Orlando, Florida One of the most tragic videos I have. This is a Cessna 172 carrying an instructor and his students. After total engine failur, the instructor decides to land on a golf course. He overshoots the approach, catches some power lines, and impacts a pole. The instructor dies immediately; the student recovers completely.
www.aviafilms.com – Cessna videos. In this video you will see several Cessna 152 landings and takeoffs during initial PPL pilot training. There will also be a couple of touch-and-go’s and go-around’s. These were student pilots flying so please be kind with your comments and enjoy this Cessna video! www.aviafilms.com – More interesting Aircraft stuff including cockpit videos.
*sigh* people that drive on like that pretend that they didn’t see anything or too important to stop really piss me off. Cheers to the pilot that tried to crash land. In a neighborhood! Not a lot of options there.
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Um, there are some really stupid comments on here. The pilot hit the light pole as a result of trying not to hit the SUV. It was an excellent and skillful attempt at a forced landing.
The pilot spared the lives of those on the ground, and the other pilot. He is a hero. May he rest in peace. It’s ridiculous to read pilots second-guessing this brave person’s efforts — all while seated comfortably in their lazy-boys. Absurd. (I am a commercial pilot multi/single engine – and I was the musician
the car kept dricing id be like WTF~!!!_)(*&^%#@@ and if i crashed my plane i hope someone would stop
@WithRico typical north american citizen
@lardman2228 You don’t want to “pitch up” to lose the airspeed, you want to level off to get to best glide, and then trim the aircraft for that speed.
@CFITOMAHAWK2 Exactly, grass runways, not golf courses. Maybe there were trees in the way, maybe the PinC decided that there wouldn’t be enough room to land in the golf course and decided to take the road, not noticing the power lines. It’s so easy to speculate, but in that situation, you and I and most other pilots out there apart from the best, would be load shedding like anything with an engine failure. Also remember that you’re seeing the situation at a different angle, not from the cockpit.
@lardman2228 I landed C-172′s on grass runways hundreds of times. Can’t you see they needed to do a forward slip instead of going to the road and wires and houses? Those two guys had over $100,000 in USA training and hours and neither could do do a forward slip to save themselves? WTF. Those two CFI’s are famous around the world as an example of USA Chicken CFI’s by Flight Schools around the world. They show this video & other CFI crashes to students that want to come to USA for training.
The thing to remember for anyone criticising this piloting is that 172s glide like anything, and if you’re used to flying something that doesn’t glide so well, you’re pretty well screwed if you pick a field that’s slightly too small
@BOEINGFRENZY Be that as it may, an engine failure over mountainous terrain is never very forgiving.
@CFITOMAHAWK2 I’m sorry, have you successfully piloted that particular aircraft in a safe forced landing onto a golf course? You don’t know what went on in that aircraft and neither do I but at least I’m not judging the piloting capabilities of a dead man based on the outside view of it.
@malamagr Oh, well F-16s are a bit different from C172s. F-16s aren’t built to glide, they’re built to fly with huge amounts of thrust and have high speed wings instead of high lift or general purpose wings. It’s the speed in an F-16 that keeps it in the air. Whereas with a C172, they have general purpose wings, they give a good combination of lift and speed and can fly quite slowly (with a best glide speed of 65 knots). So I guess the pitch up/pitch down dilemma depends on the plane you fly.
I love the Cessna 152
@warren6815 Yea…..I guess those British have a sense of humor.
Birds at 2:44 looking dangerous
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