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It’s hard to tell but that looks like a Mooney tailon that plane under water in Tampa Bay today. News says no injuries… Thank God!

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I think there was two different ditchings in last few days. A Bonanza near Cedar key and this one in Tampa bay. I could be wrong as I don’t live in the Tampa area.


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Aerial images showed a single-engine plane submerged in the bay. The plane involved was a Mooney M20 that had taken off from Gainesville headed to Peter O. Knight, police spokesperson Sandra Bentil said.

Engine problems caused the crash, Bentil said. One occupant was rescued by seaplane and the other by Tampa police’s marine unit.


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Yeah I think in the last week or so that’s three ditchings in the area. A Mooney, Bonanza and a Cherokee 180


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1 hour ago, JWJR said:

Yeah I think in the last week or so that’s three ditchings in the area. A Mooney, Bonanza and a Cherokee 180


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Wow! What are the chances of 3 aircraft ditching in the same area in the space of about 1 week? Hopefully everyone survived.

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1 hour ago, Mark89114 said:

More airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

 

The reason for that is all the classified material on submarines.    The military is motivated to quickly recover the ones that wind up there.

;)

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1 hour ago, EricJ said:

The reason for that is all the classified material on submarines.    The military is motivated to quickly recover the ones that wind up there.

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I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to get that :D

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2 hours ago, Mark89114 said:

More airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.

 

One thing that all fliers can say, that no sailors can say:  we haven't left one up there yet!

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20 hours ago, Mooney in Oz said:

Wow! What are the chances of 3 aircraft ditching in the same area in the space of about 1 week? Hopefully everyone survived.

MacDill used to be a B29 base. The slogan was “one a day in Tampa Bay”

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2 hours ago, FloridaMan said:

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That's what happens when you don't set the parking brake when backing the boat trailer in.

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You know. We’ve had 5 planes go down in the area in like a week. All engine trouble. Nobody got injured. I’m wondering if there’s bad gas here somewhere. 

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44 minutes ago, kortopates said:

I wonder what the pilot was referring too when he says his Mooney was "over heating"?

If it was jet-A contamination, CHTs would skyrocket. 

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