cessna parking?

[SixPapaCharlie]

 

[mscard88]

Whoa, or is it weee....

 

[TRocket]

Holy Crap

 

[RyanB]

Well, at least the tree absorbed some of the impact...

 

[Stingray Don]

Wow, what's the story on that?

 

[azblackbird]

I see your Cessna and raise you a Corvette...

 

[iflyvfr]

Not a bad technique: fly the bottom of one wing into the tree and let the canopy absorb the impact. Bet he meant to do that.

 

[Shawn]

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.

 

[Skyrys62]

Did he give his keys to the valet at the airport?

 

[StevieTimes]

"OK, please try to remember where we parked."

 

[asicer]

Did he give his keys to the valet at the airport?

That tall green tree-looking creature was the valet.

 

[rtk11]

Did he give his keys to the valet at the airport?

 

[GRG55]

Hold my beer, and watch this...

 

[NoHeat]

Demonstrating that if you gotta crash, it's best to put it down in a parking lot right next to a big dumpster trailer.

That way, not only is disposal of the wreckage convenient, it's also easy for the Lyft driver to find his way to your location, for your ride home.

 

[frfly172]

That's a tight turns around a point,maneuver.

 

[ElPaso Pilot]

Here's the news story.

http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-plainville-plane-crash-20170911-story.html

 

[Mike Smith]

Can we begin speculating yet?

 

[RyanB]

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=199609

At first glance I thought it was an engine failure to forced landing, but none of the news articles mention that. Apparently just a landing attempt to the airport?

 

[Skip Miller]

The news article states clearly that this was a landing, not a crash! I guess that's progress. Now for the airmanship part....

A video released by the town Monday afternoon shows the plane flying low, hitting a tree and then landing in the parking lot.

 

[NoHeat]

Can we begin speculating yet?

Sure.

Cause was hitting tree and terrain.

Contributing factors: pilot was low, slow, and old.

 

[NoHeat]

The news article states clearly that this was a landing,

It landed, in the same way that if you dropped an object from your hand it then landed on the ground.

But it was not a landing.

 

[Sac Arrow]

He's double parked.

 

[paflyer]

OK, kids, we're here!!

 

[paflyer]

Well, at least the tree absorbed some of the impact...

Maybe that was the plan. If so, I'm duly impressed.

 

[GRG55]

He's double parked.

Not if he's in the larger handicapped spot.

Maybe he was testing a new variation of "The Impossible Turn"?

 

[Sac Arrow]

Not if he's in the larger handicapped spot.

Maybe he was testing a new variation of "The Impossible Turn"?

He probably just qualified for the handicapped spot.

 

[luvflyin]

He was calibrating the new AOA

 

[FormerHangie]

Any chance the pilot's name was George?

 

[Stingray Don]

Found the spot where he "landed". It is west of the airport and he would have been flying perpendicular to the runway when he hit the tree.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/robertson+airport/@41.6890127,-72.8679727,350m/data=!3m1!1e3

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

Found the spot where he "landed". It is west of the airport and he would have been flying perpendicular to the runway when he hit the tree.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/robertson+airport/@41.6890127,-72.8679727,350m/data=!3m1!1e3

Well Good Lord!
Nobody knows how to park at that airport.

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

And what on earth is that Rutan thing on the ramp?

 

[RyanB]

He was calibrating the new AOA

And boy was it out of whack, phew!

 

[Skyrys62]

And what on earth is that Rutan thing on the ramp?

and the 3 ghost planes are freaky looking..

 

[SkyDog58]

Found the spot where he "landed". It is west of the airport and he would have been flying perpendicular to the runway when he hit the tree.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/robertson+airport/@41.6890127,-72.8679727,350m/data=!3m1!1e3

OMG! There are two airplanes on the runway at the same time.

 

[Clark1961]

And what on earth is that Rutan thing on the ramp?

What is a velocity?

 

[Skip Miller]

It landed, in the same way that if you dropped an object from your hand it then landed on the ground.

Yabut I am (we are) used to a successful engine out landing with no damage called a Crash. This is better!

 

[azblackbird]

Coordinates for crash site. 41.688989, -72.867074

How he ended up there I have no idea.

 

[Matthew]

Nailed it!

 

[Stingray Don]

 

[Mike Smith]

Not sure how he ended up there, almost 90 degrees to the runway. I circled the tree he hit.