Beech 35 ends up in grave yard at Medicine Hat

[ramjet555]

64 Year old in a Beech 35 ended up in a graveyard tonight with only scratches.


[font=helvetica][color=rgb(29, 33, 41)][size=14px]UPDATE: Medicine Hat Airport Tower received a mayday call from an inbound aircraft shortly before 8 PM this evening. Medicine Hat Police located a Beech Craft Sierra 35 plane that had crashed into the Hillside Cemetery. The pilot was the lone occupant of the aircraft. The 64 year old pilot and Medicine Hat resident was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.[/size][/color][/font]
[font=helvetica][color=rgb(29, 33, 41)][size=14px]Medicine Hat Police and Fire department are on scene at Hillside cemetery where a plane went down. Pilot has been taken to hospital. We'll have more details as they become available.[/size][/color]


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[Colonel]

I remember a 150 crashing into a graveyard
in Newfoundland a few years back. 

Even though there were only two people on
board, rescue workers recovered hundreds of
bodies as the volunteer fire department
operation continued on through the night.

[ramjet555]

For removal, the firewall was cut, and firewall forward came back on one trailer, the wings and fuselage on another.
The two clean props and one bent at 90 degrees indicates that the engine was stopped
when it hit the ground.


From a take off on 03, and if it quit just after getting airborne, the grave yard is a better alternative
than the buildings directly ahead.


Makes you wonder how cities ever came to allow buildings on the take off path.

[Four Bars]

I have learned that investigators find their jobs a lot easier when the physical damage is as unfortunate as this yet there is no fire.
So maybe we will learn what caused this more quickly than usual.
I hope the gentleman all the best in his recovery.

[ramjet555]

With an accident like this with no deaths, TC are not interested. The Insurance company makes it all neat and tidy, noone gets any blame, the pilot gets another aircraft, and insurance persons devote large efforts to prevent the public from taking pictures.


The aircraft was did one circuit and for unknown reasons decided to do a go-around and had an engine failure
over the upwind portion of the runway.


As to how or why this accident happened, odds are we will never know which means most probably it won't be the last of this type of accident.