Someone are using "walked away" how a minor problem. Sorry, a death is great problem and you yet worry about the rest of the plane? I can not understand. Throw this things out in the trash and remember the will and the parents of the pilots. Just a little of humanity, please!!!
This A-26 was owned by The Collins Foundation. They said the airframe was too damaged. They removed usable parts were removed & sent to FL. Most of the airframe was scrapped. Part of the fuselage is a keepsake for someone in Kankakee. Collins acquired another A-26 airframe & have all the parts to restore the aircraft. The problem: cost to restore is over one million & the value of a flying A-26 is less than $300,000. Bottom line, it isn't going to happen.
Thank God the crew walked away. The plane didn't look like it was totaled. Were they able to restore it? I believe that you can count the amount of flyable A-26s on one hand.
I remember this crash. I was there, working the show with the PV2 Harpoon Hot Stuff. It was extremely stignificant to me with this bird crashing because my family had used to work for the organization that owns My Mary Lou and we knew the crew. If you watch the vid, towards the end of the abortive takeoff roll you can see a plane at the end of the runway, to the side. This is the Blue Angel's Fat Albert.... They got to the crash before the FD on scene.
NO ONE DIED. The pilots were fine.
lghollyonTwitter1 3 weeks ago
Someone are using "walked away" how a minor problem. Sorry, a death is great problem and you yet worry about the rest of the plane? I can not understand. Throw this things out in the trash and remember the will and the parents of the pilots. Just a little of humanity, please!!!
adauto3000 3 weeks ago
Classic twin mistake. They had plenty of room to stop. shoulda pulled power on both plants instead of trying to get off on one.
ROCKSTARCRANE 5 months ago
@ROCKSTARCRANE You don't ever "pull power" past the decision point, is it "V1?"
ProChoiceJesus 1 month ago
This A-26 was owned by The Collins Foundation. They said the airframe was too damaged. They removed usable parts were removed & sent to FL. Most of the airframe was scrapped. Part of the fuselage is a keepsake for someone in Kankakee. Collins acquired another A-26 airframe & have all the parts to restore the aircraft. The problem: cost to restore is over one million & the value of a flying A-26 is less than $300,000. Bottom line, it isn't going to happen.
lghollyonTwitter1 5 months ago
Thank God the crew walked away. The plane didn't look like it was totaled. Were they able to restore it? I believe that you can count the amount of flyable A-26s on one hand.
jackcogswell 5 months ago
dr jones...its a crash!
PortlandViper 6 months ago
The pilots were fine, they walked away.
lghollyonTwitter1 7 months ago
@lghollyonTwitter1 Sure, the pilots were fine and jolly after destroying a vintage plane by student pilot error. So fine, so fine.
CFITOMAHAWK 1 month ago
Did the pilots die or what? Cheers
relativeair 7 months ago
@0:37 thats not good
honeyplug 7 months ago
I remember this crash. I was there, working the show with the PV2 Harpoon Hot Stuff. It was extremely stignificant to me with this bird crashing because my family had used to work for the organization that owns My Mary Lou and we knew the crew. If you watch the vid, towards the end of the abortive takeoff roll you can see a plane at the end of the runway, to the side. This is the Blue Angel's Fat Albert.... They got to the crash before the FD on scene.
frazzemrat1 1 year ago
O'mylanta it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a crash!
Jman
Kabul81 1 year ago
Ouch! I guess there wasn't enough runway length left to abort the landing.
zildjiandrummr12 1 year ago