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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

"Uncle Speaks About Niece Killed in I-15 Plane Crash "

"“She was just a blessing, Toni,” Philip Isbelle told NBC 7. “I can't anymore put into words what she was.” Toni Isbelle, Philip Isbelle’s niece, was killed sitting in the back seat of a car stopped on the side of Interstate 15 Saturday...."

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Uncle-Speaks-About-Niece-Killed-in-I-15-Plane-Crash--374444511.html

re BLOG HEADLINE PHOTO: actually, LUCKILY, the man on the beach was NOT killed. (not everybody else is so lucky)

"A man stretched out on the sand in

 northern Germany had a lucky 

escape when a light aircraft came 

in  to land almost right on top of 

him..."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10870749/Plane-almost-lands-on-
sunbather-on-German-beach.html

" Does a Plane have a Horn?" (yes & no) - KLM Blog

not the kind that can warn public people of danger: 
"So, the signalling system aboard an aircraft isn't really used in the same way as the hooters and horns aboard other vehicles and vessels. A pilot can't hoot at other aircraft. In fact, the horn doesn't work when the aircraft is in flight, because the signalling system is turned off.
Whereas horns in cars are mainly used as a warning system, the horn ..."


https://blog.klm.com/does-a-plane-have-a-horn/
Vk


Monday, April 4, 2016

4/3/15 ONE PERSON IN CAR KILLED BY PLANE LANDING ON FREEWAY IN SAN DIEGO

"The incident happened around 9 a.m. PT (noon ET) in Fallbrook on Interstate 15 North, about 50 miles from San Diego County when a single-engine, fixed-wing aircraft hit a Nissan, CHP spokesman Officer Chris Parent told NBC News. ...One person in the car died, and the three other occupants were taken to the hospital ...NBC San Diego reported the woman who was killed was Antoinette Frances Isbelle, 38, who was sitting in the back of the car...."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/plane-crashes-san-diego-area-freeway-killing-1-injuring-5-n549676

WELCOME!

EVERY NOW & THEN you hear a story about a small plane crash that kills people on the ground in the process of making an emergency landing. And in some of these tragic events , the airplane has no engine power and therefore is making virtually NO NOISE...; it is coasting downward hoping to land on a freeway or beach or golf course etc. And because it is almost silent, sometimes people on the ground have NO IDEA that something is happening above them, only seconds away.

And the pilot only has LIMITED choices about where to land and where the plane will roll, skid, or tumble to a stop after it hits the ground. And in some of these cases, the pilot and passengers may actually survive the crash while somebody on the ground is tragically killed. It's very tragic and there is one simple addition to all airplanes that could help prevent this from happening in some cases.

By adding a sturdy horn or siren or noisemaker, maybe similar to a car horn, but probably bigger, more like a truck horn, people could be made aware a few seconds ahead of time of impending doom. With just a few seconds warning, these people could look up, run, dive out of the way, take cover, etc, and perhaps avoid being injured or killed.

This would NOT be an expensive addition to airplanes. Preferably it would be a button that the pilot could push in case of emergency that would automatically keep repeating the horn or siren or whatever kind of noise-maker works best to alert people on the ground. It should be automatic because the pilot cannot concentrate on manually pushing a horn while also attempting to steer and navigate as best as possible to a crash landing of some sort. This is a very simple & inexpensive addition to aircraft of all kinds that might save some lives on the ground.

This blog will be posting cases of plane crashes or emergencylandings in which lives might have been saved if there had been a horn or noise-maker of some sort activated before reaching the ground. Talk to your legislators about this as a future requirement for all planes.. Here's an example of a possible preventable death if the airplane made some noise.

"A Georgia man was killed and his daughter critically injured Sunday when an airplane struck them as they walked along a Florida beach.
Sarasota County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Wendy Rose said Venice Municipal Airport officials reported a plane in distress Sunday afternoon...." 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/27/us/florida-plane-crash-lands-on-beach/

-vk-