DALLAS – A plane registered to a Waukesha company landed on top of another plane at an airport in Texas. The pictures are amazing. It happened at Northwest Regional Airport near Dallas Thursday afternoon. The red plane was taxiing into position for takeoff. That airport has only one runway. The white plane was coming in for a landing and landed right on top of it. Believe it or not, everyone walked away from the crash landing and everyone’s okay. The white plane is registered to a Waukesha company, RTJE Bach Enterprises. It was making a quick flight from Abilene, Texas when this accident happened.
This is no laughing matter. Only a couple people were intelligent enough to mention the danger of the high wing-low wing problem with visibility at uncontrolled airports. My brother and two others died from that same type of situation almost exactly one year ago. There are way too many accidents occurring because of uncontrolled airspace at smaller airports. THIS is the problem that needs to be addressed!
So looks like pilot landing didn’t here the take off clearance of the red one. ( if there were any) Or Pilot taking off didn’t here the landing clearance of the white one ( if there were any) or tower gave both the clearance. But should off only taken one of the three to realize something wrong is happening. If it was an uncontrolled airport, then its pilot error by not reporting position or not listening others report. almost had a mid air collision myself in uncontrolled airspace cause of a pilot NOT reporting position and intention. Pilots, we are suppose to be professional!
Its a PA-28 and an old Stinson. Regardless of vision, both should have had a vigilant ear on the radio, and announced their intentions on the correct frequency clearly.