{"id":65633,"date":"2020-12-01T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/aircraft-wrecked-by-strong-wind-while-taxiing-at-airport\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T17:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:36:53","slug":"aircraft-wrecked-by-strong-wind-while-taxiing-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/aircraft-wrecked-by-strong-wind-while-taxiing-at-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft wrecked by strong wind while taxiing at airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

Capital City Fire\/Rescue responded to an airplane wreck at Juneau International Airport Wednesday afternoon after strong winds destroyed a personal aircraft.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“A personal aircraft — a Piper Super Cub — was on the taxiway,” said CCFR assistant fire chief Ed Quinto in a phone interview. “A strong gust of wind picked it up and put it down in the median.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The aircraft’s wings, prop and undercarriage were destroyed in the crash, but the pilot was not injured, Quinto said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“Fortunately, he was not injured,” Quinto said. “He walked out and was standing there when we arrived.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Rapid response by the airport staff helped to clear the taxiway, Quinto said, although some flights were diverted or canceled as of Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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Capital City Fire\/Rescue responded after a personal aircraft was destroyed by high winds while taxiing at Juneau International Airport Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 2, 2020. (Michael S. Lockett \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

“They should be open right now,” Quinto said. “Airfield maintenance responded pretty quickly.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The owner of the aircraft, who was not identified, had been relocating the aircraft on the field when the crash occured.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plane was not in flight, and no injuries occured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":65637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-65633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65633"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=65633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}