cessna parking?

Shawn said:
OK...we have all heard to fly into the top canopy of trees if that is your only engine out option and it will soften the blow.

Honesty though while good idea in theory it was complete and utter BS in reality.

I stand corrected.
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The guy was 80. So the answer is...it depends.
 
It struck me as a stall, quasi spin. (Speculation - what we do best here) I think he may have come in high and flared and got slow and didn't quite recover. Definitely a lucky outcome. Going around might have been a better choice. Of course, there may be other factors I am not aware of...
 
John221us said:
It struck me as a stall, quasi spin. (Speculation - what we do best here) I think he may have come in high and flared and got slow and didn't quite recover. Definitely a lucky outcome. Going around might have been a better choice. Of course, there may be other factors I am not aware of...
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Actually based on the location, I would hazard a guess that this was a go around, where the pilot got in the area of reverse command and never recovered.

Tim
 
I'm thinking like some others, he got behind the power curve taking off or executing a go-around and left turning tendencies had him 90 degrees to the runway, way behind the curve, hanging on the prop. I see flaps extended, maybe a touch & go gone bad??? I dunno.
 
From an eyewitness at the airport, whatever that's worth.

Dave Thayer, of Bristol, who frequently visits Robertson to watch landings and takeoffs, was near the northern end of the airport’s parking lot when he saw a plane landing from the south. Thayer said it was very low and approaching from the south, but suddenly turned west — away from the runway.

“I knew he had a problem. It was wavering, it was going very slow,” Thayer said. “I heard the bang and knew that he went down.”​

http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-plainville-plane-crash-20170911-story.html
 
ElPaso Pilot said:
From an eyewitness at the airport, whatever that's worth.

Dave Thayer, of Bristol, who frequently visits Robertson to watch landings and takeoffs, was near the northern end of the airport’s parking lot when he saw a plane landing from the south. Thayer said it was very low and approaching from the south, but suddenly turned west — away from the runway.

“I knew he had a problem. It was wavering, it was going very slow,” Thayer said. “I heard the bang and knew that he went down.”​

http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-plainville-plane-crash-20170911-story.html
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Botched go-around perhaps?
 
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