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brooklynite

(94,502 posts) Sat Apr 17, 2021, 02:48 PM Apr 2021

Emergency landing at Cocoa Beach...

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Emergency landing at Cocoa Beach... (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2021 OP

Whattya mean this isn't a float plane? Wounded Bear Apr 2021 #1

You know George HW Bush's saying whistler162 Apr 2021 #6

So far as emergency landings go, it looked pretty smooth. nt Buns_of_Fire Apr 2021 #2

A Grumman Avenger, Baby Brother Buzz Apr 2021 #3

wow, he nailed that one onethatcares Apr 2021 #4

I was sitting on the beach at Santa Monica (CA) one time in the '70's and watched a small plane mnhtnbb Apr 2021 #5

...Any landing you can walk away from... Liberal In Texas Apr 2021 #7

There were a lot of swimmers in the water. El Supremo Apr 2021 #8

There are lots of restored WWII planes still flying, MarineCombatEngineer Apr 2021 #9

Wounded Bear

(58,647 posts)

1. Whattya mean this isn't a float plane?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 02:58 PM

Apr 2021

I can joke because it looks like the pilot made it out OK. Nice splashdown, though. That is a difficult maneuver to finish without flipping the plane or worse.

whistler162

(11,155 posts)

6. You know George HW Bush's saying

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 03:32 PM

Apr 2021

any landing you can swim away from is a good landing.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,174 posts)

2. So far as emergency landings go, it looked pretty smooth. nt

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 02:59 PM

Apr 2021

Brother Buzz

(36,416 posts)

3. A Grumman Avenger, Baby

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 03:18 PM

Apr 2021

Aviator made it out safely. The plane looks to be salvageable, but it will involve a boatload of work.

onethatcares

(16,166 posts)

4. wow, he nailed that one

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 03:26 PM

Apr 2021

prop up, tail down, slide into homeplate.

that was some mighty fine piloting. or in the words of a boating friend of mine, "Another successful crash landing"...

mnhtnbb

(31,382 posts)

5. I was sitting on the beach at Santa Monica (CA) one time in the '70's and watched a small plane

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 03:28 PM

Apr 2021

make an emergency landing in the ocean. Pilot was ok. Story in the LA Times next day identified the pilot as F. Lee Bailey, who had been a Marine Corps pilot. This was many years prior to him being one of OJ's defense attorneys.

Liberal In Texas

(13,546 posts)

7. ...Any landing you can walk away from...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 03:55 PM

Apr 2021

Or swim in this case. Nicely done.

El Supremo

(20,365 posts)

8. There were a lot of swimmers in the water.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 08:16 PM

Apr 2021

Sorry, but that was dangerous. And that plane is about 75 years old. Should it have been flying?

MarineCombatEngineer

(12,363 posts)

9. There are lots of restored WWII planes still flying,

Reply to El Supremo (Reply #8)

Sat Apr 17, 2021, 08:25 PM

Apr 2021

They've been completely rebuilt and inspected and certified for flight.
We don't know what went wrong here, but this can happen to just about any aircraft, no matter how modern it is, especially prop driven planes.

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