lost electrical

[redbaron1982]

I feel sorry for the pilot, you can hear him saying "it was my mistake" or something like that right after crashing.

This would have been sooo preventable, just extending downwind a little bit or, in short final, just going around and landing 2 minutes later.

I'm sure the guy got scared, thought he had an emergency and had to land as soon as possible.

[haymak3r]

It is really infuriating to me that there are pilots out there that don't have the ADM to go around with something like this. Complacency is a killer. We are held to a higher standard. In my opinion this plane was completely flyable still, and there is absolutely no excuse as to why this pilot didn't simply go around. Even if somebody has zero knowledge of engines or anything else mechanical, we are literally taught in the first few weeks of private pilot training about aircraft systems. How does one forget that an engine can still run just fine with the master switch off. 

While my emergency checklist does not have a specific "Electrical outage", it has Electrical Fire, Alt high volts, and alt low volts. All 3 of these say "land as soon as PRACTICABLE. NOT ASAP whether the runway is clear or not... 

Sorry for the rant, but this so far, takes the cake on the worst decision making I have seen so far, being a pilot myself.

[1980Mooney]

36 minutes ago, redbaron1982 said:

I feel sorry for the pilot, you can hear him saying "it was my mistake" or something like that right after crashing.

This would have been sooo preventable, just extending downwind a little bit or, in short final, just going around and landing 2 minutes later.

I'm sure the guy got scared, thought he had an emergency and had to land as soon as possible.

 

9 minutes ago, haymak3r said:

It is really infuriating to me that there are pilots out there that don't have the ADM to go around with something like this. Complacency is a killer. We are held to a higher standard. In my opinion this plane was completely flyable still, and there is absolutely no excuse as to why this pilot didn't simply go around. Even if somebody has zero knowledge of engines or anything else mechanical, we are literally taught in the first few weeks of private pilot training about aircraft systems. How does one forget that an engine can still run just fine with the master switch off. 

While my emergency checklist does not have a specific "Electrical outage", it has Electrical Fire, Alt high volts, and alt low volts. All 3 of these say "land as soon as PRACTICABLE. NOT ASAP whether the runway is clear or not... 

Sorry for the rant, but this so far, takes the cake on the worst decision making I have seen so far, being a pilot myself.

If you listened to the passenger's interview with Channel 11 on the prior page, he said they had to jump start the plane before taking off from Pearland.  However, they had just landed at Pearland about 45 minutes earlier.  Either the pilot left the all electronics on while at Pearland, or  his alternator had failed earlier and he was running on the battery when he landed at Pearland.

Not sure who was flying but the owner of the plane is 69 years old per internet.  Also FAA Airman shows no medical information.  AviationDB shows that his medical expired in 2017.  

Incident Grumman American AA-5 Traveler N5450L, Wednesday 11 December 2024

Incident Cessna 182T Skylane N127SL, Wednesday 11 December 2024

[Echo]

Blanco covered this very well in a two-part video.  The ONLY one I feel "sorry for" in this scenario is the pilot in the Cessna that was rear-ended for a non-emergency.  Can you imagine losing your plane like this?  Do better.

Jump started before flight?  Face palm.

ONLY saving grace for "pilot" is dumb luck that he didn't kill anyone.

Similar to running perfectly good airplane out of fuel and resultant off field landing.

Feel sorry for the pilot?  NOPE.