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I've gotta stop clicking on these links.
My guess is that he was stalled, or on the verge of stalling, and he tried to turn...when you turn, it puts one wing into more of a stall than the other, and that would cause one wing to dip. Usually the inside wing on the turn, because it gets less air flow and produces less lift.
Going off of the orginal post here which said 21 of 58 had died.I hadn't done a search,has this changed?
I think there were 15 injured, including two on the ground, presumably in the taxi. The rest were missing - and probably not alive if the plane submerged.
I figured you'd know better than me. Either way, he's just 100 yards away from pulling off a Sully Sullenburg landing.
was there in November.
Yeah...Having an engine out could do that too, but flying a twin-engine with one engine out is something that you have to learn to get your twin-certification (I'm NOT twin engine certified, but I understand the basics). I haven't actually read the story...was this guy taking off or landing? It's just odd to me that if it was an engine out, he couldn't maintain altitude. Usually you can...again, not an expert here with this plane, capacities, etc., but I feel like at a minimum, he should've just been able to level off and hold altitude.
Jesus...that 1st pic is nuts. When I used to fly a lot, I saw one of those "Most Dangerous Airports" TV shows and saw the plane crash that is your 2nd picture here. That airport looked nuts. It's VERY hard to make an approach where your angle of descent has to be steep becuase the natural impact of that is that you gain speed, making stopping more difficult...then here you've got a short runway and a beach. I imagine a "good" landing here is just one where you walk away.two more
duck!
beach
If we hit the beach, I figured we'd survive, but definitely get banged up... with the wife pregnant I was in the process of leaning over in front of her to keep her from banging the seat in front.
Funny... on the way down, the pilot had his elbow out the window (again- small plane, like a minivan) and was very casual. these guys have to get special training to land there, and are doing the trip multiple times daily. on the way down, us and the other handful of passengers were all excitedly chit-chatting about how crazy it all was.
after he guns it off the runway, we're all tight-lipped and whiteknuckled as he circles back up and around and manages to land on the second pass. His hands were 10-2 the entire rest of the of trip, window closed.
Holy ####.
Damn. I took the AA flight that crashed in the Rockaways in 2001 a week prior and the return route four days after. It wasn't a mechanical malfunction but I didn't know that at the time.
Yeah, there was only 1 plane that made that trip at the time so it was definitely the same plane. It didn't crash on that runway, it actually crashed over the jungle on the flight from Panama City to San Blas.
Nobody was lucky. But to get all Dentisty the people on the plane were in trouble and, when the plane started to crash, had a high rate of death. That taxi, despite all the room on the road, just happened to be traveling the exact same speed and place to get gouged by the wing.
Wait, the taxi driver didn't die??? The way it got it and the pictures afterwords looked like he for sure died.
Wow. Then I take back my initial statement. I thought for sure the people in the taxi died.
I have had that same dream ... several of times. I'm watching a plane go down vs. being in it.
