Sounds like everyone is ok, but what a bummer.


http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=144404

Holy cow! Glad they made it out OK.

wow. Bummer for sure. Glad they're okay though.

That sucks Terry. Glad the old bird did her job in keeping them safe.

That sucks! Glad everyone is Ok. Not sure how you over run at Columbia.

Not sure who has the right story on this...Airport manager indicated it went down on T/O, another source says "suddenly lost power", etc. The park is to the north of the airport, but winds were 230 at 4.

A takeoff on 35 doesn't make much sense, given 35 is uphill with a slight tailwind component.

An overshoot could be possible if too high with a tailwind component, then not enough power to climb on a go around.

At noon on Tues AWOS was calling 95 deg F which calculates a DA of 5000.

Glad the occupants were okay. What a shame to lose another beautiful bird.

You know, that's one of my big worries that someday I'll ball up my airplane. Yeah, it's just one of many 172's, but they don't make fastbacks with manual flaps anymore. I love this thing.

GroundLooper wrote: but they don't make fastbacks with manual flaps anymore. I love this thing.

+1

You've got a great classic, and there's less and less all the time.