Trio escape inflight fire

[alaskaflyer]

Holy mackerel!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WST_FIERY_CRASH_AKOL-?SITE=AKFAI&SECTION=HOME

The two new pastors of a church in Kake and their pilot escaped injury after a fire broke out in their small commuter airplane as it left the southeast Alaska community. The L.A.B. Flying Service pilot turned the airplane around and landed Monday on the Kake runway. Fire consumed the single-engine Cherokee Six plane just seconds after the three left the wreckage.

 

[Pilawt]

Fire consumed the single-engine Cherokee Six plane just seconds after the three left the wreckage.
[snip several paragraphs]
The plane passed over a home under construction. A man working on the home told the Watkins' he saw flames shooting out of the bottom of the Cessna.

<sigh>


-- Pilawt

 

[gprellwitz]

It's unclear whether calling it a "Cessna" was the witness' mistake or the reporter's.

 

[tonycondon]

wow i never knew a cherokee 6 was a small commuter plane. but im glad they got down ok. inflight fires are scary

 

[Tom-D]

wow i never knew a cherokee 6 was a small commuter plane. but im glad they got down ok. inflight fires are scary

It's one of the favored aircraft for remote village service.

 

[Richard O]

This just in, no flight plan had been filed.

 

[Pilawt]

This just in, no flight plan had been filed.

And it delayed a MSP-DEN Northwest flight for two hours ...

-- Pilawt

 

[Richard O]

There's another thing about the story that irritates me. The headline says :
"Pastors, pilot survive fiery crash of small plane". Then in the body of the story it says this:
"But Anderson managed to find the runway, land the aircraft, kick open the co-pilot door and help them out, they said."

That doesn't sound like a crash to me.

 

[alaskaflyer]

There's another thing about the story that irritates me. The headline says :
"Pastors, pilot survive fiery crash of small plane". Then in the body of the story it says this:
"But Anderson managed to find the runway, land the aircraft, kick open the co-pilot door and help them out, they said."

That doesn't sound like a crash to me.

Oh, OK, a hard landing then.

 

[Ghery]

And it delayed a MSP-DEN Northwest flight for two hours ...

-- Pilawt

And you could tell this from any other delay on NWA how???