Pax River Test Pilots have a Mixed Day!

[SASless]

Two Pax River Test Pilots.....well former Test Pilots perhaps.....had a mixed day of Flying recently. While off flying in a Mooney they experienced Engine Problems and made an emergency landing into a Cornfield near Pax River.

The Results....no injuries and one slightly dinged up Mooney.



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[Runaway Gun]

Looks like a well executed forced landing.

[Shawn Coyle]

When I was an instructor there, two staff at the US Naval Test Pilot School (can't remember, but I think one of them was a navigator) had rented a C-172 for a ski trip. Ran out of gas on the way back and landed safely on a suburban street.
One of them ended up going to NASA as a mission specialist. But with a bit of a reputation...

[barit1]

Tech issue - fuel system contaminated with air? :8

[Rob Erdos]

I'm just curious, was this a USNTPS "qual eval" or were they flying recreationally? I've seen a lot of airplanes on the ramp at Pax River, but I've never noticed a Mooney.

Rob Erdos
Ottawa