Plane Loses Wing During Flight

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 25 Oct 2006, 19:10

Video with japanese narration, not sure what the make of the aircraft is.

http://www.break.com/index/wingless1.html

Post by **Garry Russell** » 25 Oct 2006, 19:24

Awful event......time to think about it

Hard to tell the type but it looks like a Partenavia P.68...but it may be something Japanese

Garry

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 25 Oct 2006, 19:35

It is a Partenavia Victor - somewhere in Texas in the late 90s I believe
the videos been around the web for a while - what made it
horrifying is the guys wife was doing the announcements on the original
video - not a nice thing at all - he apparently overstressed the thing on the first pass and when he unloaded the airframe the main spar failed.

Leif

Paul K · Post by **Paul K** » 25 Oct 2006, 20:24

Grim stuff. :sad:

Post by **Garry Russell** » 25 Oct 2006, 20:26

I was right then Leif

Thought it was but you can never be that sure.

They didn't use the Victor name officially in the UK to save confusion with the V bomber/tanker...yeah right :k: :think:

Garry

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 25 Oct 2006, 21:14

Nasty.

blanston12 · Post by **blanston12** » 25 Oct 2006, 21:49

Very tragic, when I saw it I though he was starting another loop but from that video it was hard to tell.

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 25 Oct 2006, 22:16

Have seen the clip some months ago. Awful thing to happen and I hope not a common occurance.

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 25 Oct 2006, 23:09

I read it was a case of too many G's
and the wings couldn't handle the load
it's been on the web at
http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aviation_v ... m#AIRSHOWS
for some time
........a sad event no doubt

cstorey · Post by **cstorey** » 25 Oct 2006, 23:13

The Partenavia P68 was not cleared for aerobatics and it was sheer lunacy to try, the result being bilateral main spar failure as we saw. The result of this was that for some years all P68s were limited to, I think, 130kts IAS because it was thought that it was not just a g related overload, but a combination of g and speed inducing some kind of flutter. AFAIK, the limitation has now been lifted