Plane collision with tractor

[PILOON]

Lawn mowers are noisy by nature so she did not hear the plane approaching, more so as a landing plane would be powered back.
The plane in question was a low wing aircraft with very limited downward visibility, especially when turning for a tight landing.
Added is that landing strip is very narrow so the grass being mowed was up close.
The odds were about the same as for a mega jackpot.

 

[3930dave]

What model of plane was that Piloon ?

Rgds, D.

 

[Username Taken]

Was on the road riding my motorsickle one time when a crop duster went over me and dropped some kind of liquid, what I assumed was, insecticide on me. There was a a field on the side of the road. Thought it was tomatoes but not sure.

Anyway, he got me good enough that I had to go back to the house and wash up.

My hero --

 

[Thomas]

Dang.

 

[Jstpssng]

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

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That should buff out.

Off target movement or drift is not acceptable, and the operator is liable for not spraying the intended target/off the intended ownership. That may be different in Florida but I doubt it. Depending on what he was spraying, that pilot could have been criminally liable.

 

[PILOON]

What model of plane was that Piloon ?

Rgds, D.

Can't say for sure but a photo showing the damaged wing showed a 'low wing' with a radial engine and bashed up right wing*, some sort of older trainer aircraft that I could not identify.(and I am a pilot and AME)

*consistent with what I'd imagine having struck the mower driver.

 

[orezok]

Back about 40 years ago i was flying from San Diego to El Paso. My cousin hitched a ride with us to Yuma. At the time I was landing at a controlled airport that was shared by the military. Just as I am touching down I came to a cross runway and two F4's pass over me at about 20'. Had i bounced the landing or pulled up they would have squashed me and I didn't have an ejection seat! I don't know how that could happen at a controlled airport unless a couple of flyboys were just having "fun".

Tower never said anything.

 

[bcp]

Plane photos.

Quebec woman using riding lawnmower struck, killed by landing aircraft

A bizarre accident has claimed the life of a woman in her 20s who was struck and killed by a landing aircraft while she was cutting grass with a riding lawnmower at an airfield north of Montreal.

montreal.ctvnews.ca

Bruce

 

[3930dave]

Can't say for sure but a photo showing the damaged wing showed a 'low wing' with a radial engine and bashed up right wing*, some sort of older trainer aircraft that I could not identify.(and I am a pilot and AME)

*consistent with what I'd imagine having struck the mower driver.

The picture Bruce posted reminds me of a Harvard, but that article refers to other trainers of perhaps later production.

I was curious about the downwards visibility issue.

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Back about 40 years ago i was flying from San Diego to El Paso. My cousin hitched a ride with us to Yuma. At the time I was landing at a controlled airport that was shared by the military. Just as I am touching down I came to a cross runway and two F4's pass over me at about 20'. Had i bounced the landing or pulled up they would have squashed me and I didn't have an ejection seat! I don't know how that could happen at a controlled airport unless a couple of flyboys were just having "fun".

Tower never said anything.

There's the line about Old Pilots vs. Bold Pilots.....

Experience doesn't preclude basic or even fatal errors....

List of air show accidents and incidents in the 20th century - Wikipedia

Rgds, D.