flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
Luckily, I was not the pilot, nor was I even in the plane, or in the same state... But, one of our club Archers had a little incident up at KILL (A bad omen! That's Willmar, MN) over the weekend.
He found the landing light was operative during preflight, but failed sometime during the flight. He touched down uneventfully and taxied back on the runway. Unfortunately, there were some issues with the airport lights (and quite possibly lack of maintenance because the airport is closing in favor of a newer one soon).
That all conspired to create an illusion that the taxiway was in a slightly different place than it really was, and the plane went off the runway and struck a runway sign with the prop.
Lesson: If you go off the runway, pull the mixture IMMEDIATELY. Then, pull out your trusty tow bar to get the plane back on the runway. If unable, call for help.
He found the landing light was operative during preflight, but failed sometime during the flight. He touched down uneventfully and taxied back on the runway. Unfortunately, there were some issues with the airport lights (and quite possibly lack of maintenance because the airport is closing in favor of a newer one soon).
That all conspired to create an illusion that the taxiway was in a slightly different place than it really was, and the plane went off the runway and struck a runway sign with the prop.
Lesson: If you go off the runway, pull the mixture IMMEDIATELY. Then, pull out your trusty tow bar to get the plane back on the runway. If unable, call for help.