Glenn Pew for AVweb.com. Video of a plane crash as it was experienced from the right seat, inside the cockpit. The accident took place on Saturday June 30, 2012 near Bruce Meadows airstrip, not far from Stanley, Idaho. At the time of this report, information was preliminary and subject to change, but some had been collected by the NTSB. The aircraft is a Stinson model 108-3, a 165 horsepower single-engine high-wing propeller-driven plane capable of carrying four, plus full fuel, and light baggage. All four occupants survived the crash with the pilot suffering the worst injury. The cause of the crash is yet undetermined, but an aircraft’s performance is dependent, among other things, on the density of the air it moves through. The pilot appears to have faced “high density altitude” conditions which degrade an aircraft’s takeoff and climb performance. For more, visit AVweb.com:
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He could have landed in that field, unloaded the fatties, and taken off again.
Why didn't he land in the open field ? Its like "I should just be able to make it over this nice flat field to the trees"
Never underestimate the power of denial
FUCKIN CRASH ALREADY
The ageing pilot was demonstrating the fatalistic "It will be fine, I've done this before" attitude of pilot complacency. He should have turned back to the airfield long before the tree-line. But he had so little ground clearance to bank safely.
Why don’t airplanes have airbags?
"The plane wasn't too low; the trees were too high!" ~The pilot, probably.
So much opportunity to avoid the total loss of the aircraft missed for the want of avoiding embarassment. True shame.
Even after going over the trees there was ample power to turn it around, but barely
Trying to climb instead was completely irresponsible.
A pilot refusing to admit that he can't make it happen and put down safely in the open field. If you "think" you can, you can't.
Wow he really gave up alot of landable turf. Heading for a treeline with nothing but rising terrain in this situation was cringing to watch. Yes its hindsight but he should have been able to realize this was going to be the result based on his aircrafts performance during that takeoff. I dont know how many more clues he needed to realize density altitude was about to claim another plane and luckily not people. Those trees aborb energy well.
The problem starts with the pilot pitching the aircraft nose up all the time, no acceleartion, no speed to trade for altitude. I m not a pilot but come on its obv. I see 10´permanently on this vid
The professional aeronautical term for this kind of pilot is a 'fartknocker'
I can't believe he didn't abort before getting to the trees, seamed pretty obvious to me that that that poor little plane wasn't going to climb anywhere near fast enough. Would have been scary crashing into those trees! Glad everybody was relatively ok.
Quiet I'm watching .
As soon as he wasn’t able to achieve positive trends on altitude and vertical speed, and noticed that he was providing full power with no increase in RPM or any other factors that indicate a good climb, he should have set it down and aborted the takeoff.
This is also why you always check your air pressure altitude.
I'm not a pilot but it was clear that the plane wouldn't climb. I don't know why he made that decision, having plenty of land to land on whether to crash on the trees. Anyways, glad they're ok.
Bad Decision Make bad Out Comes!
Now I don't understand this pilot , I'm not a pilot but my common sense would tell me " hey if that plane don't want to climb just land it and stay on the ground!!!" in other words pilot was stupid.
After the first thirty second someone with no prior plane experience would’ve set her down.
They survived? Wow…
I will never fly again!
Anyone With a Basic Knowledge: Oh I see what went wrong
Me: Derrrr plane go smash
he should have aborted the mission
I had a similar experience. My gliding experience led me to gain height from a nearby ridge lift.
"I won't speculate as to the cause of the accident. Anyway, here's what I think happened…"
I saw potential for a put-down before he committed to a climb, if I felt the plane was underpowered, I would’ve put it down right on that field
The arrogance of the many stereotypical pilot does not bode well for them.
Wow… Flew right over lots of empty space to set it down after clearly seeing no positive climb rate.
funny how everybody is suddently a pilot on the comment section.
The old geyser was bound and determined despite the performance of the aircraft……time to quite flying sir.