[BEKREUNSEPBERw]

Parc Avenue is wide enough for a small plane.

Really, if I were landing a plane, that might be my first and only choice of streets to land on.

[Enfonebew]

Well, it worked, so, yeah?

Not like he did it during rush hour.

[prmwsinfo]

Afternoonish.

Also, its one of the few places in the city where he could land with out a building on 1 side of him.

[shenacatro]

Oh! It was near Mont-Royal, in front of the parc Jadmance.

Now I understand. I thought it was north of Mont-Royal street.

Spec.

[obegeLype]

I drive on that section of road every time I'm in Montreal...

[b3JOkwXL]

...where hundreds of Montrealers traditionally gather on Sundays to play bongos... If I needed further evidence that Canadiens are strange, there it is.

[Janarealiti]

Originally posted by Stuie


If I needed further evidence that Canadiens are strange, there it is. TAM TAM!!!!!

[Ervins Dervish]

Everybody smokes weed also while playing TAM TAMs



Spec.

[duceswild]

DAMN! I thought I'd be going to the TAM TAM that afternoon, but ended up staying at home, smoking weed with my brother. Would have been nice to see that.

[Mearticbaibre]

several years back, my unlce had to explain to his insurance agent how a plane landed on his car in the drive way

pictures no longer exist....darn

[Dyerryjex]

I think there's an epidemic of street landings in Quebec, or a problem with all our cesnas.

Six hurt as plane crashes on street in St. Hubert


MAX HARROLD and RENE BRUEMMER, The Gazette
Published: Wednesday, September 13, 2006

For the second time in three days, a small single-engine plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a city street in the Montreal region.

Six people - two in the plane and four in automobiles - escaped with minor injuries yesterday after the four-seater Piper Cherokee aircraft attempted to land on Kimber Blvd. in South Shore St. Hubert in an industrial park near the local airport.

Bill Mack was driving on Kimber just before 4 p.m. when he saw the plane dip under a phone wire and head for his car.

Mack was taking his 82-year-old mother home from a hospital.

"I thought, 'Holy mackerel, it's a plane - it's going to hit us,' " Mack, 40, said. "We ducked beneath the windshield right before the wing ripped off my side-view mirror and took out all the windows on the driver's side."

Mack and his mother were a little shaken up but unharmed.

After striking his vehicle, the plane hit three other cars and flipped over, Mack said.

Mack and another witness, Max Lubin, rushed to the plane.

"The pilot's door was jammed shut," said Lubin, 21, who works as a mechanic at OK Tire Centre on Kimber. "I could see the pilot was moving and he was OK. Gas was raining out of the plane. We went to the other side and opened the door and helped the lady out."

Lubin helped the pilot and the woman passenger, who appeared to be in their 40s, to grass along the road. Longueuil police Constable Pierre Quintal said the pilot and his passenger - a married couple, according to witnesses - were taken to a hospital with neck and back injuries.

Four passengers in the cars were also treated for minor injuries. The driver of a school bus also had to be treated for shock.

The plane had taken off from St. Hubert Airport but airport officials could not say exactly when.

Soon after the crash, the plane lay sprawled in a sea of white foam sprayed by firefighters to prevent fire from breaking out.

There were conflicting reports about whether the plane engine was functioning before the crash.

"I heard the motor and I saw the propeller turning," Mack said. But Lubin said the plane was silent.

"Unfortunately, the pilot never made an emergency distress call to describe his problem," said Michel Beaudoin, head of operations at St. Hubert Airport. "He only radioed in at the last moment to tell us he was landing on the street."

Quintal said officials with the federal Transportation Safety Board were at the scene last night. A crane lifted the wreck onto a flatbed truck just after 9.

On Sunday, a Cessna Skyhawk with three people aboard made an emergency landing on Park Ave. just south of Mount Royal Ave. after its engine died .

The plane emerged with just a dented wing. No one was injured.

Safety board officials said that plane, which also took off from St. Hubert, might have had water condensed in its fuel tank.

Beaudoin said there is no chance the problem lies with a contaminated or leaking fuel tank at the airstrip.

"Those tanks are tested every day. The regulations are very, very strict - can you imagine if there was a problem with a major airliner?" I have friends on Kimber street, so I go there often enough. That is definately not a street wide enough for an airplane.

[favwebbb]

This thread should be named "The official plane crashed in Quebec thread"

[tinamasak]

I think it would be easier to just change all the traffic lights in town, and add a light for airplanes.

[giturbewan]

During the Cold War, the US gov't used to spec freeways for landing our largest bombers. Not sure if that requirement is still followed.

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