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Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 14 Jan 2021, 14:16
by Nigel H-J
Hope he recovers soon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-55653616

Regards
Nigel.

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 14 Jan 2021, 15:14
by airboatr
It appears the trees or large bushes, whatever the plane landed on, absorbed much of the collision.

Lucky for him

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 14 Jan 2021, 18:24
by Filonian
Lucky chap.


Graham

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 14 Jan 2021, 19:01
by adysmith
He clearly did not "fly the aeroplane - all the way to the crash"

Looks well stalled at impact!

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 14 Jan 2021, 21:52
by Motormouse
There goes someone's no claims bonus

Ttfn

Pete

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 15 Jan 2021, 00:07
by AllanL
There is a comment from an eye-witness that it seemed to be coming sideways, and the brief shot prior to "arrival" shows a very flat impact that maybe spread the shock the length of the fuselage. Aft CoG, flat spin, or just very lucky? (99% of tinterweb pondering is utter spheriods - no credence should ever be given to it)

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 15 Jan 2021, 01:00
by TSR2
The port engine doesn’t appear to be turning prior to the impact either.

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 15 Jan 2021, 01:18
by blanston12
TSR2 wrote:
15 Jan 2021, 01:00
The port engine doesn’t appear to be turning prior to the impact either.
Yeah, the report did say they suffered some sort of engine failure. It seemed like a pretty steep decent, that there was no fire I wonder if someone forgot to fuel it up.

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 15 Jan 2021, 14:36
by Nigel H-J
With an impact as great as that in the video then the needles of the fuel gauge could have been thrown upwards but in the picture I have circled the (what I think) are the fuel gauges and appear to have sufficient onboard though as written earlier, with the speed of impact, they could have been forced upwards due to the near vertical impact as it indicates more fuel in one tank than the other and would be out of balance.

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Regards
Nigel.

Re: Pilot Survives Enormous Crash

Posted: 15 Jan 2021, 15:56
by TSR2
Or possibly he forgot to open the fuel valves before take off. Not sure what phase of the flight he was in, but certainly looks like neither engine was running from what I could make out.