Force landed in a field.
Bountiful Flight LLC
https://registry.faa.gov/N134PS
Date: 08-APR-19
Time: 20:00:00Z
Regis#: N134PS
Aircraft Make: DIAMOND
Aircraft Model: D40
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: INSTRUCTION
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
Operation: 91
City: BOUNTIFUL
State: UTAH
WEST BOUNTIFUL, Utah — Two people escaped injury after the plane they were in landed in a field shortly after taking off from Skypark Airport Monday afternoon.
Emergency crews were dispatched to a report of a hard landing in a field near 400 N. Legacy Parkway about 2 p.m., according to Davis County Sheriff's Lt. Jason Boydston
The Diamond DA40 Diamond Star was performing touch and goes at the airport when it lost engine power and landed in a field in West Bountiful, said Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
A Utah Department of Transportation traffic camera showed the plane landed next to a fence that separates the field with the Legacy Parkway Trail, which runs adjacent to Legacy Parkway.
Boydston said there were no injuries or fuel leaks.
"It looks like they were pretty lucky to have this field here to land in," he said.
Kenitzer said the FAA will investigate the crash.
One northbound lane of Legacy Parkway was closed for several hours while crews responded to the scene. It reopened after 5 p.m.
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 134PS Make/Model: DA40 Description: DA-40
Date: 12/25/2011 Time: 0410
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: Minor Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Minor
LOCATION
City: SANTA ANA State: CA Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT ENCOUNTERED TURBULENCE, AND 1 PERSON ON BOARD SUSTAINED MINOR
INJURIES, DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT IS MINOR, LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT, SANTA ANA,
CA
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 1 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase: Unknown Operation: OTHER
FAA FSDO: LONG BEACH, CA (WP05) Entry date: 12/27/2011
Diamond DA40, N134PS - March 2010:
March 13, 2010
Diamond DA40, N134PS
Crystal Beach
Crystal Beach
March 13, 2010
Diamond DA40, N134PS
Crystal Beach
Crystal Beach
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Pilot may be in hot water after witnesses say low-flying plane buzzed beach
by Jeremy Desel / 11 News
khou.com
Posted on March 16, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Updated Wednesday, Jun 23 at 2:39 PM
HOUSTON—On a sunny Saturday on the beach, you might expect a crowd, but you don't expect a close encounter with an airborne plane.
But that's exactly what happened to a group of people on Crystal Beach.
Eric Nunez said he was getting ready to take a picture when he spotted the plane.
“I looked to my right and I just see this plane coming nose first," Nunez said.
“It just happened in a split second,” Jonathan Sonier, who was just a few feet away from Nunez at the time, said.
Terry Rodery wasn’t sure what to think.
“I didn’t know if I was gonna die. Or others in our group were gonna’ die. At first I thought that he was going to crash or make an emergency landing. There was no room for him to do that,” Rodery said.
There wasn't any room, because the beach was filled with dozens of Jeeps gathered for a rally. There were -- literally -- hundreds of people.
“He actually went beside a couple of Jeeps with his wings I’d say less than 10 feet,” said Nunez. “It got my attention. Some people hit the ground. Nobody knew what to expect.”
“I didn’t know if I should dive for cover or what exactly what he was doing,” another witness said.
People dove for cover, but some think the pilot may be looking for cover now.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it's investigating the incident after receiving a number of complaints, including one from the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office.
It is a federal violation to operate a plane lower than 1,000 feet in a populated area.
“Everything takes a split-second to go bad. Thank God it didn’t,” Sonier said.
11 News tracked the plane to Beaumont.
According to FAA records, N134PS is a Diamond Aircraft DA-40 that operates out of KUSA Aviation.
It is a plane that is available for flight training.
KUSA says the plane “was not under our operational control Saturday,” but it was flown three times.
At least one of those times, it was flown by the plane’s owner, Bryan Kirbow of Beaumont.
Sources said that’s who FAA investigators think was flying the plane over the beach.
We showed a photo of the plane posted on KUSA’s Web site to the witnesses.
They said they have no doubt it's the plane that buzzed them.
All mentions of the plane have since been removed from the KUSA Aviation Web site.
11 News tried to reach Kirbow and had no success. The FAA punishment for something like this can be harsh. Pilots can lose their licenses.
