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(Video) Bonanza Engine-Out Crash at Fairbanks Shown from 3 Onboard Cameras N334DH
From Youtube: "Three high definition cameras were mounted to my Beechcraft Bonanza when the engine quit on takeoff from Fairbanks Alaska on July 26th 2012, One was pointed forward, one to the right side, and one to the rear. All three cameras caught the crash as it happened in HD. Both people on board survived with only minor injuries, but the airplane didn't." (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Thank you for the original post and this followup. Sometimes you can do everything right and Murphy still pops up. Thanks for the info on camera 4. Did you get them back yet?
Yes, I did. The crash was on July 26th 2012 and I didn't have access to the video or anything until the NTSB had documented all the data that I gave them. They treated it just like a flight data recorder and I didn't have access to it to even see it myself until they released it to me. That took until the day I posted the video online which I guess was about 9 months.
Its all excellent stuff Dale...and a valid topic worthy of learning from... all of it, Pay no mind the neanderthal mind that can distributes itself on here,The one big drawback to online discussions. On another note... Anything you discovered in dealing with NTSB that you would be willing to share about the agency itself?
I learned that there are several layers from the presidential appointees at thetop level that you sometimes see in the media who are all experts with extremely impressive industry backgrounds, however, these people are only seen at the high-profile events.
There are regioanal investigators that live and work in one defined region such as Alaska and the one I dealt with was very courteous and professional. These people have the ability to call in experts in areas where they need assistance and can contract with shops for tear-downs etc,
There is evidently another layer or two between the ergionals and the top political appointees where a vast amount of knowledge and experince lies and then there are the technical and scientific guys that wear the white suits and do teh lab work. I found it interesting that my video chips had footage of tehir labs on them when they came back.
I alos learned that they treat anything in or on an aircraft that has teh ability to record as if it was a cockpit data or voice recorder which they use as rights to confiscate it. I didn't balk at that but thoughtit was interesting.
Intially they didn't want to return anything until the investigation was completes but after six mnths relented and gave me the cameras without the chips. Once tehy got past the prliminary report and wrote a factual finding theyfinally let me have my chips back.
They also said that in some cases they never get a final "Probable Cause" and instead have to settle for a factual find which is wheer my crash isnow,
There are regioanal investigators that live and work in one defined region such as Alaska and the one I dealt with was very courteous and professional. These people have the ability to call in experts in areas where they need assistance and can contract with shops for tear-downs etc,
There is evidently another layer or two between the ergionals and the top political appointees where a vast amount of knowledge and experince lies and then there are the technical and scientific guys that wear the white suits and do teh lab work. I found it interesting that my video chips had footage of tehir labs on them when they came back.
I alos learned that they treat anything in or on an aircraft that has teh ability to record as if it was a cockpit data or voice recorder which they use as rights to confiscate it. I didn't balk at that but thoughtit was interesting.
Intially they didn't want to return anything until the investigation was completes but after six mnths relented and gave me the cameras without the chips. Once tehy got past the prliminary report and wrote a factual finding theyfinally let me have my chips back.
They also said that in some cases they never get a final "Probable Cause" and instead have to settle for a factual find which is wheer my crash isnow,
Wow. That's amazingly quick thinking by the pilot.
The NTSB with all its resources has not yet been able to determine the cause of the engine failure, hopefully at some point they will. I chose to not fill out a NASA report as a protective mechanism, instead gave that information directly to the NTSB along with my cameras, memory chips, JPI fuel flow monitor, and JPI engone monitor.
I posted this at therisk that the typical penut gallery would go to work second-guessing everything, however, I felt that the benefits of sharing would outweight the negatives from the idiots that usually post everywhere with knowledge about very lttle.
For thise of you who are seriously interested in the cause, I can assure you that as aprofessional pilot (ATP, CFII, MEI) with several thousand hours of experience gained over 45 years of flying, I pre-flighted properly, had all the switches and selectors in the right positions, and had a very wellmaintained airplane with only about 100 hours on afactory new engine. I had flown teh airplane between four and five hours each of the previous four days.
Hopefully the mechanical reason for this will be found by the professionals that inspected it right after the crash, did the teardown analysis later, and test ran the enhone since the crash. Yes, they checked fuel quantiy and the quality on the truck from which it came, from the tank where the truck got its fuel, and from the facilty where that came from.