Fake?

[gray_marian]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XRIzE_xMqMI

[John Arton]

Could be Harrison Ford piloting the plane when he landed on a golf course recently after suffering engine failure shortly after take off!!
rgds
JA

[happy daze john in oz]

That's it, not going to take up golf now, too bloody dangerous. The ball could have hit the guy in the golf buggy.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Shoot ! Was not expecting that. K

[John Albert Evans]

Marion,
I cann't quite remember the date but in the late 1970's I was on holiday at a place called Trail. BC. staying with my brother in law and family. At that time I used to fly and hired a Piper Cherokee P38 single winged plane at Castlegar Airport BC. The owner accompanied me and we flew around and he suggested something that a lot of people had never done before and that was to land and take off on a golf course. This was a place called Salmo which boasted of a Golfport which is a golf course and airport combined,the gentleman told he it was only one of three in the North American continent it was only a few miles away so off we went, we we arrived I had to fly around the fairway a couple of times and waggle my wings to inform the golf players that I wanted to land, which I did, I landed on the main fairway, turned around at the end and took off again. It was a long time ago now and I dont know if it is still a 'Golfport'....salmo.jpg

John

[Keith Tindell]

Hi, John, friend and old shipmate of mine lives in Ymir, and when i visited a few years ago we flew back from Castlegar to Vancouver (not me at the helm i hasten to add) and i take my hat off to you, thats one scary takeoff KT

[John Albert Evans]

Keith, flying into Castlegar does give you a bit of a twitch especially when you look to the left and see the remains of that plane that crashed into the mountain. They might/should have moved it by now though.

John