Plane crashes into hangar in Long Beach, Ca.

I've seen some hangars that have Big A$$ Fans installed, but this is the first one with 100+ hp.

(Edit: Interestingly, with the new PoA software, I cannot link the BAF website to the "Big A$$ Fans" text in the sentence above, presumably because it has a-s-s in the text of the link. But it lets me post it inline: https://bigassfans.com/)
 
Kenny Phillips said:
If that was a stall/spin, that pilot is beyond lucky. Otherwise, unless he was buzzing the hangar and caught his wheels, I don't see how he could end up like that.
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I too am thinking it was a stall spin but I'll let the youtube crash professionals determine a cause. :) In the end, glad everyone is okay, but the only thing I can figure is a low altitude stall into the hangar.
 
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Got to be a security camera somewhere on the field get this
 
Well, that looked more like a botched landing on a roof rather than anything else … perhaps all roof landings should qualify as botched but I don’t wish to be too judgmental on a Friday afternoon…
 
Looks like he was configured for Vh (hangar) instead of Vx or Vy…
 
Warmi said:
Well, that looked more like a botched landing on a roof rather than anything else … perhaps all roof landings should qualify as botched but I don’t wish to be too judgmental on a Friday afternoon…
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Was it landing or taking off? Looks like taking off to me
 
Warmi said:
It may have started as a takeoff but then turned into botched landing on a roof … :)
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Hah, y’all read the report? It started as a landing that turned into a takeoff, that turned into a botched takeoff that resulted in a botched landing on a roof.
 
Not often you stall & spin with something right under you to safely catch you.
 
Interesting that the student started to go-around AFTER already departing the runway......damn lucky to be alive.
 
The resolution of the video is poor, but the flaps appear to be at least partially down.

Full throttle for the go around would result in a severe nose up attitude and stall at a very low airspeed. The pilot seemed to be fighting the controls, should have been trimming nose down to ease the forces on the wheel.

Drifting to the left, over the hangar, his altitude went to near zero, so the vertical portion of the impact would be low, and the stall/roll used up a lot of the forward energy, so a best of all possible impact.

Lucky pilot.
 
Lucky.

A few feet to the starboard on that final descent and I doubt it would have been survivable.

Perhaps he can add to his good fortune by obtaining an STC for a "Clipped-Wing Sky Hawk" (4 POLM?).
 
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Isn't it interesting/counterintuitive how pitching up can result in LESS climb? We know this because of our training, but your instinct is, "I'm too low, need to pull back" yet it was obvious as he either continued to pull back or was trimmed for said pitch attitude that he stopped climbing. I just find it interesting.
 
flyingpreacher said:
Isn't it interesting/counterintuitive how pitching up can result in LESS climb? We know this because of our training, but your instinct is, "I'm too low, need to pull back" yet it was obvious as he either continued to pull back or was trimmed for said pitch attitude that he stopped climbing. I just find it interesting.
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My first instructor taught me that one of the hardest things to do is see the ground coming and push forward ...
 
geezer said:
Full throttle for the go around would result in a severe nose up attitude and stall at a very low airspeed. The pilot seemed to be fighting the controls, should have been trimming nose down to ease the forces on the wheel.
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Yes, it will pitch up with the addition of full power, but it is not hard to control it without the need to trim immediately. We teach Cram power, Control pitch, Climb, Clean up and Communicate. I wonder how many go-arounds the student had practiced.
 
Could it have started life as a normal touch and go. Pilot landed, flipped the flap switch to "up", poured the coal to it, and the flaps didn't retract? A 172 will climb (albeit slowly) with flaps deployed, but you gotta get that nose down, waaay down. I learned this as a student doing touch and go, and the electric flaps failed to retract. Not enough runway left to land, so I just flew the pattern with 40 degrees of flaps, and landed, taxied to MX, and left it with them.
 
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