{"id":1734,"date":"2010-04-20T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2010-11-23T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T01:26:43","slug":"april-20-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Bob has mishap in his Piper Cub April 20, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, Bob did have a little airplane crash in his J3 Piper Cub. We took a trip to the hospital (Bob in an ambulance) to make sure all was OK. After about 4 hours and a CT scan they pronounced him fine. A couple of scratches. After seeing <\/span>the airplane, I was in awe of his heavenly (or something) protection. With few options he managed to land\/crash in a little park area, avoiding houses and people, but there were trees that caught the wings. Here is the photo I took of the place where the plane came to an abrupt stop after spinning around.<\/span><\/h1>\n


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phone photo of crash site in White Bear Lake Township<\/p><\/div>\n


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I was there right away (same time as the first emergency vehicle, the fire chief) since I had dropped him off and was going to meet him in Lake Elmo where he was intending to take the plane. He called me on my cell. So I found out about the emergency landing\/crash landing at the same time I knew he was OK. Thank heavens again.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

FAA investigation confirmed his suspicion that there was water in the gas line. A common problem, but one that is usually corrected by the preflight operations, but not this time for some reason.
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Today, May 3, he is taking the wings apart in his shop and contemplating restoring the plane. A labor of love! I have to say I am impressed with his skill as a pilot (he got some kudos from the emergency people), and his vast knowledge of airplanes — his understanding and capability of performing the restoration. <\/strong>
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Yup, Bob did have a little airplane crash in his J3 Piper Cub. We took a trip to the hospital (Bob in an ambulance) to make sure all was OK. After about 4 hours and a CT scan they pronounced him fine. A couple of scratches. After seeing the airplane, I was in awe of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}