Plane lands on 4-lane in Wise

**starbuck** · August 29th, 2010, 05:56 PM

I'm not sure which way it landed but it could have been coming head on with a car. I'd assume the pilot chose the lane with less to no traffic to set it down.

**Ironlung** · August 29th, 2010, 06:30 PM

He landed going in the right direction in the southbound lane.

**R13** · August 30th, 2010, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by starbuck

might be because the board was down a few hours yesterday???????

Huhhhh?

Was all over facebook though, of course something like that can't happen around here without people acting/saying stupid things, guy that works at sonic said he "just saw a plane crash" lol.

**starbuck** · August 30th, 2010, 04:40 PM

Because for 4 or 5 hours Saturday there were no new post. when I tried to read a topic and click on it it came back as a 505 error of something. so I assume that No one was able to post for the same 4-5 hours.

**MikeJones** · August 30th, 2010, 06:14 PM

I wonder if they will fine him or anything

**Ironlung** · August 30th, 2010, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by starbuck

Because for 4 or 5 hours Saturday there were no new post. when I tried to read a topic and click on it it came back as a 505 error of something. so I assume that No one was able to post for the same 4-5 hours.

^^^ Yep.

The reason a lot of people thought it was a crash was because you could hear the engine sputtering and then it was obvious that it went down. Nothing wrong with anyone thinking that. I know some folks that were in the Peebles parking lot when it was going down and 9 people out of 10 would think it's going down/crashing, not landing on the 4 lane.

**imported_elp6n** · August 30th, 2010, 07:51 PM

It doesnt help the rumor mill any when some people just get flat out caught up in hysteria.
I had one person call me to tell me about it (I was in Kingsport). They were in the KFC parking lot telling me how messed up the plane was after 'the crash' and how bad it looked. No joke. This was after I had suggested to them that it was likely an emergency landing. "oh no it's not even on the road it's up over the ditch and hill and it's really messed up"

**Ironlung** · August 30th, 2010, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by imported_elp6n

It doesnt help the rumor mill any when some people just get flat out caught up in hysteria.
I had one person call me to tell me about it (I was in Kingsport). They were in the KFC parking lot telling me how messed up the plane was after 'the crash' and how bad it looked. No joke. This was after I had suggested to them that it was likely an emergency landing. "oh no it's not even on the road it's up over the ditch and hill and it's really messed up"

That's just a whole nother' level of ruh tard.

**imported_elp6n** · August 30th, 2010, 08:15 PM

I knew what I was working with, so I took it all with a grain of salt.

**LCAS_712** · August 31st, 2010, 05:17 PM

I was acutally the first person to him after he stopped. I was with lifecare and we heard there was a plane making an emergency landing from another lifecare crew and they were following it. When I first pulled up to him and asked if he was alright he said "yeah, just ran out of gas, if you can could you call someone to bring some out to me and ill get out of here". haha just something you dont see everyday thats for sure.