Cessna 170 Plane Crash Shady Acres Airstrip - Spanaway WA

July 7, 2007. Spanaway, WA. The 1951 vintage Cessna flipped during take off, landing upside down on the runway. The pilot and two passengers had a fun ride. One passenger was taken and checked out at a local hospital. The crash totaled the aircraft. The plane is nearly folded in half while being uprighted.

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[AirlinePilotZJ]

isn't this the runway where it inter sects with a road?

[VX2100DV]

@AirlinePilotZJ Yes.

[fayik123]

how badly was he hurt. flipping one of those small aircraft at 70mph could be very nasty imagine. THat tiny cramped little cockpit. There's barely room to breath in these little light aircrafts. I'd take a brandnew gulf stream jet anyday over a cessna 172. MY hope is that in the future flying is made more affordable to everybody just like the family car and in the future i think people will be flying across the atlantic in their own planes and not being so dependent on comercial craft

[VX2100DV]

Shock only. No physical injuries.

[jesusrulesflight]

man thats 2 bad

ooh yea 100th comment i rules

sorry

but yea i feel bad for those guys and plane

what kind of cessna was it?

[VX2100DV]

170

[KiDFRANKKK]

Love how they just walk all over the plane? I mean its not totally ruined they can still fix the damn thing

[snuffy525]

poor salvage technique?? its buckled in the middle anyway, its totaled before they even hooked up to it, nothing could have been done to stop bending it. t this point it didn't make much difference how they up righted it.

[snuffy525]

Who asked if it was funny? even if someone was laughing.. what can you do??

[727freak]

it was bent in the middle due to poor salvage tecnique

[axs12345]

@fayik123 dude imagine all the jobs that will be lost by doing that imagine all the fathal chrases lost in sea you need to think be for you comment like that and flipping one of those '' small aircrafts '' and that ''tiny cramped little cockpit theres barely room to breath thes little light aircrafts . do you have any knowleg in airplanes or aviation and ps do you see any cramped little cockpit on that airplane . ppl like you are destraoying aviation you sound like on of those faa guys

[ophir37]

The Cessna 170 is very much a tail wheel 3 point landing aircraft. Its a good straight forward aircraft if you can fly tail wheel aircraft which are safer and easier to fly then a tri-gear. Better take-off performance and shorter landings. The 170 has to be flared in the round out. Doing a wheel on landing is not necessary in a 170 even in a cross wind. The only problem I have struck with a 170 is that with 3 position of flap out there can be a little bit of tailplane blanking.

[GuyECS]

What a shame. This aircraft survived many pilots...probably some that are now dead.

[carlosvaldes2007]

the FAA SHOULD MAKE A LAW THAT ALLOW ONLY FROM 2005 CESSNA TO FLY AND TAKE THOSE OLD'S CESSNAS PASS AWAY