Wed, May 07, 2008
C182 May Have Lost Power On Takeoff
The pilot of a Cessna 182L was
slightly injured when his aircraft came to rest inverted in the
backyards of two homes near Bowman Field (LOU) in Louisville, KY
Wednesday morning.
Local officials say the plane's engine lost power shortly after
takeoff from LOU.
WAVE-3 reports the pilot was able to free himself from the
wreckage. No one on the ground was injured, although residents were
briefly evacuated while fire department officials determined
whether any fuel was leaking from the plane.
Things could have been far worse. Witnesses say the plane barely
missed power lines, and not a drop of fuel spilled from the plane's
full tanks.
"I heard a thud, and at first I got the impression that a couple
cars had crashed or somebody maybe hit a parked car," said Dave
Young, who lives two doors down from the accident site. But it
wasn't anything that really made me roll out of bed -- I thought it
may have been down on I-64.
"And then I heard an ambulance, and I got up immediately, and as
I came out they were loading the pilot on a gurney into an
ambulance and evacuating everybody on the block."
Young says he's lived near the airport for close to 50 years,
and had never seen an accident until recently. Wednesday's crash
was the second near the airport in the past month; a Cessna P210N
impacted near the field April 6, while trying to land at LOU.
"You think about, you know, being so close to the airport --
we've been here 47 years -- and it never happened before," Young
said. "It's pretty frightening, actually."
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