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Piper Arrow lands on San Diego Interstate
Piper runs out of fuel enroute to Carlsbad and ditches on interstate Sunday night, no injuries. Only damage to plane was due to Dodge pickup clipping wingtip. (www.cbs8.com) 更多...
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Short of fuel loss somehow, I fail to understand how fuel exhaustion keeps happening. Your range is determined by time, not distance flown. If you have 5 hours of range and you're running at 4 hours and 30 minutes, perhaps you should consider finding a place to land...just a thought.
A Piper Arrow with 4 people and gear onboard won't hold enough fuel to make that 280 mile flight and still be within weight and balance. Most likely had a case of "get there idis". 11pm on a Sunday night, needed to get home from vacation in order to make it to work on Monday morning. Didn't want to make a 45 min fuel stop which would have made his arrival even later. At that point you start running numbers through you mind and you convince yourself you can make it. In this case he came up 9 miles short of the runway but luckily survived. That's not usually the case in these situations....
9 miles.....just close enough to see the lights and start patting himself on the back
and about that time the engine goes S-P-U-T-T-T-E-R then POOT
lol
how to safely remove it???? Call a rollback....lol....it's not a twin or anything bigger
