Ave Du Parc Airport?

Montreal, QC - CE - Thursday, September 14th, 2006 : goo

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While at the Sunday Tam-Tams last week, I was sitting on the grass talking to my roommate about how many drugs the dancers were probably on to be able to dance as long as they were when, all of a sudden, everyone got up and started running down towards ave Du parc.

I picked up my camera and started down the hill with the crowd. Everyone had gathered on the street around what what looked like a small airplane in the middle of the north bound lane of the street.

There were people everwhere, nobody quite knew what was going on. I was just as confused as everyone else.

The pilot (in red) called the police on his cellphone. I found out from someone who was talking to him that his engine gave out and he had to make an emergency landing.

If anything, he atleast had a good audience. There were people everywhere!

The police soon showed up and started taping the area off.

If you look at the tip of the wing on the right you can see a bit of damage. I thought maybe it had hit a tree on its way down but I later found out it had clipped a street sign.

Hundreds of people lined both sides of the street. Between the football game on one side of the street and the Tam-Tams on the other, there were well over a thousand people there.

The police begin pushing people off the street onto the sidewalk so emergency vehicles could check the plane.

Two ambulances, six or seven firetrucks, and a number of police cars were all over the place. Thank God nobody was injured. Had the pilot landed just metres to the right or left he could have hurt a lot of people!

Here's a news story from The Gazette about the incident: www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=a6f703d3-fa19-4c82-9563-95d0dafe85b1

Ave du Parc, Plateau, Montreal

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