The Tuskegee Airmen exhibit ( travelling exhibition) is still on after one of its P-51 Mustangs was involved in a minor crash at Tallahassee International Airport Thursday. The pilot of the plane was not injured after he left the runway while landing.
While smaller planes could still come and go, all commercial air traffic in or out of Tallahassee was suspended for more than three hours while a crane was mobilized to remove the broken plane and clear the runway.
“It basically went off the runway and came to rest on the side of the runway. There appears to be some damage to the landing gear,” Deputy Director of Aviation Jim Durwin said. “It’s in one piece.”
Durwin said airport officials have been in contact with the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board. He said the owners of the aircraft were working with federal officials and maintenance crews on repairing the plane as well as completing an investigation. The story of the Tuskegee Airmen while being immersed in a theatrical experience. The exhibit runs through Saturday
“The Red Tails exhibit is still going on as planned,” Durwin said. “But that aircraft is not going to be there as part of the display.”
By: Prop Strike - 9th November 2021 at 10:57
Thanks for picking that up. It crossed my mind that it could have referred to the previous incident, but it appeared to be contemporaneous, on first impressions.
Looks like the jury is still out on this, then.
By: Fargo Boyle - 9th November 2021 at 01:04
The extract from the report you quoted was from a previous accident to this aircraft in 2016, I almost fell for that as well assuming you got it from this site
as they confusingly run the previous report below the current one.
By: Prop Strike - 8th November 2021 at 22:41
Pilot’s statement
By: Zac Yates - 8th November 2021 at 00:02
It would be very difficult to make those skid marks with retracted gear!
By: Fargo Boyle - 7th November 2021 at 11:14
Re Propstrikes comment that the gear was not lowered, do you have a source for that? The pictures of the recovery I have seen show the starboard u/c down and the port partly retracted, also two skid marks on the runway. Looks more like a partial gear collapse leading to a runway excursion to my eye.
Mods I hope pasting a link to WIX is ok?
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By: adrian_gray - 7th November 2021 at 09:57
On the bright side, looks like nothing that chucking a sh*tload of greenbacks at it can’t fix.
By: Zac Yates - 6th November 2021 at 23:36
They do say bad things come in threes. Poor thing’s not had much luck over the years: fatal accident in 2004, landing gear locked up 2016, and now this.
By: Prop Strike - 6th November 2021 at 11:35
Signs are u/c was not lowered for landing.
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