Talkeetna Air Taxi Cessna 185 Skywagon N185FK
HEADLINES (discontinued) The good ones are the ones you walk away from
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Operator: Talkeetna Air Taxi - N185FK
Aircraft: Cessna - 185 Skywagon
Airport: USA - Alaska - Off Airport - Alaska
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2013-3-8 by JPC van Heijst [Contact]
Camera setting: NIKON D200, 1/320s, f/9.0 at 17mm ISO 100
Photographer's remark
(10.3.2013, 09:27 CET)
After a spectacular flight through the mountains and the South base of Mount McKinley, the pilot decided to make a landing on one of the glaciers/lakes.
The landing was executed soft and uneventful until we reached a totally unexpected and treachery soft spot in the snow that was hidden by a few centimeters of fresh snow. In just mere moments the right ski broke off, the aircraft flipped upside down violently and the world was upside down with all kinds of papers, headsets, cameras and all sorts of unidentified stuff flying around. Getting out was not that easy, but fortunately nobody got hurt except a few bruises. After 1,5 hours waiting in the middle of a cold but a eerie silent glacier, we were spotted by another aircraft and in the end picked up.
1 Wallace Shackleton
(10 March 2013 - 10:35 CET)
I am grateful that you walked away from this one.
2 Tamas Kolos-Lakatos
(10 March 2013 - 16:07 CET)
Glad to hear that all of you are safe. What an amazing story, thanks for sharing!
3 Toshihiko Takamizawa
(10 March 2013 - 18:01 CET)
Lucky man! Good to hear that things have rolled out to fortune side.
4 Maarten-sr
(10 March 2013 - 19:29 CET)
Lucky you Pieter
5 Angelo Bufalino
(10 March 2013 - 23:02 CET)
Very glad you are ok brother.
6 Renato Serra Fonseca
(15 March 2013 - 01:47 CET)
Glad you made it out of it unharmed.
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