Fatal Plane Crash Recovery/ Upright Attempt Thurston County

Thurston County WA, June 29, 2003. The pilot from Oregon attempted an emergency landing in the field near the intersection of Vail Cutoff Road SE and Runyon Road SE. The plane flipped on the rough ground killing the lone pilot the night before.

Several attempts were made to right the aircraft. I had to leave for Seattle before they were successful. I do not know the make of this aircraft. It Maybe a kit plane. Does anyone know? Thank you

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[infowarrior67]

Rans RV-4 and it doesn't look fatal.

[VX2100DV]

blunt force trauma to the head.

[knifeedge63]

hey VX2100DV that airplane is an rans rv8.

[VX2100DV]

Thank you.  It's the first and only time so far that I've seen this make/model.

[SkuIICrusherGhost]

@infowarrior67 Your one of those dicks that think humans are made of steel,

SHUT YUR FACE AND BOB FOR AN APPLE !!

Oh and WAKE UP !!

[moogsoyoloo]

no no no no

[Sstantial]

It needed to be picked straight up with a crane so as not to roll it over on its engine. Totally wrong way to do this!!! Place I worked at had one flip over in a wind storm. We used a cherry picker off a large salvage truck and it worked perfect because it picked it up high enough.

[SteveD328]

A serious case of overkill with the recovery equipment. It's not really that hard to do.

[Creamsodagirl11]

Did anyone Die???

[EvilTwinTT]

Might of been salvageable before these clowns had a go a righting it!

[bessybessy]

RIP poor Pilot. But they from recovery are stupid :(

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

look on 2:04 and on. It is very clear the sole guy trying to hold the left wing down needs help to keep it down so it flips with that wing down but the two lazy aholes standing next to him don't want to move a finger and help him. I Flipped a few myself with wing down technique but one man is not enough. Was this in the USA?

[carlosmurphy4u]

Why don't ya get the two dick heads just standing there watching to help the other two guy's to hold the wingtips level???

[inagod]

sad,the guy most likely,was just like the rest of us,build your own plane and fly it,pure excitment.I think deep down we all know,things can go wrong real quick