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Engine failure and crash caught on GoPro cameras (VIDEO)
A pilot loses engine output on takeoff and makes a crash landing into a tree. Video captured by three GoPro cameras. (www.youtube.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Can someone please explain how turning nose first into the tallest tree in the area is preferable to any one of the many flat grassy areas seen on the video in the vicinity?
Perhaps this would be help answer your question:
http://www.despair.com/mistakes.html
http://www.despair.com/mistakes.html
This is an example of what can happen in a similar accident:
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/new/36375/2_Killed_In_Plane_Crash_At_Taunton_Airport
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/new/36375/2_Killed_In_Plane_Crash_At_Taunton_Airport
Here's another description of this second crash:
http://m.tauntongazette.com/wkdTGazette/pm_32196/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=NGNNYpqN
The only difference between these 2 accidents is that in one, the occupants were able to walk away. The other not.
http://m.tauntongazette.com/wkdTGazette/pm_32196/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=NGNNYpqN
The only difference between these 2 accidents is that in one, the occupants were able to walk away. The other not.
Here's a video of another similar incident but in a Cesna-172, and the pilot chose a grassy area ahead, instead of turning sharply toward a road.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbqDTuAQoi4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbqDTuAQoi4
That was my first reaction