Fell out of Sky Today

[StewCal 12]

This was a first for me:  Was on a stable approach on the ILS 24R approach into LAX this morning when I disconnected the autopilot at about 1000 ft and suddenly nosed over and plunged into the ground.  NTSB investigating...

[Delta747Man 9]

Yikes. Poor Q400, must be pilot error. :lol:

[Sunaru 12]

Sounds like I can expect a new episode of Air Crash Investigation/Mayday next year!  ^_^ 
In all earnest, did it tip over? Did it just dive to the ground?

[hopskip 253]

Airspeed? Stall horn?

[Boeing or not going 578]

And you lived to talk about it? It's a miracle! My guess is wake turbulence effect gone wrong.

[StewCal 12]

Yes, very tragic.  Great replay though!!

 

Happened very quickly with no warning...Transcript of CVR:

 

Oh #&@#!

[Capt. Farhadi 5]

oh!happened for me about a week ago

[Rocky_53 1,579]

Hee hee, I too experienced a stall on landing! I think the AOA is a lot shallower than many planes and it has to be 'flown' onto the runway a lot more than other aircraft...

[SierraHotel 976]

Hee hee, I too experienced a stall on landing! I think the AOA is a lot shallower than many planes and it has to be 'flown' onto the runway a lot more than other aircraft...

"'flown' onto the runway" That's the key, it's really easy to pull too much power off at the wrong moment.

[Rocky_53 1,579]

"'flown' onto the runway" That's the key, it's really easy to pull too much power off at the wrong moment.

 

Hi Mike, sure... it's surprising how disappointed I was with myself afterwards!

[SierraHotel 976]

Hi Mike, sure... it's surprising how disappointed I was with myself afterwards!

Don't be to hard on yourself Howard, if like me you use the throttles for reverse, it's quite easy in the Dash to pull back a tad to far.....Boy is that fun or what!!...;-)

[Capt. Farhadi 5]

this is not a stall.upset condition,stabilizer goes to full forward and wont come back

[StewCal 12]

Hee hee, I too experienced a stall on landing! I think the AOA is a lot shallower than many planes and it has to be 'flown' onto the runway a lot more than other aircraft...

Airspeed? Stall horn?

This was definitely not a stall. Everything was perfect on the approach. I think the flight dynamics engine disconnected with FSX or something. It literally fell out of the sky.

 

Cool replay from tower view....HE HE...

[Sunaru 12]

It's interesting to note 2 people had that problem (if I'm reading Capt. Farhadi right). Did the stabilizer go full forward with you as well, Steve? Or was it a completely different reason that caused you to crash?

[StewCal 12]

Nosed over hard and could not recover...