines.

1) Me and my son about 9 years old then were flying back from Jay's place in Port Aransas (Amelia's landing) in the 172. Oil pressure was steady dropping all the way back and I made it home with a completely trashed engine. I never told my son we were having problems but I climbed and watched the gauges and looked for a place to land the whole way.

2) Me and my Son flew my 540 powered Christen Eagle to Fredericksberg for lunch and made it home fine. The next day I hopped in the Eagle solo to go fly some acro. I took off and climbed to about 4000 feet. I was a few miles from the airport and the engine started popping, sounded like it was starving for fuel or something? It was still running but had 0 power. If you guys know acro biplanes they glide like a brick. I turned toward the airport and trimmed it at 100mph. I made it back and made the best landing I ever made in that airplane. Engine was still running but knocking like hell. I pulled the oil filter and it was packed full of metal. Pulled the engine, took it to my guy and he called a week later. He had never seen anything like it, the crank was broke in half. It came out in 2 pieces. The funny thing everything was sent out for inspection. The case, rods and everything were still good. Here are a few pics...
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Wow! Great (scary) stories.

When I take off, I am constantly looking for places to land. I relax a bit in cruise, but it's always in the back of mind...

I've had two partial losses of power in 21 years. Both times I still had enough power to make a landing. The first one was fouled plugs after a long ground hold, the second one was never diagnosed, but water in the fuel was our best guess.

Both got my attention.
 
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