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...yes around the outskirts of Houston, fire department services are provided by local volunteer fire departments.  David appears to be the manager of the volunteer fire department.  I am sure he is trained for certain types of responses but don't know how much training he has for aircraft related responses.  There are gear ups every once-in-a-while and they get no press.  I guess it depends upon someone calling 911 which prompt lots of dispatches including news crews.

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So, do we know the validity of which he speaks?  I think his comments, as uneducated as I believe them to be, are unfavorable for us poor flying saps being bludgened by the public and media for being such an unsafe activity that it needs to be regulated out of existance.  Maybe some group like the AOPA can take this up with the reporter and educate Mr. Bessolo and the public.

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I figured it was Hooks when I saw the water in the foreground.  I fly into there regularly on business.  Nice airport and much less likely to get the dreaded departure out over the Gulf that I would get regularly flying out of Sugarland.  


 


Am surprised the nose gear collapsed as I recall the area around the runways to be flat grass.  

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Hank Grand Master

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Annual automobile trips in the US:  100's of millions, perhaps Billions


Swimming/diving trips throughout the country:  10's of millions, maybe less


Annual GA trips:  10's of thousands


Guess which one leads the pack in fatalities/100 million hours [the NTSB standard unit of comparison]?


I will grant you that any aircraft accident, no matter how minor, gets far too much publicity with nonsense quotes like "an airplane crash without injuries is a miracle," while the only auto accidents that make the news are the really large or especially gruesome ones simply because there's not enough time or paper to record and distribute them all, even in small towns. Car wrecks and deaths are simply too commonplace for notice, but how many accidents were there at your local airport this year? There are 4 airports in my local area; 2009 = 2 fatals; 2010 = none, I think; 2011 = 3 non-fatals and counting. There were >3 car wrecks in town last week, I'm sure.

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In the last couple of years my airport has had three mishaps, and two happened to be Mooneys. One ran out of fuel coming in for a prebuy (don't ask) and was totaled in a field a few miles north of the field and the other Mooney had a gear malfunction upon touchdown and slid off the side of the runway. In the third incident a Cherokee landed about 10' short of our 6000' runway and damaged all sorts of stuff. Good news. is that all walked away with no major injuries, other than their egos.

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I read on some site I came across searching for tips on flying with infants, some ignorant person refered to 'babies flying', as 'safe as travelling with them bungeed to the back of a motorcycle in their car seat', and then went on to say general aviation is almost 100% fatality rate. Makes my blood boil that ignorant folks like that are the ones that knock flying, based on absolutley nothing.

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Quote: Hank

Annual automobile trips in the US:  100's of millions, perhaps Billions

Swimming/diving trips throughout the country:  10's of millions, maybe less

Annual GA trips:  10's of thousands

Guess which one leads the pack in fatalities/100 million hours [the NTSB standard unit of comparison]?

I will grant you that any aircraft accident, no matter how minor, gets far too much publicity with nonsense quotes like "an airplane crash without injuries is a miracle," while the only auto accidents that make the news are the really large or especially gruesome ones simply because there's not enough time or paper to record and distribute them all, even in small towns. Car wrecks and deaths are simply too commonplace for notice, but how many accidents were there at your local airport this year? There are 4 airports in my local area; 2009 = 2 fatals; 2010 = none, I think; 2011 = 3 non-fatals and counting. There were >3 car wrecks in town last week, I'm sure.

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