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Sunday, March 12, 2017
Pilot killed after a Quad City Challenger II CWS impacted a stationary vehicle following a hard landing at the Oakdale Airport in California
A mid-morning crash at the Oakdale Airport had one confirmed fatality and emergency crews and law enforcement personnel on scene.
The aircraft went down about 10:30 a.m. and had one person on board. Police were in the preliminary stages of the investigation Saturday morning, March 11 and had not yet released the type of aircraft or the identity of the deceased pilot.
Witnesses said they saw the small aircraft approaching the airport from the opposite direction of the normal landing pattern and then it went down. The plane came to rest near a hangar and also caught a nearby pick-up truck on fire.
Alan Alcock of Oakdale was working in his hangar at the airport on Saturday when the incident occurred.
“I saw it take off about an hour before, heard it buzzing around a few times,” he said. “Then all of a sudden I hear this big bang, I thought that was odd, I came out and it was all on fire.”
Oakdale Police, Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District units, Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department personnel and Oak Valley Ambulance crews were all on scene.
Authorities received multiple 9-1-1 calls of the crash, with a plume of black smoke visible from the city.
The airport is on Laughlin Road, off Sierra, about three miles outside Oakdale.
Date:11-MAR-2017
Time: 10:30
Type: Quad City Challenger II CWS
Owner/operator: Private
Registration: N2621T
C/n / msn: CH2-0199-CW-1838
Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities: 0
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Oakdale Airport (O27), Oakdale, CA -
United States of America Phase: Landing
Nature: Unknown
Departure airport:
Destination airport: Oakdale (O27)
Narrative:
The aircraft, an experimental Seltzer built Challenger II Clipped Wing Special, impacted a stationary vehicle following a hard landing at the Oakdale Airport (O27) in Oakdale, California.
The crash happened in front of the western most hanger on the north side of the runway.
Witnesses say the plane may have experienced engine troubles prior to landing.
The airplane was partially consumed by the post-impact fire and the sole pilot onboard received fatal injuries.
Sources:
http://www.kcra.com/article/one-dead-after-plane-crashes-at-oakdale-airport/9121568
http://www.modbee.com/news/article137946228.html
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2017/03/fatal-accident-occurred-march-11-2017_11.html
http://fox40.com/2017/03/11/report-plane-crashed-at-oakdale-airport/
Date
| Owner | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Dec-2015 | ROFF ALLAN W | SACRAMENTO CA |
| 04-Sep-2015 | REGISTRATION PENDING | SACRAMENTO CA |
| 07-Jan-2013 | SICHER DONALD E | LANCASTER CA |
| 10-Sep-2012 | REGISTRATION PENDING | LANCASTER CA |
| 27-Mar-2010 | WOLTERS DAVID C | NAPA CA |
| 28-Nov-2008 | SCHOOLEY KENNETH L | FALLBROOK CA |
| 10-Oct-2008 | REGISTRATION PENDING | FALLBROOK CA |
| 28-Sep-2007 | SELTZER WILLIAM I | BURBANK CA |
Utility worker electrocuted while working from elevated bucket on a business sign at the former Pizza Hut on Owen Road in Fenton, MI
FENTON, MICHIGAN
Emergency responders work to save the life of a 23-year-old utility worker from Burton, who was shocked while working on a business sign at the former Pizza Hut on Owen Road at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7.
The man was working from an elevated bucket when he was shocked. The bucket was lowered and emergency responders, including the Fenton Fire Department and STAT EMS provided medical care.
He was transported to Genesys Health Park in Grand Blanc Township with life-threatening injuries for further treatment.
FIERY UNION PACIFIC TRAIN DERAILMENT: A Union Pacific train hauling 99 tankers of ethanol derailed and caught fire on a trestle bridge spanning Jack Creek near Graettinger, IA spilling ethanol into the creek
A federal safety official called on the rail industry to move faster to upgrade aging rail tankers following a fiery train derailment in rural Iowa that spilled ethanol into a creek and was still burning nearly two days after it erupted.
A Union Pacific train hauling 99 tankers of ethanol from a producer in Omaha, Nebraska, derailed around 1 a.m. Friday on a trestle bridge spanning Jack Creek near Graettinger, about 160 miles northwest of Des Moines. It sent off the tracks 20 tanker cars considered by federal investigators as older, less sturdy tanks set to be phased out over the next dozen years. Fifteen of them caught fire, National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said at a news conference Saturday evening. The train left from a plant in Superior, Iowa, heading for Texas City, Texas, he said.
The derailment in Iowa happened miles from any communities, and no one was injured. The fire occasionally sent explosions and fireballs high into the sky as highly flammable ethanol fumes poured from the ruptured tanks. NTSB officials said that some of the tankers, which carry about 25,000 gallons each, had spilled ethanol into the creek, but environmental officials don't believe it's enough to be toxic to wildlife or fish.
Iowa Natural Resources field office manager Kenneth Hessenius said Friday that checks of water downstream found no obvious signs of a spill.
New federal regulations on tank-car trains face challenges
Two tankers were still burning by 7 p.m. Saturday, Sumwalt said. He said the train consisted solely of an older type of car known as the DOT-111. The agency deemed that tanker a hazard as far back as 1991, noting its steel shell is too thin to resist puncture in accidents. The ends are especially vulnerable to tears from couplers that can fly up after ripping off between cars.
Sumwalt said few crude oil shippers now use the older tankers, after recent emphasis in the industry about the danger of it.
"But meanwhile, people have forgotten about the potential hazard of transporting ethanol using these cars," he said. "We would like to see the shippers accelerate their schedule to get these legacy DOT-111 tank cars out of service when transporting flammable liquids — specifically crude oil and ethanol."
There have been at least seven significant accidents involving trains hauling ethanol since 2006 that released a combined 2 million gallons of the fuel.
"God forbid this happens in a community or with people sitting in their cars waiting for the train to go by. It's not like we haven't seen that kind of tragedy before," said Karen Darch, co-chair of an Illinois-based coalition of local officials, called TRAC, that has pushed for rail safety enhancements. The group was formed after a 2009 derailment of ethanol tankers killed a woman at a crossing in Cherry Valley, Illinois. Darch is village president of neighboring Barrington, Illinois.
Even though investigators have not been able to examine the site of the Iowa derailment because of the fire, they have interviewed the derailed train's two-man crew, as well as the crew of a train that passed through the area around midday Thursday, Sumwalt said.
"Neither of these crews saw anything unusual," he said.
Nothing that would have been an obvious cause of the derailment was spotted from viewing a front-facing video taken from a camera in the derailed train's locomotive, he said.
Federal rules enacted in 2015 call for replacing or retrofitting the aging, soda can-shaped rail tankers by 2029, although most would have to come off the tracks sooner. Those that carry ethanol would have to be replaced by 2023.
