Plane collision with tractor

[3930dave]

I saw this sad news on the News ticker in the lunchroom at work. Looked it up once I got home.

Quebec woman dies after being struck by airplane while driving tractor near runway

Rgds, D.

 

[scaredychicken]

how awful

 

[cqaigy2]

Sad news.

 

[oosik]

Unusual ........

 

[MossRoad]

I googled the airport in the town listed. If I have the right one, it's a very small and narrow field that appears to be a sky diving center.

The first airport I worked at was small. Plowing snow or mowing the fields (two tasks I did not perform, but observed and rode along) were just done when able. You'd look both ways and cross the runway or you'd look both ways and make a pass down the runway with the plow. I think there was a radio in the plow, but do not recall.

 

[3930dave]

I googled the airport in the town listed. If I have the right one, it's a very small and narrow field that appears to be a sky diving center.

I was thinking of a skydiving strip near me, after reading that article.

Few details reported so far, but it's likely she was working on airport grounds.

That said..... I've been driving down the local road that is the north boundary of the field here, and saw a plane approaching VERY low to land. Low enough it would have hit a 5 ton box truck driving down the road. I drive a street MC down that road - non riders don't appreciate how high you sit on a standard street bike, let alone a dual sport machine......

Sad loss of life any way it happened.... but it's possible she might have been cutting grass at the edge of a boundary road......

Rgds, D.

 

[Tinhack]

Heck, I get scared every time my neighbor has his field sprayed. I can count the rivets in the plane's panels.

 

[Jstpssng]

Heck, I get scared every time my neighbor has his field sprayed. I can count the rivets in the plane's panels.

Spray plane operators are a different breed. In spring before they could get on it with tractors, the orchard I worked at had a plane do their spraying. I've seen him come in low across the orchard, and lift the tail up as it went over the barn to keep it from dragging.
The same guy once hooked his wheels into a power line while spraying potato fields.
Those guys were born without the bone which causes fear.

 

[MossRoad]

Yep. Doesn't change anything. On the field or on the road, she still got hit. Very sad.

When I was a kid, we used to drive by Grissom Air Force Base in Peru, IN. It was called Bunker Hill AFB when I was a kid. There were low flying airplane signs on the US 31 highway on the west end of the field. We saw the aftermath of an incident where a plane crushed in the roof of a Volkswagen Beetle. Yikes!

 

[MossRoad]

There was a crop duster crash locally back on June 20. He lived. The plane, not so much...