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OCEN99
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This morning the owner of Taste of Texas pulled off an emergency landing in the median of 59 like a boss.
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Pretty freakin cool. Glad he's safe.
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Glad it wasn't another hendee tragedy
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He has a broken vertebrae but I hear he'll be ok. A friend of mine was on that plane.
The Original AG 76
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It was an absolute AMAZING piece of piloting by Edd. It appears that they may have put Jet-A instead of Avgas into the plane. Edd lost his port engine at only 2100' then lost his starboard at 1700'. For many many pilots loosing an engine so soon during the take off would have been fatal but Edd managed to control the plane while loosing BOTH engines. He "popped" out of the clouds at about 1000' and, WITH GODS HELP, happened to be directly over US 59. He decided to attempt to land on 59 and had to , at the last minute, pull up to miss a car. Once he touched down on the highway the plane skidded into the median. The mud snapped the landing gear and stopped the plane in the mud just before it would have veered into the oncoming lane. The passengers all were fine but ,as stated above, Edd did suffer a back injury. He should be fine.
Most don't have any idea about the many special things that Edd has done for our community. Few know that it was Edd who flew, either in his plane or by paying for commercial, the young lady injured at the Boston bombing and her family back and forth from Boston to Houston. He help her in many ways during her recovery and he even officiated at her recent wedding.
The Hendees are special people who also happen to cook a fine steak. I hope that everyone keeps him and Nina in their prayers as Edd recovers from a very painful and possibly debilitating injury.
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Thread derail, but Rebecca is BSC. She loved the limelight and took the pub and money and ran with it.
And the marriage was a joke.

Edd is a great guy though. Did a ton for a good friend, Casey Owens, RIP.
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Edd is a great guy though. Did a ton for a good friend, Casey Owens, RIP.
BarryProfit
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Great job!

Steaks are still meh tho.
Al Bula
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Thread derail, but Rebecca is BSC. She loved the limelight and took the pub and money and ran with it.
And the marriage was a joke.
go on
The Original AG 76
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Here is a description of the crash as written by a family member and posted on FB:
Edd has a large Cessna twin-engined airplane with turbo-chargers for extra power and high altitude flying. He was on a business flight, coming home from Kansas City to Houston. He crossed the Texas state line as thunderstorms were rolling across Texas. Big nasty thunderstorms. This is not what you think. Not Edd Hendee. He reads the radar, turns to his passengers and says, "Sorry boys, we are setting down." Careful and thoughtful, procedures well within the safety zone. So they land in a small town in Texas, tie down the big twin engine and head for a motel. And he has the tanks topped off for the next day's flight in case they need to maneuver around more storms. They sleep the night, and have a breakfast. There are two others, a long time friend, and a representative of a vendor where Edd buys the main products for his business. In the right seat , or co-pilot's position is his friend. But before Edd starts the airplane he does a thorough preflight. I have been with him and it is not routine, he pays attention to every detail. It is his job when he is flying. He drains some gasoline from the tanks, check for water, there is none. He walks around the airplane feeling the surfaces, checks the tires, pulls the blocks from the tires, looks for leaks that may have happened during the night and more. Here is what we think we can reconstruct from the flight...About 8:30 Edd starts up the twin turbo charged engines, goes through his preflight checklist (he has flown for years and still goes through a written check list) and every thing checks. Magnetos, trim, flaps, all perfect. They get clearance to roll and lift off for Houston. The weather looks good and Edd double checks his radar on the plane. At about 700 feet above the ground they hit a layer of cloud that is about 800 feet thick. They break out at 1500 feet into the clear just as Edd detects something isn't right. The amount of pressure his engines should be taking in on intake is light and the temperature of his exhaust is too low. Suddenly one engine begins to choke. Fair enough, this happens, he trims up and does what he needs to do if he loses that engine. He has trained for this for years, over and over. The engine dies. It is woking no more.But the "good engine" is showing the same signs and a few seconds later it quits. He is at 2100 feet above the ground and now the airplane becomes a glider. It is a poor glider, it is more like a brick. Edd knows he has to keep his airspeed up so he can control the airplane.There is an old adage in flying, you give up altitude for speed. So he points the nose down to maintain around 95 miles per hour. In a few quick heartbeats, he hits that cloud layer at 1500 feet and he cannot see what is on the ground. He is far enough from the airport that there is no turning around. We heard from the tower that he declared an emergency and was very business like on the radio. That's Edd.At 700 feet he pops out of the cloud, he is losing about 700 feet per minute at that time and gets his first look at his options.Edd is in east Texas. It is loaded with piney woods, the exceptions are small or populated. In fact his chances for survival under any conditions are close to zero. Pilots do not lose two engines at 2000 feet and survive because there are so few options available. Probably most pilots with that little time to make decisions do not do well.Edd has at best a few seconds to choose a landing spot and then he has to get busy making preparations to bring the airplane to the spot and make it happen.Here is what Edd sees...When he sees the ground for the first time, he sees a four lane highway. Even better his airplane is lined up for the highway. No turns. It gets better.During rush hour, there is a long break in the traffic right where he will touch down. What doesn't realize is there are light poles every 300 yards or so.He drops his landing gear and does the very best he can to flare the airplane to slow his vertical drop before they hit. He misses the light poles, hits the highway and bounces crushing his left landing gear. They come down again, the right landing gear collapses and is torn away and lord knows what happens to the nose wheel. But it's gone. They slide down the highway into the median, and there hit wet soil which slows them down quickly.They come to a full stop with the airplane's wing tank barely over the side of the road of oncoming traffic. They are alive.Edd asks his passengers to clear the plane as he shuts down all of the electrical and takes care of the airplane. Finally Edd comes out, slowly, and limps over to the side of the highway and lies down. His back hurts.They are sniffing for fumes in case there is a ruptured tank looking for signs of a fire or explosion. They smell fumes alright, but it isn't gasoline. It smells like kerosene. This afternoon the FAA verified that the airport loaded the airplane with jet fuel (kerosene) instead of aviation gasoline which is very high octane gasoline. Kerosene will not run in an engine or engines like Edd has in that airplane. Edd's airplane cleared the fuel lines of gasoline and then the kerosene hit. Bad news and worse news. When they broke through, it was the hand of God. Edd was care flighted to Houston and is now in the hospital. He shattered a vertebrae into pieces, one of them floated into the spinal canal and had the spinal canal not been large, he would have been paralyzed from the waist down. As it is, they think his body will heal itself entirely in 90 days. The body will consume that piece in the spinal canal.The hand of God.
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It sounds like Edd will be calling the Christian trial lawyers.

http://www.simmonsandfletcher.com/
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That is one amazing story, thanks for sharing the details and facts that our local news crew will never be able to articulate. I would imagine he missed the kerosene smell when he sumped because it would have settled on top of the 100ll that was in the tank?
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holy crap that is a crazy story. Glad he made it through
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MAROON
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sounds like the Lufkin airport will be purchasing Edd a new plane and paying for a ton of medical bills.
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Edd sounds like a BAMF. Might have to go to Tot soon after reading that.
Biz Ag
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His grandson was my son's little league teammate two years ago.

Edd has done a lot for West U Little League.

Glad he's alright.
Al Bula
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That is a badass story. Appreciate you sharing, 76.
sts7049
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wow. incredible story. glad they were all OK.
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Edd has done a lot for West U Little League
a bright spot in those poor children's lives.
Diggity
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Hey, West U little league allows select poors from OTL.
MAROON
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Hey, West U little league allows select poors from OTL.
yes we do if you can play ball. We've got plenty of no playing talent ITL.
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Does anybody who flies their own plane die apart from it?
fire09
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Does anybody who flies their own plane die apart from it?


Not sure if serious.
94chem
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/small-plane-crashes-avoidable-pilot-training-ntsb/story?id=18760176

sort of serious. I'm sure you could name a dozen names, friends or famous people, just like I could.
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I didn't understand the wording of your question.
94chem
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97% of aviation fatalities - wow. Looked like pretty basic stuff in that video.
94chem
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It was a bit of a sarcastic remark, in the sense that you would have peace of mind in knowing how you will go - kind of like Moscow cabbies.
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Sunday I was driving up to Diboll to help with preparations for my grandma's funeral, and I saw the plane was parked over in the DPS weigh station south of town. This morning on the news I saw the plane had been transported up to Dallas for the NTSB investigation.
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Wow, he was pretty fortunate.

Just ate at TOT for the first and last time last week.
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Angelina County judge confirms an airport employee filled the plane with Jet-A instead of avgas.
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In addition, Suiter said the pilot, Edd Campbell Hendee, of Houston, signed the receipt that listed the fuel that was put in his plane, jet fuel.
Uh oh.
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