"Augered in"
"Bought it?"
Geeze. What are you? A 1940's fighter pilot? Sure hope relatives coming to site like this one to try and glean some answers from tragedy like this one don't have to read that.
"Augered in"
"Bought it?"
Geeze. What are you? A 1940's fighter pilot? Sure hope relatives coming to site like this one to try and glean some answers from tragedy like this one don't have to read that.
"Augered in"
"Bought it?"
Geeze. What are you? A 1940's fighter pilot? Sure hope relatives coming to site like this one to try and glean some answers from tragedy like this one don't have to read that.
Answers? how about don't try to turn around at 300ft without an engine?
RIP to those lost. Thoughts for the families and friends.
Where did you hear they lost an engine and tried to turn so low?
"Augered in"
"Bought it?"
Geeze. What are you? A 1940's fighter pilot? Sure hope relatives coming to site like this one to try and glean some answers from tragedy like this one don't have to read that.
Common aviation terminology. Deal with it."Augered in"
"Bought it?"
Geeze. What are you? A 1940's fighter pilot? Sure hope relatives coming to site like this one to try and glean some answers from tragedy like this one don't have to read that.
Common aviation terminology. Deal with it.
Yeah whatever.
Too me it comes off as desensitized, and immature.
Yeah whatever.
Too me it comes off as desensitized, and immature.
I am going to guess you have not lost a close friend in this industry yet. Give it time.
With all the development that has encroached on the boundaries of airports in many areas, it is hard to find acceptable places to put an airplane down in the event of an engine loss on climb-out. In such a situation, you're almost assured of hitting something, but you're going to have a much better chance of walking away from it the lower to the ground you are and the slower you're going when you do hit something.
The airport where I did my PPL training at had about a total of 3/4 of a mile or more of golf course right off the end of the preferred use runway. There was no doubt where I would put it down if my engine went out there.
It looks to me like they were trying to turn to put it down on 15 or perhaps make the open area just to the west of there, on the news story link, you can see a green roof building and the control tower in the background, both easily identified on Google Maps.
By the way, 24 and 15 are now 25 and 16.
Student pilot question here:
From looking at the sat images, the pilot would have had to been taking off on runway 24. In my instruction book on take-off power-loss it talks about maintaining level flight as best as possible and quickly finding a place to land. So, to the more experienced folks out there....what would you have done? Check out google maps and see what you think about possible emergency landing spots (if any).
Personally, from what minuscule knowledge i have, i would have picked east 7th street, which dead ends into a cemetery with some trees about 1km from the end of the runway. That, with my limited knowledge, would seem to be the most survivable course of action (depending on traffic below of course)