Ouch!

 

 

 

 

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Not enough throttle or engine failure?

Charlie Browns Kite Eating Tree returns....... and its even hungrier!!!  :ph34r:

The aircraft was N27BD, a Bradley Aerobat BA-100 and according to prelim NTSB investigation there was a partial loss of power on takeoff and a complete failure just before parking it in the tree.

...there was a partial loss of power on takeoff and a complete failure just before parking it in the tree.

 

:rolleyes:

 

and strange why he chose to land in a tree rather than in the flat green fields to his left and straight ahead. Reminds me of the pilot who ran out of fuel over a golf course in Dundee and opted for a tree landing rather than the turf...

 

 

In the Cabbage  :lol:

 

Good to see he walked away from that, I would go buy a lottery ticket right away. A girl from my flight school did the same and parked her aircraft in a tree when she ran out of fuel and walked away as well. Goes to show how well a tree can absorb an aircraft. 

Maybe tree landings should be SOP

 

Although, do you really want to risk impaling yourself on a tree branch coming through the windscreen?

 

From my reading of the video it looks like the pilot was still trying to climb out after takeoff but was making a right hand turn (maybe trying to return to the airfield) just before parking it. You can see him turning his head a few times looking off to the right just before the tree popped up and caught him.

 

You'd like to think one of the things his instructor would have taught him is the best place to aim for in case of an engine failure during takeoff, especially at your local airport.

You would think that four lane road he just crossed might be what he was aiming for.

 

gb.

I was wondering why he never got above about 100 feet.

 

As for the 4 lane road, you want to avoid those.  They have obstructions of various kinds, like traffic and power lines running across them.  This will ruin your day in a hurry.  Besides, he'd never have made the 90 degree turn.

 

It was my very first flight in a Cessna 150 when the instructor cut the throttle at a few hundred feet, still climbing straight out, and asked, "Where are you going to land?"  I already knew from reading (this was in 1970 or so, no simulators) that you don't attempt to return to the airport, so I found a field 45 degrees off to my left and said, "That looks like a good place."  After we landed back at the airport, some others there were berating the instructor for doing "aerobatics in the pattern."  But the next flight he did the same thing with the next student.  Good lesson.

 

Hook

Trees can bend and move to that's probably what absorbed a lot of the impact.

Meanwhile a man in my area had a deer run into his car and the antlers killed him. You just never know how the dice will roll in a collision.........  :unsure:

He seems to overly concerned with the cameras throughout that video.

He seems to overly concerned with the cameras throughout that video.

 

My thoughts exactly. Plus he showed no respect at all for the person who came to help (probably the land-owner who's tree he'd just cropped);  all he said to him was: 'Smile, your on camera!".   

 

Careful out there. The Youtube generation now walk among us