flyerme Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 http://www.gadling.com/2012/11/05/video-plane-hits-car-in-virginia/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Watched it on the news. The cessna was coming in a bit short & low I reckon.Also the car driver didnt stop at a stop sign which is located before the runway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 All the holes in the cheeze lined up 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Isaac Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Damn lucky the prop didn't decapitate the driver of the SUV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskpilot Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Surely the pilot would have seen the car in his peripheral vision. Power up and climb a couple of feet would have saved the aircraft and the car. Bloody SUV drivers. He should have looked for the plane as well. Both to blame? Hope we see the official outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphire Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Was it his first solo flight? Had tunnel vision at the time. He was that low he could have easily hit the fence if the car was not there-maybe it saved him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyknots Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 http://www.gadling.com/2012/11/05/video-plane-hits-car-in-virginia/ It's amazing this was actually captured on video! BTW: Did anyone actually count how many times the same clip was played in this newsclip? (It would have to be close to a record for all the news I have seen with the exceptions of another plane-related incident: the 9/11 Twin Towers event) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentreau Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 The pilot was clearly low, the runway has a displaced threshold 130m from the road ! Apparently there are no stop signs, only the word STOP painted on the (private) road. Technically, it should not be necessary for the car to stop, though it's obviously sensible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Wonder why there was only the left wheel spat on the aircraft? Seems a bit odd.... Flapless landing which is why he's so low and flat I would imagine... Coming into Toowoomba you have to fly right over a street to land, I've always wondered what would happen if a high load was going past at the same time you were coming in a bit low over the fence - something like this no doubt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Evans Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 what happen to a bit of common sence the car would have a clear view beening left hand drive ? luck for hjm or her that it was a left hand drive or they be miniced meat ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyerme Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 watch closely he acaually stalls on to the suv ,I think it would have been a bad/hard landing without the suv's involvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentreau Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 And it would have been short of the tarmac, never mind the displaced threshold ! I also heard from someone in the Dallas area that this is the fourth accident at that airfield in two months ! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest czechmate Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Wonder why there was only the left wheel spat on the aircraft? Seems a bit odd.... Actually it is there if you look carefully on full screen (lost in the shadow) You can see it fly off on impact. Good training video regardless of how unfortunate for all concerned & it was even better no injuries of any consequence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffreywh Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 The situation is exactly the same at Tyabb. A major road makes a T with the runway. You have to look out for trucks on your approach , especially for us flapless sorts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Bloody Volvo Drivers.LOL If the SUV wasnt there, the plane would not have hit anything. He cleared the fence by a few feet. He would have landed short but the cessna wouldnt have hit anything, apart from dirt before the runway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Isaac Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 What I find curious is that if as reported it was the pilots first solo, what the hell was he doing landing flapless in a C172????? What you cant tell from the video is whether he powered up at the time of the impact with the SUV or was it the impact that arrested his descent rate? Love the Volvo comment Dazz ... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Am I correct in seeing the windsock was showing a tailwind? OME 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Looks as though he was practicing a flaples and (as you do) try to not waste any runway. he had to lift it over the fence slightly and having done that probably though he was right. I don't think he was stalled. If you look at the elevator position, but it was certainly a low approach and he would have just reached the beginning of the runway, if he held it off. That may have been his intention. He didn't fly like it was his first solo and ( as stated) why would he do a flapless and ( in a way ) do it so well. IF the SUV wasn't there it would have been a good flapless approach for a short strip. I don't think you could blame anybody there except the builder of the runway and Murphy's law. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentreau Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Regardless of the type of approach, he should have been aiming for the threshold which is 130m from the impact point. He'd have needed a good dose of power to hold off for another 130m before touching down. He can't argue that he needed the runway either, there's 930m after the displaced threshold ! The other question raised is, if this was his first solo, what was his instructor doing at the time? . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Evans Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 [quote! filming ? The other question raised is, if this was his first solo, what was his instructor doing at the time? . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentreau Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 filming ? I think the report mentions that his wife was filming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyerme Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 quote"Pilot William Davis was completing his first solo flight, and his wife happened to be filming his landing when she captured the collision. For his part, Davis says he'll never fly a plane again, after this near miss." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyerme Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Looks as though he was practicing a flaples and (as you do) try to not waste any runway. he had to lift it over the fence slightly and having done that probably though he was right. I don't think he was stalled. If you look at the elevator position, but it was certainly a low approach and he would have just reached the beginning of the runway, if he held it off. That may have been his intention. He didn't fly like it was his first solo and ( as stated) why would he do a flapless and ( in a way ) do it so well. IF the SUV wasn't there it would have been a good flapless approach for a short strip. I don't think you could blame anybody there except the builder of the runway and Murphy's law. Nev quote"Pilot William Davis was completing his first solo flight, and his wife happened to be filming his landing when she captured the collision. For his part, Davis says he'll never fly a plane again, after this near miss." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Evans Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 That a shame that he won't fly again I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av8vfr Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 quote"Pilot William Davis was completing his first solo flight, and his wife happened to be filming his landing when she captured the collision. For his part, Davis says he'll never fly a plane again, after this near miss." I missed the near miss.... looked like a hit to me.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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