Favorite Wife and air crash

  • Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 24, 2006 at 4:42 am #1251888

    First off, she’s ok! I know, I hate post with the subject line like that…you know you have to open them…but…you don’t want too…

    Some of you may know my favorite wife. She had started taking flying lessons a few years back (1997) and she got her license later that same year. Yesterday afternoon, she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was piloting when she was forced to make an emergency landing South of Hastings MN. because of bad weather. Some could call it a crash; an accident at the least. Our daughter was with me this weekend.

    National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a preliminary determination citing pilot error contributed to the accident, and Deb was flying a single engine aircraft (a basic model, at best) in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating) rating.

    The absence of a post-crash fire was likely due to insufficient fuel on board. No one on the ground was injured.

    Photographs below were taken at the scene show the extent of damage to her aircraft.

    She was very lucky.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 24, 2006 at 4:43 am #491929

    Thanks for passing this along Kooty! I’ve had fun with it all day!

    matt_grow
    Albertville MN
    Posts: 2019
    October 24, 2006 at 4:48 am #491933

    boy did I bite that. I need a 30 inch monitor

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 24, 2006 at 5:07 am #491935

    jakeh
    White Bear Twp
    Posts: 997
    October 24, 2006 at 5:30 am #491937

    Man. Should’ve known that was going to end with a

    bgrotte
    Rogers, MN
    Posts: 330
    October 24, 2006 at 5:37 am #491939

    Now thats funny….

    luckydog2
    The Villages Florida
    Posts: 364
    October 24, 2006 at 9:59 am #491947

    Ow….hook,line and sinker!!!

    chappy
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 4854
    October 24, 2006 at 10:19 am #491948

    You my friend are something else! If she’s the witch, Does that make you a flying Monkey OR the Wizzard?

    fishahollik
    South Range, WI
    Posts: 1776
    October 24, 2006 at 11:02 am #491950

    Hope her sens of humor is as good as yours or I think I know where the next “forced landing” will be

    Jami Ritter
    Hastings, MN
    Posts: 3065
    October 24, 2006 at 11:03 am #491951

    I’m guessing the Monkey!!

    Brian, I can hear your honeydew list getting longer.

    See ya man, it was nice knowing you.

    Jami

    mikev
    Posts: 114
    October 24, 2006 at 11:12 am #491957

    Now that’s funny.

    diesel
    Menomonee Falls, WI
    Posts: 1020
    October 24, 2006 at 11:59 am #491963

    Wow now that is gusty.

    I too fell for it.

    Brian Hoffies
    Land of 10,000 taxes, potholes & the politically correct.
    Posts: 6843
    October 24, 2006 at 12:02 pm #491964

    Ya got balls! Very little sense though.

    Good luck to you, it’s going to be a VERY long cold winter for you my friend.

    Ben Garver
    Hickman, Nebraska
    Posts: 3149
    October 24, 2006 at 12:10 pm #491967

    Good one Brian!!!

    trumar
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 5967
    October 24, 2006 at 12:22 pm #491973

    But, But, I thought her plane was light blue Brian
    Not Yellow

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    October 24, 2006 at 1:11 pm #491991

    OK, I was gut hooked too. I hope she thinks it’s as funny as you do, or that broom will find a new landing strip…

    big g

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    October 24, 2006 at 1:12 pm #491993

    Quote:

    Very little sense though

    No argument there!

    Kooty sent the email to me yesterday (he has more sense but smaller you know whats )

    When I showed it to the FW, she laughed…then giggled…then got quiet. I think she has a headache since then, as she hasn’t said much.

    Sleeping in the truck was kind of cold last night…

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    October 24, 2006 at 2:03 pm #492002

    My kids thought I was seeing things. I knew it! I knew it!
    I was RIGHT!!!

    She came in low, and banked hard! Splat!

    Darn near took out the shed in the back yard! I thought it was the Ex-wife!

    hoistafish1
    Long Prairie,MN
    Posts: 402
    October 24, 2006 at 3:35 pm #492025

    Good one Brian, my wife flys one of those new model Swiffers, it even comes with it’s own deiceing tank and changable landing pads!!!

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    October 24, 2006 at 3:49 pm #492033

    I’d don’t want to know how you know who has bigger kahoonas….

    Fishing Machine
    Lansing, Ia
    Posts: 810
    October 24, 2006 at 3:59 pm #492038

    Yup Just as I thought when I opened it to read.
    But I did have to Your very lucky she has a good sense of humor. For the time being. Better watch it though as she will get back at ya

    G_Smitty
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 1359
    October 24, 2006 at 4:42 pm #492058

    all I can say is “BALLS”!!!! It’s waaaaayyy too cold outside for sleeping in the doghouse these days!

    Doug Ertl
    St Cloud, MN
    Posts: 957
    October 24, 2006 at 5:12 pm #492071

    Got me Good.

    jeweler
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 543
    October 24, 2006 at 6:37 pm #492093

    I bite it too!!!!! Goot though, really good. ha.

    CrappieChatt
    Posts: 55
    October 24, 2006 at 8:33 pm #492121

    Ya know why witches don’t wear underware while flying a broom TO GET A BETTER GRIPP Just had to say it <*)}}}><

    eyejacker
    Hudson, Wisconsin
    Posts: 1890
    October 24, 2006 at 11:11 pm #399529

    Quote:

    I’d don’t want to know how you know who has bigger kahoonas….

    Probably a first hand observation!

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