Jack Roush Crashes Plane in WI

[Ron61]

He is very fortunate. He almost drowned in his first crash when his plane hit some power lines and went down in water. I believe it was a plumber, ( not sure ), who dove in and got him out of the plane and saved his life. Maybe at his age and with two crashes now he should consider doing less flying on his own.

Ron

[mpanten]

Originally Posted by Ron61

He is very fortunate. He almost drowned in his first crash when his plane hit some power lines and went down in water. I believe it was a plumber, ( not sure ), who dove in and got him out of the plane and saved his life. Maybe at his age and with two crashes now he should consider doing less flying on his own.

Ron

He was more fortunate than that, a rescue swimmer happened to be Jogging by wittnessed the crash and was able to save him, You average person would most likely not have been able to save him the first time. Talk about pushig it. Jack, first class commercial is not "that" bad

[Don]

The 2002 crash:

" ...... after crashing an experimental aircraft near Troy, Ala., "

"Hicks saw the accident, and without hesitation manned his boat and paddled out to Roush's upside down plane. He dove in, through a layer of jet fuel. On his third dive, he found the cockpit, snapped it open, removed Roush from a harness, pulled him to the surface, revived him, then performed live saving CPR -- all without stable footing. He couldn't touch bottom. "

"He was trained to go down and get pilots out of airplanes," said Roush, obviously choking back tears. "Larry Hicks. How can that be? He tells his wife he loves her, then said he was going to do whatever he can. He jumps in the water with this fool that's just crashed his airplane upside down in eight feet of water. "


http://www.nascar.com/2002/news/head...ate/index.html


Prior to the accident a few weeks ago, was mentioned the flight patterns at the event are extremely busy and the accident rate is " higher " than expected. On one of the runways, there are three landings taking place at one time

[Trueoo7]

Originally Posted by Don

The 2002 crash:

" ...... after crashing an experimental aircraft near Troy, Ala., "

"Hicks saw the accident, and without hesitation manned his boat and paddled out to Roush's upside down plane. He dove in, through a layer of jet fuel. On his third dive, he found the cockpit, snapped it open, removed Roush from a harness, pulled him to the surface, revived him, then performed live saving CPR -- all without stable footing. He couldn't touch bottom. "

"He was trained to go down and get pilots out of airplanes," said Roush, obviously choking back tears. "Larry Hicks. How can that be? He tells his wife he loves her, then said he was going to do whatever he can. He jumps in the water with this fool that's just crashed his airplane upside down in eight feet of water. "


http://www.nascar.com/2002/news/head...ate/index.html


Prior to the accident a few weeks ago, was mentioned the flight patterns at the event are extremely busy and the accident rate is " higher " than expected. On one of the runways, there are three landings taking place at one time

I would imagine this guy drives around with ROUSH engines in his daily driver, and will for life, compliments of Jack.