3 die as Canadian plane crashes in New York state

[#juan]

I had a friend that died in a plane crash years back in a twin engine Cessna around Caledon Ontario.

He flew into some fog and probably did not pay attention to his instrument and hit some trees and landed in a farmers field and the plane was intact.

Six months later I was watching a Transport Canada on plane crashes on Discovery channel and my friend’s plane crash was one of the cases they filmed and in the story I found out when you hit trees or crash in a forest the horizontal branches on the trees are like spears and it will skewer you and that is what happened to my friend.

The investigators said that if the branch didn’t get him he would be alive to tell about it.

The plane that took off from Oshawa landed in a forest and I have to assume that this is how they met their end.

There are so many ways to die in a plane crash I wouldn't even try to list them. When an aircraft at flying speed, crashes into the forest, the aircraft usually starts to come apart.........shedding wings, tailplanes, engines, etc. If the fuselage stays intact and the impact loads were not too high, and there was no fire, people could survive. It is completely up to chance. It depends a lot on the type of aircraft, the terrain, the airspeed, and a lot of other things.

 

[able]

In 63, a s/l who had been drinking decided to buzz Foymount in his expediter. Actually flew between the towers. His luck ran out while he was coming back for another pass. They had to pick up the pieces in garbage bags. Incidents like that have to make you think he decided that was going to be his last flight before he even started the engines. We certainly used to see the damndest things in the old days. Did you ever get the feeling you could write a book about all those things? We even had an incident at Mont Apica where live rounds were fired in anger.

 

[#juan]

There was an advanced flying training school at Saskatoon. On the same base there was 406 Squadron. A Reserve squadron for weekend warriors. 406 was one of the last armed Bomber squadrons in Canada. One weekend while I was waiting to start my course a young reservist fired nine fifty caliber rounds into downtown Saskatoon through the hanger doors. All he had to do was push in the right circuit breakers and pull the trigger. Nobody reported anything. I'm guessing all the guardian angels were on duty that week end....;-)

 

[able]

Oh those reservists, while at Camp Borden, saw one of them messing with the aileron of a cf100. Came back around 2 hours later, and he was putting a badly mangled aileron back on. Can remember the foul expression on his face to this day. The incident at Mont Apica happened because the new CO wanted to add realism to a security exercise. He, the 2i/c and a couple of guys put a staff car sideways on the tower road, poured some red paint, and put a sign vive quebec libre beside it. An unscheduled run came up, saw the mess, and rushed back to the townsite to report. The admin officer knew nothing, called it an actual, and sent a busload of men up the tower road armed with sten guns and live ammo. When they reached the car, the CO and others opened up on them with blanks paff paff paff. The detail piled out of the bus and cut loose with live rounds budd budd budd. The two guys were behind poles on one side of the road, and surrendered instantly when they heard the live rounds go splat splat splat into the posts. The 2i/c thundered off into the bush on the other side of the road, followed by numerous bursts fired in his direction (thank God for RCAF marksmanship). The CO was lying face down at the top of the snowbank when he was captured by a french speaking AFP who let loose a string of profanities prior to kicking him in the back and knocking him down in the road. This CO was new, and didn't know one word of french. Next day, he had to go to NORAD HQ at North Bay. Nobody got a scratch, but I can imagine the CO's rear end must have got badly damaged. How is that for an example of RCAF shooting?