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Pilot Injured in Plane Crash on State Highway 71 in Horseshoe Bay, Texas

HORSESHOE BAY, TX — Representatives from the Texas Department of Public Safety have not yet identified the pilot that was hurt in a plane crash that happened in Horseshoe Bay, Texas on Thursday, May 28th, 2015. News reports coming out of Austin said that the plane went down sometime Thursday afternoon.

A pilot was hurt after the plane he was flying crashed on Highway 71. Investigators said that the plane crashed immediately after takeoff from the Horseshoe Bay Resort Airport. It is not clear at this point what may have gone wrong in the aircraft.

EMS personnel took the pilot and sole occupant to University Medical Center Brackenridge to be treated for unspecified injuries.

It is not currently clear if officials from the National Transportation Safety Board have started their investigation at this point.

Scene of the Accident

View of the Road

Commentary:

Even though there isn’t a great deal of information to work off of in the news, based on what I’ve seen, I’d be willing to go out on a limb and estimate that it may not have been pilot error that caused the crash. What makes me think this? Well, the fact that the pilot had enough control over the craft to make an emergency touchdown on a highway, for one. If the plane suffered from some kind of mechanical fault or catastrophic failure, there is a chance that the plane’s manufacturer could bear a portion of the liability. Now the NTSB may figure this out by themselves, but considering how backlogged they are with cases all across the nation, it may take them a year or a year and a half to do so. The time that the NTSB takes to pin down a cause can eat away up to 75% of the time victims have to file a claim, should one be warranted after the investigation.

Many times, and independent investigation arranged by victims or their loved ones can yield the answers they’re looking for much, much faster than an over-burdened government agency can provide them, in addition to giving them significantly more time to mull their options once they have some definitive answers.

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