Pilot killed in fiery plane crash in shopping center parking lot in Plano, Texas
“The pilot unfortunately lost their life in the tragic accident,” police said in a statement on X. No one else was hurt in the crash in a busy area.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pl ... rcna126318
A pilot was killed after a small plane crashed into a shopping center parking lot at a Texas shopping center on Tuesday, authorities said.
Police in Plano, 20 miles north of Dallas, said the aircraft crashed directly outside a nail salon and Mama's Daughter's Diner, just before 6 p.m.
"The pilot unfortunately lost their life in the tragic accident," police said in a statement on X. The pilot was the only person on board and has not been named while their family is informed.
Remarkably, no one else was hurt and there were no reports of damage to buildings.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Travel Safety Board are investigating. The cause of the crash is currently unknown.
Footage shot by witnesses and shared on social media showed a large fire engulfing the plane.
NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported that in the moments before the crash, the pilot appeared to become disoriented, citing unnamed people who have reviewed materials connected to the flight.
"Thankfully the plane did not land on or collide with anything," said Daniel Daly from Plano Fire-Rescue in a news conference at the scene Tuesday. "However, the fire resulting from the crash did involve an unoccupied parked vehicle."
"The only thing we can say is that the FAA and NTSB are both en route to the scene and they will be handling all the investigation as the cause of the crash," he added
The crash happened less than half a mile from the single-runway Airpark-Dallas Airport, although it is not clear where the plane took off.
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Mooney M20 Down in Plano, TX. 1 Dead
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Wreckage appears to be here
https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2 ... ?entry=ttu
This is 100m before the Rwy 16 threshold, but offset by about 400m from the approach path.
Judging by the photos, the aircraft was on approach to Rwy 16.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2 ... ?entry=ttu
This is 100m before the Rwy 16 threshold, but offset by about 400m from the approach path.
Judging by the photos, the aircraft was on approach to Rwy 16.
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You could say he nailed the landing 
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Plane that crashed in Plano, killing pilot, was attempting a ‘go-around’ per FAA report
The plane is registered to Monroe McDonald in Arizona, but the victim has not been confirmed.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public- ... aa-report/
A small private plane crashed in Plano on Tuesday evening, killing the pilot, the only person in the plane, and setting a nearby car on fire. Authorities received reports of the crash around 6 p.m.
The pilot was attempting a go-around, an aborted landing attempt in which a plane on final approach instead flies back up, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s incident report, released Wednesday morning. Go-arounds can be requested by air traffic control or initiated by the pilot for a variety of reasons, including mechanical issues and runway obstructions.
Witnesses described hearing a loud boom and seeing the plane’s right wing dip before it crashed.
The plane crashed less than a mile from Air Park-Dallas Airport, a small airstrip in Addison Airport without an air traffic control tower. The surface of the airport’s short 3,080-foot runway is in poor condition, according to the FAA’s airport database.
The plane that crashed had tail number N1204X. According to Fight Radar 24, a live air traffic tracker available online, the plane had a scheduled flight out of the Addison Airport, about 4 miles south of the site of the crash, at 5:45 p.m.
The plane was a 1963 Mooney M20C, a four-seater, fixed-wing, single-engine plane. According to the FAA’s aircraft database, the plane is registered to Monroe McDonald at a P.O. box in Aguila, Ariz. The FAA has not identified who was piloting the plane at the time of the crash, but there is no airman registered with the FAA named Monroe McDonald, according to the FAA’s airmen registry.
According to a Nov. 14 article in The Wickenburg Sun, which covers Maricopa County including Aguila, Ariz., local Monroe McDonald is the previous recipient of the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, which honors individuals with over 50 years of safe piloting or aircraft operation experience.
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The plane is registered to Monroe McDonald in Arizona, but the victim has not been confirmed.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public- ... aa-report/
A small private plane crashed in Plano on Tuesday evening, killing the pilot, the only person in the plane, and setting a nearby car on fire. Authorities received reports of the crash around 6 p.m.
The pilot was attempting a go-around, an aborted landing attempt in which a plane on final approach instead flies back up, according to the Federal Aviation Administration’s incident report, released Wednesday morning. Go-arounds can be requested by air traffic control or initiated by the pilot for a variety of reasons, including mechanical issues and runway obstructions.
Witnesses described hearing a loud boom and seeing the plane’s right wing dip before it crashed.
The plane crashed less than a mile from Air Park-Dallas Airport, a small airstrip in Addison Airport without an air traffic control tower. The surface of the airport’s short 3,080-foot runway is in poor condition, according to the FAA’s airport database.
The plane that crashed had tail number N1204X. According to Fight Radar 24, a live air traffic tracker available online, the plane had a scheduled flight out of the Addison Airport, about 4 miles south of the site of the crash, at 5:45 p.m.
The plane was a 1963 Mooney M20C, a four-seater, fixed-wing, single-engine plane. According to the FAA’s aircraft database, the plane is registered to Monroe McDonald at a P.O. box in Aguila, Ariz. The FAA has not identified who was piloting the plane at the time of the crash, but there is no airman registered with the FAA named Monroe McDonald, according to the FAA’s airmen registry.
According to a Nov. 14 article in The Wickenburg Sun, which covers Maricopa County including Aguila, Ariz., local Monroe McDonald is the previous recipient of the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, which honors individuals with over 50 years of safe piloting or aircraft operation experience.
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So, it's half an hour after sunset.
Pilot starts a go-around from low altitude, lifts the nose, loses the horizon, doesn't switch immediately to instruments and then stalls it?
Lifting the nose too high after not checking the instruments was a favourite with my students for night go-arounds.
Pilot starts a go-around from low altitude, lifts the nose, loses the horizon, doesn't switch immediately to instruments and then stalls it?
Lifting the nose too high after not checking the instruments was a favourite with my students for night go-arounds.
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Arizona man killed after small plane crashes outside Texas shopping center
https://www.azfamily.com/2023/11/22/ari ... ng-center/
PLANO, TX (3TV/CBS 5) — An Arizona man is dead after a small plane crashed earlier this week in a Dallas suburb.
The crash happened shortly before 6 p.m. CST on Tuesday in the parking lot of a shopping center in Plano, Tex., just north of Air Park-Dallas Airport. CBS 11 reports the plane crashed right outside of Mama’s Daughters’ Diner, where it burst into flames.
Plano police confirmed the pilot was killed and that he was the only person on board the single-engine Mooney M20 aircraft. The Texas Department of Public Safety identified him as Elzie M. McDonald of Arizona, who was just days away from his 88th birthday. Online records show McDonald was a resident of Aguila, a small, unincorporated community in far northwest Maricopa County.
No one on the ground was injured. The crash, which is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
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https://www.azfamily.com/2023/11/22/ari ... ng-center/
PLANO, TX (3TV/CBS 5) — An Arizona man is dead after a small plane crashed earlier this week in a Dallas suburb.
The crash happened shortly before 6 p.m. CST on Tuesday in the parking lot of a shopping center in Plano, Tex., just north of Air Park-Dallas Airport. CBS 11 reports the plane crashed right outside of Mama’s Daughters’ Diner, where it burst into flames.
Plano police confirmed the pilot was killed and that he was the only person on board the single-engine Mooney M20 aircraft. The Texas Department of Public Safety identified him as Elzie M. McDonald of Arizona, who was just days away from his 88th birthday. Online records show McDonald was a resident of Aguila, a small, unincorporated community in far northwest Maricopa County.
No one on the ground was injured. The crash, which is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
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