What happened at HEF Sat 8/15?

[Chip Sylverne]

Airplane on it's back, airport closed for a number of hours? Heard about it on FDK unicom.

 

[TangoWhiskey]

Don't know. Call the FBO: http://www.airnav.com/airport/khef

 

[wsuffa]

Glad I wasn't flying today....

16R/34L was closed yesterday. If this closed the airport, then it must have been on 16L/34R (the longer runway - which is the only one that's really usable by jet traffic and larger aircraft. If 16R/34L was open, there's no reason to close the airport.

 

[wsuffa]

Sure it was HEF?

IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 3737G Make/Model: AL3C Description: AMERICAN LEGEND AL3C-100
Date: 08/15/2009 Time: 1610

Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Substantial

LOCATION
City: WARRENTON State: VA Country: US

DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT ON RUNWAY, FLIPPED OVER, WARRENTON, VA

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:

WEATHER: VFR

OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER


FAA FSDO: WASHINGTON IAD, DC (EA27) Entry date: 08/17/2009

Warrenton is close, but it's not HEF.

 

[Chip Sylverne]

That would have been the right time, date and circumstance.
I guess it must have been Warrenton. Still wondering what happened. Couldn't have been a better day for flying.

 

[mantakos]

...16R/34L was closed yesterday...

The KHEF runway closure was announced in advance, so that must have been something planned, and not in response to an incident.
-harry

 

[wsuffa]

The KHEF runway closure was announced in advance, so that must have been something planned, and not in response to an incident.
-harry

Yep, they were doing maintenance.

 

[TangoWhiskey]

There are a number of videos of N3737G taken this month posted on YouTube, all by the same guy... just pull up YouTube via this link and look at all the related videos on the right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAJiHc_2xic