ElderlyMan Survives Olive Branch Plane Crash

• Small craft crashes during Olive Branch Airport
• Pilot is ok
• Wind might have caused a pile-up landing

april.thompson@wreg.com

(Olive Branch, MS 10/17/2009) – The throng collected to debate as good as take rides upon a World War II B-17 bomber, though down a runway it was a not as big craft which had people talking.

The disfigured propellers have been a only a spirit of what happened.

Charles Welshans saw a craft coming a Olive Branch Airport.

“It only had done a alighting all of a remarkable it went up in a air, slamming behind in to a belligerent about 3 times. From what you could tell, a front rigging collapsed or pennyless off.” says Charles.

The 71-year-old commander from Houston assumingly came in to a little clever winds as he attempted to land. The Champion 400 aircraft bounced to a ground, abrasive a propeller blades as good as ripping off a front wheel.

Charles, a former Marine Search as good as Rescue Crewman, ran to help.

“There was nobody there solely for a commander who was inside. He told me he was all right. But you still checked him as tighten as you could.” he says.

The 71 year aged commander was station nearby a craft after a crash.

Many find it tough to hold he is ok.

“The aircraft substantially went up about 35 feet in a air, slammed behind in to a ground. It contingency have been a really good written aircraft. That aircraft saved his life.” says Charles.

Meanwhile a people receiving moody tours upon a B-17 couldn’t land since of a puncture below.

“So they shut off a runway as good as a airfield was closed. So you went to a Memphis International as good as landed as good as outlayed a couple of mins there.” says Dan Bowlin, a B-17 Pilot.

They’re only happy a pilot’s ok.

“You do not come to an airshow really mostly as good as design to see pile-up similar to that.” says Charles.

We have been told a craft had thousands of dollars value of damage.

The B-17 tours go on Sunday during a Olive Branch Airport.