In case you missed the Eagle article, March 19
Plane in pasture..Snippet from the article, don't want to violate copyright rules...
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Since January, Borrel said representatives from his insurance company, who did not respond to The Eagle as of press time, have tried to access and retrieve the plane. Borrel said their requests have been denied or not responded to.
"It's not that they haven't tried, because my understanding is that they've tried pretty regularly," Borrel said.
A Bryan Business Council statement said neither Borrel nor his insurance company contacted the council or the company leasing the property following the emergency landing, and adds once the business council was made aware of a social media debate about the plane's retrieval, the council contacted Borrel's insurance company and requested the plane's removal no later than Thursday. However, the plane wasn't retrieved.
Borrel said he wasn't aware until March 10 that Gutierrez isn't the owner of the land where his plane landed.
Borrel's attorney, Don Swaim of Cunningham Swaim LLP, did not provide additional comment as to when Borrel's representatives were put in contact with the Bryan Business Council, or why it has taken so long for the plane to be removed.
Borrel said the FAA wants to look at his airplane to find out what happened to the engine, but it's still in the field. Removing the plane is not a simple procedure, either, Borrel said; permits must be obtained, a moving company must be scheduled and the wings must be removed and put on flatbed trucks.
"It's not as simple as going and picking up a car and taking it to a shop," Borrel said. "It's a little more complex than that."
Clifford Dorn, who runs Rafter D Genetics LLC, a private cattle company specializing in artificial insemination and embryo harvesting, currently leases the pasture where Borrel's plane landed. He said no one representing Borrel had contacted him or Rafter D since the emergency landing, about getting access to the property to retrieve the plane.
In April 2022, the Bryan Business Council agreed to a grazing lease that includes the pasture where the plane landed to Rafter D. Gutierrez is a client of Rafter D and had cattle on the property for artificial insemination and embryo harvesting at the time of the emergency landing, according to a BBC statement.
The Bryan Business Council statement said the council does not have a contract with Gutierrez, nor was the council aware that Gutierrez was a client of Rafter D.
Dorn told The Eagle that Gutierrez has been a longtime client of his, and their project to send embryos to Brazil had been underway for more than a year. Dorn said Gutierrez's cattle were synchronized for the breeding program. When the plane made its emergency landing, Dorn said the cattle had to be rounded up into a small, wooden pen on the property's fence line near Jones Road because FAA officials didn't want the cattle near the plane.
Dorn said the cattle were kept in the pen "for an extended period of time" and noted a neighbor's bull broke in and "messed up the whole program." Dorn did not elaborate. It's uncertain how long Gutierrez's cattle were in the pen. As a result, the contract was canceled. Both Borrel and Dorn said fences around the property were not damaged during the plane's emergency landing.
"If they would've picked up the plane right away, within the first week or two, there wouldn't have been any problems out there at all," Dorn said. "If the cows would've been free in the pasture, none of this would've happened. If we could've continued with our program, it wouldn't have happened. There wouldn't have been any issues."
), but I know insurance companies can be tough to deal with. So maybe Mr. Pilot has multiple fronts he's fighting on. It would make sense to me that if all of the proper stuff was in place the insurance company would want that aircraft removed ASAP to avoid storage or lien claims. The fact that "apparently" the insurance company is not too concerned with their insured's plane sitting in a pasture in Bryan TX seems odd to me. 