Roush Suvives Another Plane Crash

talk about a bad place to have a bad landing at (please dont tell me that stupid ole saying...any landing you can walk away from etc etc). Only a few thousands specatators and a few thousand pilots to critique on the spot. Im not a fan of the milionaire jet pilot and we'll see more of these as the vogue airplanes are no longer Bonanzas but now VLJs.
 
This was a chain of events.

Airport just reopened after air show.
Lots of outbound traffic, lots of inbound traffic
ATC trying to maximize available airspace
JR gets in close with another airplane departing, makes S-turns for spacing
Can't recover from a low altitude S-turn and plants it in the grass.

The solution? User fees.
 
Jack is unlucky and lucky at the same time. He's survived 2 crashes and one taxi incident. Back in the late 90's he taxied his P-51 into the back of another aircraft.
 
Douglas said:
I will be very surprised if somebody didn't get the entire event on camera.
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That's what I'm saying... there are so many cameras there at OSH every year pointed to the sky. Someone has video of it and they don't have a computer/internet to post it. It'll surface later this week or early next week when every one goes home, I'm sure.
 
I watched the video and some people were saying he stalled? Not sure.

I have a lot of hours flying out of that airport, I actually did all my multi-engine training there. If you look on the east side of the field and see a ratty old apache... that is the one I flew. :) Can't beat 125 an hour for multi.

Anyways... not to hijack the thread, I was going to say the main runways are large and there is nothing too complex about landing there. They have 2 smaller runways that are usually closed, but I don't think he would have landed on those.

I hope he recovers from the incident, and they can figure out what happened.
 
Tram said:
I'm told he over shot the runway on the approach, attempted to get back onto the runway he was cleared too land on too aggressively.. Stall > Crunch > Bleed.
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Overshot? Wow. 18/36 is like 8800ft or so. Even 9/27 is pretty big. But I suppose the only precision approach is on 36, so if he was landing on 18 it is the LOC back course. In that case he would need to do it all visually, and I suppose you could come in high on that.
 
That's also not the first NASCAR-related plane crash either. Alan Kulwicki is another; and I thought there was some connection with the King Air that went down near Mt. Airy, NC a couple years back, but I can't find the detail.

Seems like being associated with race cars is almost as bad as being in a band.
 
We were number 3 for landing and I snapped a picture of it from above right as the trucks were rolling to it. The closed the whole place up and we had to divert to Fond du lac for the night.
 
N99999 said:
That's also not the first NASCAR-related plane crash either. Alan Kulwicki is another; and I thought there was some connection with the King Air that went down near Mt. Airy, NC a couple years back, but I can't find the detail.
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Lots of the Hendrick family was on the King Air, IIRC. NASCAR lost a C310 a couple of years ago here in Florida. NASCAR is no stranger to plane crashes, and considering the number of teams and drivers that have airplanes, its not something that is unexpected.
 
Callador said:
Overshot? Wow. 18/36 is like 8800ft or so. Even 9/27 is pretty big. But I suppose the only precision approach is on 36, so if he was landing on 18 it is the LOC back course. In that case he would need to do it all visually, and I suppose you could come in high on that.
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It was on 18R, which only about 6000' long. It being during the airshow, he had to follow the weird and tight approach path in the NOTAM (I am guessing). Also, I don't see any flaps down in any of these pictures.
 
Callador said:
Overshot? Wow. 18/36 is like 8800ft or so. Even 9/27 is pretty big. But I suppose the only precision approach is on 36, so if he was landing on 18 it is the LOC back course. In that case he would need to do it all visually, and I suppose you could come in high on that.
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This isn't the turbine arrival but it will put you in the same downwind/ base position for 18R.

He didn't overshot in length. I first saw him in a left tun inside of the blue dot (first dot) which I assumed was his base to final. He was down and stopped by the area of the yellow dot (third dot), if that puts it into perspective for people.
 
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