Posted on Sunday 24 June 2007
Sounding like something lifted directly out of a James Bond flick, a Cessna piloted by a pair of FBI agents has crashed into a black Italian supercar at an airport in Oregon. The owner of the exotic, Marlowe Treit, who purchased the car back in 1998, is now suing over the accident and is seeking up to $105,500 in damages.
At the controls of the Cessna were FBI agents John Jeffries and Robert Brockmeyer, who reported that the plane was moving down the taxiway when the car collided with the propeller. Treit was driving his 1985 Lamborghini Countach, which after getting hit by the plane’s propeller started to gush fluids. The car was still drivable after the hit but hasn’t been driven since.
Treit, who owns a business at the airport, told reporters from local newspaper The Oregonian that he had the right of way and the pilots should have seen him. However, the transportation safety board has determined that both Treit and the agents were at fault as both failed “to maintain an adequate visual lookout.”
Follow the jump to see a video of the damaged car plus an explanation from Treit about how rare his beloved Countach was.
Two things:
1: I have always heard that a plane has the right of way. You’re not going to see even a Cessna at the local 4 way intersection in which traffic rules apply. They are usually found inside an airport where planes are king.
2. Only some dude driving a Countant could be so egotistical to think that he has the right of way vs a plane inside an airport. I’d bet good money he would have thought the same thing had the plane been a freking jumbo jet…
At airports planes maybe king but even then they have no authority to fly around and collide with Lamborghinis!
Also, “some dude driving a Countant” (by the way it’s Countach) is not “egostical” to think he has the right of way in an airport. If the Cessna had been a “freking (freaking) jumbo jet” he would have died with the Countach but even that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have the right of way.
So “Hector”, please think carefully and consider all points well before you post such an outrageous comment here. Thank you and God Bless (the Countach).