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A Crashing Small Plane Was Snagged by Power Lines, Stopping a Foot From Disaster
By artappraiser on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 11:39pm |
in Valley Stream, NY. Credit: Theodore Parisienne
The police arrived to find the aircraft hanging from the cables, and the pilot and two passengers sitting on a curb, mostly unharmed.
By Michael Gold @ NYTimes.com, April 15
A small plane carrying three people had made six attempts to land in the thick fog around New York City on Sunday night and was heading for a seventh before it ran out of fuel above Long Island.
The plane, a Cessna 172, was not going to make it to an airport, and as it hurtled instead toward a residential area in suburban Valley Stream, N.Y., a disaster seemed imminent [....]
The emergency landing, if it can be called a landing, was perhaps not on the scale of the “Miracle on the Hudson,” but it was a miraculous one nonetheless. The plane was intact, as was the house it stopped in front of, according to Detective Vincent Garcia, a Nassau County police spokesman [....]
URL:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/nyregion/plane-crash-valley-stream.html
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