Aviation Accident of the Month

From Germany comes this amazing feat:

A German pilot and driver escaped unhurt when a one-seater plane landed on top of a speeding car at a little-used airport, police in the western town of Bitburg said on Wednesday.

The driver was racing at 160 kph (100 mph) with 11 other members of a local Porsche club at the airport, a former U.S. air base, when the single-engine plane accidentally landed on his roof. The shocked driver slammed on the brakes, sending the plane crashing to the ground.

Maybe German regulations are a little different from U.S. regs, but if that happened on an open runway here in the States, the pilot certainly wouldn’t be at fault — the drivers would be the ones getting arrested.

Of course, the pilot is an idiot for not noticing it in the first place, too.

posted by Chris on 06 July 2005 at 1944 in aviation

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