Originally published at: No Injuries After Piper Aztec Accident - AVweb
Pilot makes emergency landing in St. Lucie County, Florida.
Is this more AI reporting? It makes it sound like the plane landed on a city street! It sure looks like it was on the runway at Treasure Coast Airpark.
I’m really wondering why he didn’t land at an airport. Florida seems to have a lot of them. “Low on fuel” would have been appropriate to mention if that was a factor.
And the FAA doesn’t classify anything as a “crash”.
As per 49 CFR 830.2 and 830.5, no, this is not classified as an accident. We actually do have rules regarding such things. A gear up landing is generally filed as an incident unless the circumstances specified in above FARs are met. A simple gear up landing usually doesn’t meet the criteria of major damage or serious injuries.
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There needs to be an experienced pilot writing these reports and a good editor checking them. Is there a runway “near the 15000 block of Skyking Drive”? Yes!
I’d be interested to hear AvWeb’s reply on how this misleading article was published.
Is it considered “reporting” if it only slightly re-phrases a Twitter post, adding no salient information? Throw in a couple of obvious (to pilots) easily verified errors (“city street”?) and one could assert that there was no “intelligence”, artificial or otherwise, evidenced by this article.
And people wonder why we don’t like AI-assisted “reporting.”
If it’s NOT AI, it’s certainly NOT an experienced aviation “reporter” who wrote the story.
No experienced pilot or aviation journalist would have said, “…rear landing gear…”, nor would one have missed the fact that the airplane landed a few hundred feet south of an actual runway, at an airpark, either. “Sky King” drive might have been a tip-off. But not to a stenographer for AI.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised after Firecrown chased away all their actual reporters.
He did! It’s an aviation community with a paved runway a few hundred feet to the north of “Sky King” drive, parallel to the street.
We updated this story to more accurately reflect the aircraft’s location at the time of the incident.
Good luck with that.