Jack Roush Hurt In Jet Crash At Oshkosh Air Venture

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On Tuesday afternoon, a loud bang was heard across Aeroshell Square as a Beechcraft Premier jet pancaked onto the runway and broke in half. No flames or smoke were seen, and rescue crews are were on the scene at about 7 p.m. The tail number shows that the aircraft is registered to Roush Racing. EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski told AVweb that early unconfirmed reports he had heard were that two were people were on board and both were out and standing. A pilot who witnessed the crash told AVweb that the jet appeared to be coming in to land on Runway 18, then seemed to be initiating a go-around when one wing dropped, and the jet fell toward the ground. More details will be posted as soon as they are available.

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Jack must have nine lives. How many people are in 2 plan crashes...let alone living through them

MILWAUKEE — NASCAR team owner Jack Roush of Northville was injured, but walked away from a plane crash in Wisconsin, Roush Fenway Racing president Geoff Smith tells The Associated Press.

“There are injuries. Possible surgery,” Smith said in a text message to AP. “But he walked out of the plane.”


Roush, an aviation buff, was expected to attend the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., this week. The EAA was expected to post a statement on its website Tuesday night.


It is the second close call for Roush, who crashed a plane into a pond in Alabama in 2002 and was rescued by an ex-Marine who lived nearby
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EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wis. - (July 27, 2010) - At approximately 6:15 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, a Beechcraft Premier business jet registered to Roush Fenway Racing, LLC, was involved in a landing accident on Runway 18 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Winnebago County Sheriff's Department has confirmed the two occupants on board were Jack Roush of Northville, Mich., and Brenda Strickland of Plymouth, Mich., who each exited the aircraft following the accident. Both were transported to local hospitals, with Roush in serious but stable condition and Strickland with non-life threatening injuries
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PettyBlue said:
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On Tuesday afternoon, a loud bang was heard across Aeroshell Square as a Beechcraft Premier jet pancaked onto the runway and broke in half. No flames or smoke were seen, and rescue crews are were on the scene at about 7 p.m. The tail number shows that the aircraft is registered to Roush Racing. EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski told AVweb that early unconfirmed reports he had heard were that two were people were on board and both were out and standing. A pilot who witnessed the crash told AVweb that the jet appeared to be coming in to land on Runway 18, then seemed to be initiating a go-around when one wing dropped, and the jet fell toward the ground. More details will be posted as soon as they are available.

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Oh my!, is that Jack?......Hope he recovers quickly
 
Maybe Jack should stick to sitting up on top the Pit box instead of flying.
 
Judging from the photo it appears Jack may have forgot what that handle with the little wheel on it means. I see no evidence of the gear being down. Just a observation.
 
jack is a very lucky guy to survive 2 plane crashes. time to hire a pilot or stay on the ground jack. get well soon. :)
 
SST55 said:
Judging from the photo it appears Jack may have forgot what that handle with the little wheel on it means. I see no evidence of the gear being down. Just a observation.
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Really....you think the wheels would hold up with a hit like that???

On a side not, I'd hate to have his insurance bill
 
SST55 said:
Judging from the photo it appears Jack may have forgot what that handle with the little wheel on it means. I see no evidence of the gear being down. Just a observation.
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Actually, the reports say that he tried to abort the landing, and in doing so the plane stalled. It turned, and one of the wings clipped the runway. Thus bringing it down.

An impact like that would have crushed the landing gears.
 
Bucky Badger said:
Really....you think the wheels would hold up with a hit like that???

On a side not, I'd hate to have his insurance bill
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No Buck the 'wheels' wouldn't hold up. In a hard landing like that, evident by the fuselage breaking in half, there would be at a miminum distortion to the upper wing skin where the landing gear tried to blow through. I don't see any evidence of that. Do you?

But WTF do I know, USAF trained me as a Airframe mechanic and I spent 20 months in SEA retrieving/rebuilding crashed a/c. 8 months doing 'other' things.
Then upon discharge got my Airframe FAA certificate and worked for a major air carrier based out of Miami for 2 years.

But I guess your experience trumps mine,,,:sarcasm:

Foe, I have no idea of what actually happened. It's possible he missed a item on the checklist, was his passender a trained aviator?
I have many hours in a J-3 cub,150,152, 172 Cessna and a pre war Stearman bi-plane, very,very few hours in a low wing aircraft with retractable gear. No matter what aircraft the checklist is never ignored, no matter how good you think you are.
 
SST55 said:
No Buck the 'wheels' wouldn't hold up. In a hard landing like that, evident by the fuselage breaking in half, there would be at a miminum distortion to the upper wing skin where the landing gear tried to blow through. I don't see any evidence of that. Do you?

But WTF do I know, USAF trained me as a Airframe mechanic and I spent 20 months in SEA retrieving/rebuilding crashed a/c. 8 months doing 'other' things.
Then upon discharge got my Airframe FAA certificate and worked for a major air carrier based out of Miami for 2 years.

But I guess your experience trumps mine,,,:sarcasm:

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Well from what was posted about the aborted landing..You were incorrect sir
 
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We just heard, from an inside source, that his plane pancaked onto the runway, which was caused by turbulence of a jet that had just taken off. Jack may loose an eye and will need nose reconstruction.
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SST55 said:
But I guess your experience trumps mine,,,:sarcasm:
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No need to be sarcastic, SST. I for one didn't know about your airplane experience, and while your explanation is very plausible, it is also possible that he had retracted the landing gear to make another landing attempt. Hence the reason for the absence of your description of what would happen to the fuselage had the gear been down.
 
I'd say that this view proves pretty conclusively that the gear was down at impact-

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After listening to a recording of the radio transmissions between the control tower, Roush and a third plane in the local airspace it sounds like Jack had doubts if there would be proper clearance which may explain why he slowed his aircraft to the point of stalling.
 
PettyBlue said:
After listening to a recording of the radio transmissions between the control tower, Roush and a third plane in the local airspace it sounds like Jack had doubts if there would be proper clearance which may explain why he slowed his aircraft to the point of stalling.
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I went to EAA once...that place is out of control...I don't know how they keep thing as straight as they do.
 
The EAA Airventure was originally concieved as a gathering of homebuilts and other light aircraft. Add comaritavely "hot" aircraft like bizjets and warbirds to the mix and you have a traffic controller's nightmare.
 
PettyBlue said:
After listening to a recording of the radio transmissions between the control tower, Roush and a third plane in the local airspace it sounds like Jack had doubts if there would be proper clearance which may explain why he slowed his aircraft to the point of stalling.
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I just got a chance to hear that last night and it sure sounds like you are correct. Jack voiced his concern of the closing rate that he had on the plane landing in front of him to which the guy in the control tower seemed to indicate all was fine. Then someone else jumped on the channel that echoed Jack's concerns by telling him to fly around at the last second. I guess the FAA will figure it all out but obviously some mistakes were made.
 
Roush released from hospital

Jack Roush, co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing and chairman of ROUSH Enterprises, was released from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., yesterday. "I would like to thank everyone for the outpouring of support and concern I have received the past two weeks," Roush said. "Our teams and drivers have not missed a beat in my absence, and I am proud of the effort they have put forth. I look forward to rejoining them at the track soon." It has not yet been determined when Roush will return to the race track.
 
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Jack Roush, co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing and chairman of ROUSH Enterprises, was released from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., yesterday. "I would like to thank everyone for the outpouring of support and concern I have received the past two weeks," Roush said. "Our teams and drivers have not missed a beat in my absence, and I am proud of the effort they have put forth. I look forward to rejoining them at the track soon." It has not yet been determined when Roush will return to the race track.
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I'm sure the hospital is glad he's gone -- he probably gave them hell every single day (and probably ran up quite an impressive phone bill as well).
 
Roush returns to track bearing scars from crash

BROOKLYN, Mich. -- Jack Roush returned to the race track Friday, still bearing the scars of the July 27 plane crash that left the NASCAR team owner hospitalized for two weeks.

Roush said he fractured his back, broke his jaw and lost his left eye in the accident, which occurred as he was attempting to land his jet at a crowded airport in Oshkosh, Wis., for an appearance at a major air show. The two-time Cup champion underwent surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to treat facial injuries in the crash, but confirmed at Michigan International Raceway that the incident also cost him an eye.

"I've got a back brace on because I've got some trauma to my back, and I've got some nose packing in my nose, so I'm breathing through my mouth, and those are my two primary discomforts," Roush said. "Everything will come back but the left eye. I've lost the left eye. And because my vision before the problem was 20/15, corrected, and my right eye was my dominant eye, was my primary eye ... I'll still be able to see more than I should."

Full story here.....http://www.nascar.com/2010/news/hea...h.returns.track.michigan.eye.crash/index.html
 
Magnethead said:
So, is it safe to say, that the CoT is safer than an airplane?
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Hmmm, walking away from a crash from a jet sure isn't a given. Remember, if it wasn't for a very alert former Jarhead, Jack would even be around today and that wasn't even a jet. I'd say that Cot played absolutely no part in his survival. However, do we even hear about any improvement in aircraft safety? I think not.
 
Very glad to see Jack is ok. This statement is a bit scary though...

"I think it's very likely that I'll fly. I've got to get recovered. I have to go through my recovery. Wiley Post was a one-eyed pilot," he said, referring to the 1930s airman who lost his left eye in an oilfield accident and went on to become the first pilot to fly solo around the world. "There's no restriction -- maybe if you're an airline pilot. There's no reason I can't fly with one eye."
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Jack should quit while he is ahead.
 
Anybody got any one eyed jack jokes......:D
Sorry, couldn't help it....he needs to go RVing, with the camping world series....
MoMike
 
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