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Title: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: woohookitty on May 08, 2015, 03:14:25 PM
On May 8th, there was a flyover celebrating VE Day in Washington DC. Reagan National Airport was closed to all other traffic from 12 pm to 1 pm EST. Just past the middle of the celebration, a Grumman TBF Avenger had to break formation and make an emergency landing. It's being reported as hydraulic issues, but the pilot reported a fire. Below is a story with video showing the plane breaking formation. It closed the runway for a while as the plane had to be pushed off the runway.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/world-war-ii-era-plane-makes-emergency-landing/story?id=30908490

On the airshow itself: http://wtop.com/dc/2015/05/wwii-warbirds-to-rumble-over-national-mall-friday/

This is my first time doing this, so if someone else wants to take a whack at it, I got the file via the KDCA tower feed.

KDCA-Twr-May-08-2015-1630Z.mp3
Title: Re: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: semperflyer797 on May 08, 2015, 04:24:18 PM
dang that sucks for them.  glad they made it back safe and sound.  I wonder how far away from the airport they were when they broke formation.  good job on the clip
Title: Re: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: srepetsk on May 08, 2015, 06:04:43 PM
From the video above, it looks like he was just crossing the Potomac River at/around Roosevelt or Memorial bridge (not sure, given the angle), so he would only have been a couple miles upstream of DCA at most.  Nearly a perfect landing, if he had been planning on landing there in the first place ;)
Title: Re: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: Gstrawley on May 08, 2015, 07:38:53 PM
Thanks for the clip.

Now take all that excitement and turmoil, multiply it by 100, and maybe -- just maybe -- you'll have a sense of what the original pilots went through on a typical mission. Think about that this Memorial Day weekend.
Title: Re: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: blaze on May 08, 2015, 09:40:24 PM
I was on the mall watching the entire fly over, it was incredible.  I wondered what was happening. With the Grumman.The plane was just past Lincoln Memorial when it broke formation, about half way to Washington Memorial if I recall correctly.
Title: Re: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: Fryy/Avocadoflight on May 23, 2015, 03:43:01 AM
Cockpit footage of the incident with comms. Jeeez..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=153&v=HkvcwXqBJDQ
Title: Re: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: VASAviation on June 02, 2015, 04:17:21 PM
Could anyone please tell me what their callsign was?

Maybe LADY 3  :?
Title: Re: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: Fryy/Avocadoflight on June 10, 2015, 02:05:10 PM
Sounds like LADY to me
Title: Re: VE celebration fly over emergency landing at KDCA
Post by: VASAviation on June 10, 2015, 02:12:02 PM
I was told it was LEYTE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf