Icing accident 4 survive westTx

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Apparently 3/4" of ice on Bonanza late last week, on approach.
Weather has been really good with spells of 'awful' with each cold front this winter.
Pilot impacted instr panel; needed major surgery on cranium.
Decent trauma to Bo, having engine ripped off.


http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f...Y_NAME,P95_REGIST_NBR:05-FEB-15,ANDREWS,N29AC

http://sanangelolive.com/news/crashes/2015-02-05/four-injured-beech-bonanza-plane-crash

http://cbs7.com/news/article_7aeaffac-ad4b-11e4-aadf-1f0f2ff4080f.html
 

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From my experience and research, no power changes should be made once ice has accumulated on thee surfaces of your plane.

It said he reduced power on final.


So if you're coming in at 100+ knots do you just keep the speed and hope the runway is long enough? That's my best guess.


Glad they all survived.
 
Not often you see the pilot still seated in the aircraft being tended to.
 
Reminds me of the crash late last December near Vaughn NM, but with more fortunate results.
A word to the wise - we have these frontal systems that pass thru West Texas in the winter that just don't easily mesh with flying small planes.
I'm too much of a low time pilot to understand decision to fly/risk management/critical mission reasoning by some pilots in this part of the country.
I know flying our piston singles aren't just limited to clear skies, but folks seem to be crashing with some regularity out here in these accurately forecasted nasty winter weather fronts.
 
Is there any way to get historical SkewT's?

I wonder if he lowered the flaps.....
 
WOW......
At lease they survived, hope they were not to badly hurt.
 
What is it with the Bonanza and Dr's....:dunno:

Glad everyone is alive. The weather has not been great in Texas the last couple weeks...even if I had an instrument rating most of the days I guarantee I wouldn't have been doing any flying...
 
kenjr said:
What is it with the Bonanza and Dr's....:dunno:
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Price point and performance. They can afford a $250k bird and the insurance, it carries 6 people and has close to top end performance in the single engine catagory before having to step into a twin or small turbine.
 
Hard to tell, did he drop flaps?
 
SmashTime said:
From my experience and research, no power changes should be made once ice has accumulated on thee surfaces of your plane.

It said he reduced power on final.


So if you're coming in at 100+ knots do you just keep the speed and hope the runway is long enough? That's my best guess.


Glad they all survived.
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Yup, pretty much. Get it as clean as possible and don't make any configuration changes, then just fly it to the ground with power. If the runway isn't long enough, oh well; I'll take going off the end of the runway at 30kts over what happened here any day...
 
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What is it with the Bonanza and Dr's
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Did it mention somewhere that this was a Dr? If so I missed it. My friend who flies in the area says it was a professional pilot; flies KingAirs for a living.
 
Oh, I see - someone looked up the registration.
Yes it is owned by a Dr.
The airplane was apparently on loan.
 
Cranial injury on panel...no shoulder belts? You'd think a doctor would know better.
 
That was a hard hit. With no shoulder belt that would have been one helluva smack to the head. Hope he is okay. So it was a professional pilot?
 
One thing about West Texas, no trees to hit when doing an off-field landing.
 
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