Of course the media is calling it a crash. Judging from the name I'm guessing they were possibly Czech or otherwise tourists from elsewhere. The ages of all involved is on the younger side, good for them, too bad they had too much air in the fuel tanks. One guy and two girls, thata boy!

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ ... lane-crash

Kinda dinged up the airplane a little. http://www.localnews8.com/news/three-su ... y/34562294

Cary

LOOKS LIKE NO PROP STRIKE

DAN

Looks like he did a good job. Hard to get a short wing down slowly enough w/o power. High sink rate when slow enough.

Saved the prop.

Maybe no power?

Looks like good terrain to lose a motor over if you had to.

I 'like' how the reporter said that the bystander who 'walked out' to investigate was 'not injured'.

Not injured by what? Walking? Like the plane would attack her?

This kid is a friend of a friend. Plane is based at Centennial and belonged to Aspen Flying club. The guy is ex polish military over here on a work visa - he did a good job as far as I can tell. Edit - well other than that whole letting too much air in the tanks thing.

I won't say what I think about running out of fuel because I don't want to jinks myself. Knocking on wood now.

KTVB in Boise reported the power loss was due to running out of fuel. I'm sure that's the first thing the NTSB checks, so presumably it must be based on something? A 23 year old male pilot and two female passengers. Landing was way better than lawn-darting it in, glad everyone is OK.

Holy Cow!! The engine quit and they managed to get it down and walk away!!
Kinda just like the Just STOL
Where is all the uproar!!
Oh already thinking he ran out of gas!! Is that not much worse then having your engine quit and still have gas?????
Tough crew!!
What nobody took a video 2 minutes before!!
The engine quit, you hit the ground, if your lucky youu do it in a good spot and you walk away, If you don't do a good job, you go in a bag!!

In other news, a neighbor drove his car through his garage door and ran over his child's bicycle... Where is the national coverage on that?

I hear there was some sort of problem with fuel system or a leak - not as simple as forgetfulness. I'm sure the details will come out in the investigation. Benefit of the doubt for now. Good job!

Bagarre wrote:In other news, a neighbor drove his car through his garage door and ran over his child's bicycle... Where is the national coverage on that?

Precisely my thoughts.