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Mexican Pilot Emergency Lands Plane At Mallow Racecourse, Ireland 1983
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2023
- A Mexican pilot who made an emergency landing at a Cork racecourse awaits the building of a runway so that he can depart.
On 18 April 1983, Captain Ruben Ocana flying a Gulfstream II made an unexpected landing at Mallow Racecourse. The Mexican pilot and his crew remained stranded in Mallow for 39 days until a runway was laid to get the 15-seat jet airborne again.
Captain Ocana made the emergency landing at Mallow Racecourse after running low on fuel on route to Cork Airport when Shannon Airport was fogged out.
Reporter Pat Butler visited Mallow during the Rakes of Mallow Festival to talk to Captain Ocana and to follow the progress of the building of a runway adjacent to the racecourse.
The greatest tourist attraction to have hit the town of Mallow in living memory, a seven million pound executive jet which with great panache was landed here by the Mexican Captain Okana.
Locals who witnessed the landing described what they saw and the skill of the pilot in landing the plane. One man has put the events in verse.
As he flew towards Mallow town
His supply of fuel was down
But the pilot was as cool as cool could be.
In a racetrack west of town
He made a safe touch down
Just beside the Mallow sugar factory.
The emergency landing even features at the local Rakes of Mallow Festival with re-enactments of Captain Ocana’s adventures on the streets of the town.
Captain Ocana has been embraced by the town of Mallow and has settled into the Central Hotel to await the completion of the runway. The pilot has become somewhat of a celebrity of the town and has been given the privilege of judging a beauty pageant.
An ‘Ireland’s Eye’ report broadcast on 25 May 1983. The reporter is Pat Butler.
His daughter, Marianna, was recently in Mallow to thank the people there for the hospitality towards her father during the 6 weeks he spent there after this incident. It was his last wish after he died in 2009 that she tell the locals there how grateful he was. 2023
Wow, that's great. Thanks for the info 👍
What an unusual and stunning brilliant story, Years ago my dear father was at the landing of the first transatlantic flight from the gold old US of A to Connemara West of Ireland John Alcock and Arthur Brown landed on 15 June 1919
Wow. How old are you! I'm 64. My Dublin girlfriend and I drove to the site in 1982 - ish while staying in a cottage rental near Galway over Christmas. The longest 50 mile signposted route of all time - seemed like 250 miles. I hope you are well.
Nice vintage Gulfstream II from Jets Ejecutivos, S.A. from Televisa.
Teamwork from the crew on the ground and in the cockpit saved everyone! Including the jet!
Good situational awareness SA
Good crew resource management CRM
Good Irish radar controller to direct them to Mellow racetrack!!
Capt. Ruben Ocaña, flew DC-8’s with Aeronaves de Mexico ( Aeromexico ) before joining Jets Ejecutivos!
I just read his ashes have been scattered over the racecourse in last week... big ceremony load of his family came over 🇮🇪
The plane in the end never got to take off and is still stuck there in Mallow, Co, Cork all these decades later. Mallow got it's runway and now has an international airport. The pilot did get back to Mexico (by other means)
Really? Wow. I remember the it in the news. I had moved to Dublin from Cork in 1977 (37 years now in London). I always assumed it had paid off. Must have been difficult and costly to assess any landing damage. I really thought they flew it to one of those airports.
EDIT: Nah. I've just seen a quick video of it taking off. czcams.com/video/o0xI20dFN38/video.htmlsi=mfZRXxTU9Nr_uQYQ
"Wrong way Corrigan" was very famous at the time. That God the Mexicans were ok with the landing.
That was 1938 not early 80s
i must be old, i recognise & know far too many people in this video. Some now sadly passed on.
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These videos only show us how safe Ireland was..not anymore
Only in Ireland 🇮🇪 hey anyone know what happened to the runway after
Was this 1985?
Ah the 80s nothing to see here