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FresnoBee.com: Local: Plane hits truck on Herndon Avenue in Fresno

Check out this story from the Fresno Bee (FAT)
Seems this poor pilot's sight picture might need adjusting.:(
If he *thought* he was on glideslope and somehow hit a furniture truck on the road and then came to a stop a few hundred of feet later and still came to rest well before the displaced threshold - well.....whoops!
Any pilots around here that have flown out of this local Fresno airport that can speak to any landing aides in place?

Glad he and the truck crew are OK though.

USMCFLYR

Oooops. Maybe he was aiming for the beginning of the pavement and not the displaced threshold.

obstacle obstacle...... OBSTACLE OBSTACLE .... CRASH!

there but for the grace of ... go I

If you haven't made such a mistake, count yourself lucky. Humans make human mistakes. I have (I was just lucky I didn't bend a plane). I only hope next time I will have someone in the other seat to catch my error.

Before you judge, remember you may make such a mistake one day.

Reminds me of the fence just shy of the main runway at SEE.

You can see where it is curled over. At least the students are on centerline.

Weird irony, I flew a tomahawk for the first time yesterday. Big oops, even though it's a 2900' strip, shouldn't have been an issue for a small plane like that, but it's easy to become fixated on certain things and then you just manuever yourself to them.

[quote=FlyJSH;478739]there but for the grace of ... go I

If you are inferring that I judge then I'm sorry.
If judging means looking at what I see in the picture and wonder about what sight picture that young man was seeing when he thought he was on glideslope and managed to hit a truck on the road....well....then I guess I did. that must be the safety officer coming out in me because that is exactly what I would do. I sit and wonder what went wrong and then I would discuss it with my peers while sitting around the ready room and then hopefully it would stick in someone's head during the next approach.

Not that I will probably ever see the final NTSB investigation on this mishap but if this had been from my community it would eventually be presented to the command and used as a learning tool.

USMCFLYR