Mooney down, no injuries Ocala

[Eight8Victor]

https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2022/06/15/plane-makes-emergency-landing-west-marion-county-florida/7636276001/

Local flight school trainer with student and instructor aboard.

Edited June 15, 2022 by Eight8Victor

[201er]

Sounds like they landed in a field ok.

The FAA will be investigating whether or not a flight plan had been filed.

[mike_elliott]

I wonder if this is the E the flight school had at Ocala

[tim417]

News says minimal damage to the aircraft and no injuries. That is great news!

[larrynimmo]

9 hours ago, 201er said:

Sounds like they landed in a field ok.

The FAA will be investigating whether or not a flight plan had been filed.

Why does that matter? Just curious…

[Eight8Victor]

10 hours ago, mike_elliott said:

I wonder if this is the E the flight school had at Ocala

Yes, it belongs to Ocala Aviation. 

 

[carusoam]

58 minutes ago, larrynimmo said:

Why does that matter? Just curious…

I think there is a missing  At the end of 201er’s poke at the FAA and printed media….

-a-

[cferr59]

10 hours ago, 201er said:

Sounds like they landed in a field ok.

The FAA will be investigating whether or not a flight plan had been filed.

I would hope they were not flying around without a flight plan.

[Hank]

20 minutes ago, cferr59 said:

I would hope they were not flying around without a flight plan.

Why do you say that? My primary CFI showed me how, and as a student I filed only for my Ling XC. Since then, I've only filed when IFR. When I went VFR to Yellowstone and back, three days each way, I used flight following but didn't "file" anything. I seem to have survived . . . .

[Eight8Victor]

It appears they lost the engine at 3000 feet and made a turn toward X35.  They were roughly 10 nm north of X35 and ended up a little under 5 miles from Dunnellon, Marion county.  Rough numbers but still  a 10 to 1 glide ratio. I wonder if the engine was completely gone or if was producing some power?

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N79350/history/20220615/1512Z/KOCF/L 29.11931 -82.35892

 

[Tony Starke]

25 minutes ago, Hank said:

Why do you say that? My primary CFI showed me how, and as a student I filed only for my Ling XC. Since then, I've only filed when IFR. When I went VFR to Yellowstone and back, three days each way, I used flight following but didn't "file" anything. I seem to have survived . . . .

You might consider removing this post from a public forum. At the very least file a NASA form.

[cferr59]

35 minutes ago, Hank said:

Why do you say that? My primary CFI showed me how, and as a student I filed only for my Ling XC. Since then, I've only filed when IFR. When I went VFR to Yellowstone and back, three days each way, I used flight following but didn't "file" anything. I seem to have survived . . . .

The post I was quoting appeared to have a joke about filing a flight plan. My post was similarly not serious.

[Rusty Pilot]

12 hours ago, 201er said:

Sounds like they landed in a field ok.

The FAA will be investigating whether or not a flight plan had been filed.

Are you suggesting a flight plan is needed for local training?  Why, is this controlled airspace?

[Hank]

1 hour ago, Tony Starke said:

You might consider removing this post from a public forum. At the very least file a NASA form.

Do what??? You do realize that VFR flights do not require flight plans, even inside Class B, C, D and E airspace? Only in the outer ring of TFRs and the DC exclusion whose name keeps changing. 

[eman1200]

the internet never ceases to amaze me.

[Steve0715]

26 minutes ago, eman1200 said:

the internet never ceases to amaze me.

Some have better sarcasm meters than others 

[steingar]

Didn't think anyone could get insurance to use a Mooney to train anyone to do anything.  Gets expensive quickly.

[philiplane]

Planes crash due to lack of flight plans, or lack of a control tower, or from hitting "air pockets". Every reporter knows that....

Edited June 16, 2022 by philiplane

[Eight8Victor]

Just now, philiplane said:

Planes crash only due to lack of flight plans, or lack of a control tower, or from hitting "air pockets". Every reporter knows that....

...and when the engine stalls.

[ArtVandelay]

17 hours ago, Eight8Victor said:

https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2022/06/15/plane-makes-emergency-landing-west-marion-county-florida/7636276001/

Local flight school trainer with student and instructor aboard.

What a terrible website…all the junk (ADs, popup videos, etc)…..yuk.

[Wildhorsetrail]

6 hours ago, Eight8Victor said:

...and when the engine stalls.

And when the engine stalls they just fall out of the sky.

[Eight8Victor]

4 hours ago, ArtVandelay said:

What a terrible website…all the junk (ADs, popup videos, etc)…..yuk.

Yes, they are owned by Gannett and prior to that the New York times. Typical left wing rag that has lost most of their credibility along with tens of thousands of subscribers and tens of millions in ad revenue. 

[A64Pilot]

Sounds more like an incident as opposed to accident.

Incidents are often not investigated, unless things have changed.

About 5 or 10 miles from my house, ought to go see tomorrow 

[Ragsf15e]

While I don’t wish an investigation on the aircrew, it would actually be nice if these “minor” ones resulting from loss of power were investigated.  The airplane is in perfect condition and the aircrew are alive for interviews.  It should be really easy to determine cause and get us better statistics/safety.  

When the loss of power is at night/imc and the same airplane impacts a hillside at high velocity, the resulting investigation takes a long time and is much more difficult to find the cause.

[TonyK]

Happy ending and at least the news didn't call it a Cezzna type aircraft.