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2 crashes on same runway in 3 minutes

Seeing the c130 crash thread reminded me of a bad day at a fly-in I used to host at my home strip. This happened a couple years ago, thankfully no-one was injured too badly. My wife and I decided to stop having this event due to fear of getting sued.

This home built retractable gear 1/2 scale Corsair came in hot and the guy panicked and rode the brakes too hard and went over on his nose HARD. While we were helping free him, another idiot in an ultralight decided to try to land short of the incedent and he got too low over the ditch at the runway threshold. He clipped his gear off on the ditch bank and stopped in about twenty feet.

Soon we had the rescue squad and highway patrol all over the place. The feds decided that this was a landing incident so luckily they did not come out to drag us thru the muck.

The 79 year old Corsair pilot was hospitilized for a few days w/ cracked ribs and facial lacerations. The Ultralight guy was not injured, allthough I wanted to injure him.


You can see both in the last photo if you look closely.
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