They should probably just build an airstrip in downtown Phoenix AZ

[danny_galaga]

Yet another landing on a road, with just the gods preventing injury and death to people on the ground 

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Dunno about the GODS bit. Roads appear inviting when the fan stops.  There's no Place to Pull over and Park in the sky. Nev

[danny_galaga]

5 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Dunno about the GODS bit. Roads appear inviting when the fan stops.  There's no Place to Pull over and Park in the sky. Nev

For sure. Just seems like there are ONLY public roads for people to land on in a country about the size of Australia. Hence I think they should just build airstrips in the middle of every town and city there 😄

[facthunter]

In early days of Aviation Race Courses used to be used. , Isn't Land expensive where you Propose?  Airports only get closed to build Houses Not the Other way around. There's NO where to land over water or steep Timbered country. Your Plane has to be reliable enough to Not Need to. Nev

[danny_galaga]

20 minutes ago, facthunter said:

In early days of Aviation Race Courses used to be used. , Isn't Land expensive where you Propose?  Airports only get closed to build Houses Not the Other way around. There's NO where to land over water or steep Timbered country. Your Plane has to be reliable enough to Not Need to. Nev

Sometimes I wonder if you are a Turing test. I'm on the verge of thinking you are a computer 😄

 

On serious note, Darwin as you know, basically grew AROUND the airport. That is some pretty desirable land.

[facthunter]

  It Becomes Valuable later and is always a relatively Large area of Land that greedy developers can't Keep their Hands off. Even when the Airport was there first the Later residents complain about the Noise and want it closed down so as their Investment will Improve in Value.  Darwin was always a strategic aerodrome. . Nev

[red750]

Here's another one in LA, lucky to survive.

 

 

[facthunter]

AI involved?  Nev

[danny_galaga]

6 hours ago, red750 said:

Here's another one in LA, lucky to survive.

 

 

Christ on a stick! Looks like they need to build a few airstrips in the middle of LA too 😄. A few because LA is freakin HUGE. 

[danny_galaga]

On 23/04/2026 at 1:37 PM, red750 said:

Here's another one in LA, lucky to survive.

 

 

Looks like the LA plane was actually on (a very long) final. He might have been able to divert to the road parallel to the runway (I'll allow that!) but he might have still hit wires. 

 

 

[facthunter]

Those Images don't quite tally up. Is there an AI input.? Nev

[Thruster88]

17 hours ago, facthunter said:

Those Images don't quite tally up. Is there an AI input.? Nev

It did happen. Aircraft was very slow, under carriage hooks on wires resulting in the nose over. There was an RAAus aircraft a year or two back did something similar on final approach, I think it did a complete forward somersault before hitting the ground.

[facthunter]

I know it relates to a real occurrence The flash was odd and the wires didn't appear to move.  nev