Growing up in Iowa, I had always heard that if you had engine failure in
the summertime, don't make a power off landing in a cornfield because the
corn is like hitting a brick wall. Seemed to make sense because I do recall a
lot of fatal aircraft accidents that occurred in cornfields.
Then I read this in a recent AOPA release:
_Pilot performs emergency landing in Mich. cornfield_
(http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/xTfMysrPqjcgbchUajazhUalClsF?format=standard)
Pilot Dan Kovaric, 28, performed an emergency landing in a Michigan
cornfield. The Cessna 150 single-engine plane lost power at 3,000 feet and
then
restarted at 500 feet before Kovaric landed in Livingston Township, Mich. "I
touched it down in the corn and tried to keep the nose up as long as I
could," said Kovaric, who was unhurt in the landing. _Gaylord Herald Times
(Mich.)_
(http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/xTfMysrPqjcgbchUajazhUalClsF?format=standard)
(8/24) (http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/xTfMysrPqjcgbeyAajazhUalLDHf)
(http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/xTfMysrPqjcgbeBoajazhUalXvTI)
(http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/xTfMysrPqjcgbfcsajazhUaleQfy)
(http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/xTfMysrPqjcgbffgajazhUalfAqR)
Anybody have any ideas of this? Maybe people used to stall about 100ft
above the cornfield and auger in.
Bart
