Lake Erie incident- 7/1 Pilot Rescued

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This was pretty much a non-event...a single engine plane went down in a bay on Lake Erie. The pilot was rescued and is OK, thanks to...himself. :D


A pilot reportedly escaped serious injury when his small, single-engine plane crashed into Lake Erie today near the Toledo border.

Multiple fire departments were called to assist - but soon given the all clear - after a small plane went into Lake Erie this afternoon.

“The individual rescued himself,” Coast Guard Chief Nicholas Sawka of the Detroit Sector said.

The accident happened about 5 p.m. near the Ohio-Michigan state line, in the area of Woodtick Peninsula and Lost Peninsula.



https://www.monroenews.com/news/20200627/pilot-reported-ok-after-small-plane-goes-into-lake-erie
 
someone should tell this guy his plane's going down tomorrow!



(someone had to say it)
 
Anyone know what kind of plane ? Looks like the kind of little shopping cart wheels you would find on an amphib.
 
Not a lot of options right around there unless you have enough altitude to make it west of I-75. But if you are north or southbound you have to deal with the 4000 foot shelf of the DTW class B just north of there. There is a bit of beach along the lake, but it has a lot of driftwood on it and with the current water levels there probably isn't 1/2 a wing span between water and trees.

edit: As others have noted, looks like an amphibian. With the wheels down. Oops.
 
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Perhaps it was a wheel-down landing in water in an amphib. To prod along the running joke, that means it must be an Icon A5.
 
So it looks more like a 'amphib landing misadventure' than some random plane crashing into the lake.
 
Every time I fly to the islands I worry about an event like this. No way can I keep at a safe altitude on approach to landing. Engine quits I'm going swimming. Thankfully the lake temperature is warm enough that one can swim to shore without succumbing quickly to hypothermia.
 
Seems funny that the wheels are out for a water landing.
 
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