Piper Cherokee Crash 13 Dec 2007

Piper Cherokee PA28-7816483 (VH-JDI) crashes just short of Sorrento Golf Club just after 2.30 AEST. Clips power lines on approach but four occupants luckily escape serious injury. Media claims that the "... pilot voluntarily dropped the wings of the aircraft. That can be done on these small Cessna's" :)

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• sorrento
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[brain208]

stupid guy telling the story drop the wings ???????

[Timrabladet]

Drop the wings ??? Ha Ha, When did a Piper PA28 become a Cessna ??

[gggggggggggggggggg16]

I was with the Sorrento ses cut them free

[SoreHead11]

LMFAO. Dropped the wings voluntarily. Glad I never pressed that secret button by mistake.

As for Cessna/Piper you all have better eyesight than me. I can just see a little white blur with a blue tail.

[aerobatic500]

No one is neglecting the Cessna Corvalis 400. it's just that it was not originally made by Cessna, they just bought the Columbia company. So that plane was more popularly known as the Columbia 400.

[bughole69]

They should have deployed the planes reserve wings (standard on all Cessna Cherokees, optional on Pipers). Were they beaten with a stupid stick...I mean seriously?

[Jamesfromnyc]

That is some funny shit! He musta pressed the blue button! I told ya not to press that one ya idot!! Ha......

[PA28140]

LOL What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PA28140]

It seems every time one has a problem, it is always a "Cessna" no matter what the make...

[ihatecessnas]

yea I think it was a good decision to jettison the wings with all that petrol inside them so they didnt explode, great pilot skill