Last week I posted about a DeHavilland Beaver which crashed during take-off from Lake Hood, here in Anchorage. Here's the video, in HD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwlodvWh7w
Psalm 22:27-28: “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he ruleth among the nations.”
2 comments:
Unbelievable footage! It looks like the plane was trying to take off in a cross wind and even a scardy cat like me knows that is no-no unless you've got a lot more water than he seemed to have. Is that a channel he's heading for--sort of a canal/runway? If so, the wind blew him off course and the pilot had little chance to get the Beaver airborne. Darn shame!
You're exactly correct. The pilot stated, in the newspaper account, that a gust of wing blew him toward his left, and he simply couldn't correct his course.
Lake Hood has several "fingers" that are essentially long, dead-end canals. That's where the pilot was headed.
One goes directly along the edge of a parking lot, which is where the photographer was standing. We've been there many times, but never with that much excitement!
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