It's Raining Planes :-(

[M016576]

Id like to see a Gopro video of a Mooney in a 60 degree bank aggravated stall.

That can be arranged...

[fantom]

 

SUMMERFIELD, Florida:

 

Two people are dead after their small plane crashed while they were filming a zombie movie in Florida. Marion County sheriff's officials say the plane went down about 8 p.m. Sunday in Summerfield, near Ocala. The sheriff's office has not released the names of the victims. They say the passenger was filming a scene involving an airplane in a low-budget zombie movie being shot in Summerfield.

 

Witnesses told deputies the plane banked a turn over the filming site before it stalled. The plane went down nose first. The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the crash.

[DaV8or]

The estate of the dead pilot is getting sued for sure. Illegal commercial ops in and experimental. Big no-no. From what I read elsewhere, it sounded like the pilot and his plane where actors in this film. Perhaps slow (evidenced by the flaps out) and low to get the shot, while acting at the same time proved to be too much. It was a low budget film and you get what you pay for. However in this case, they will be paying until there is no more to pay. Real aerial photo work by real professionals costs real big bucks.

[fantom]

Citation Jet @ Spruce Creek got very wet. Nobody hurt reportedly.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=165805

[carusoam]

Spruce Creek. Runway length 4,000' long....

-a-

[fantom]

Last man out closes the door.....right?

 

The Cessna CitationJet CJ3 (msn 525B-0014 / N300ET, built in 2005) over-ran the runway at Spruce Creek, Florida, coming to rest in a retention pond. The aircraft was on its second flight of the day, having flown first from Orlando Sanford Airport to Opa-Locka Airport in the North Miami suburbs. It then departed Opa-Locka bound for Spruce Creek with three persons on board, when the aircraft failed to stop, ran off the end of the runway and ended up in a pond.

 

Local law officials confirmed that none of the three people on board the aircraft during the accident sustained any injuries.

The $3 million aircraft was later removed from the pond by a local towing company. (Proparbly caused more damage than the over-run)

 

Spruce Creek is one of the largest residential fly-in communities, with almost as many hangars as homes.

[DaV8or]

Spruce Creek is one of the largest residential fly-in communities, with almost as many hangars as homes.

 

Note to rich guys- Jets are very much less impressive to your neighbors when you park them like this. Try to keep it on the pavement, remember the yacht goes in the water, not the plane.

[PTK]

Here's another one. RIP. Prayers and thoughts with the family.

http://m.kcra.com/news/plane-crashes-at-travis-afb-air-show-in-fairfield/25806746

[fantom]

Mystery Airplane Found in Lake Norman

 

 

 

 

Firefighters from the Charlotte Fire Department got a big surprise several months ago as they tested sonar equipment in Lake Norman, a large lake northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina. According to local news outlets, the firefighters found an airplane resting on the bottom of the lake.

 

As some of the firefighters took a closer look by diving to the airplane, which was submerged nearly 100 feet below the surface, they found a small single-engine airplane. They were unable to open the airplane, but there was no apparent evidence of human remains. The N-number of the airplane was reported to the FAA, which is investigating who the owner might be.

 

A woman named Barbara Anderson from Cornelius told WSOC-TV that she lost a seaplane more than 30 years ago when a pilot failed to retract the landing gear before landing the airplane on the lake. Anderson spent thousands of dollars attempting to find the airplane, but was never able to locate it. 

 

Whether the mystery airplane belongs to Anderson or somebody else remains to be seen. Anyone know more about this?

 

At least it isn't a Mooney

[DaV8or]

Why do firefighters need sonar equipment??? The N number should have told them exactly what happened with two minute internet search, unless it's really old.

[carusoam]

For finding invisible undersea fires....

It's hard to fight them when you don't know where they are?

Probably works equally well in 12 feet of murky water when a car departs a road and ends up 'somewhere' in a river.

Where are the 'floats'?

Go technology development!

Best regards,

-a-

[pinerunner]

If not for one stupid little tree he might have had no damage at all. Good flying to get down on the dirt road.

Please be careful up there, towers or no towers!

 

 

HOMESTEAD, FL

 

A small plane went down on Southwest 168th Street and 214th Avenue Thursday morning but the pilot and passenger got out safely.

 

The flight instructor said the plane had an engine malfunction, forcing them to land on Southwest 168th Street, where the plane came to a stop in some trees. The plane could be seen sitting on the side of a dirt road.. The right wing was damaged.

 

An air rescue helicopter landed at the scene, but the pilot and passenger refused treatment, police say.

 

This is the latest in a recent wave of aircraft crashes and emergency landings in South Florida. On Wednesday afternoon, two people were killed when a helicopter crashed just after it left Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport.

 

On Tuesday, a small plane made an emergency landing on U.S. 27.

 

On March 17, a pilot landed his single-engine Cessna on US-27 near Griffin Road after a mechanical problem.

 

On March 16, three people were killed when a Piper PA-31T (Cheyenne) crashed shortly after take off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.

[fantom]

....and the rain continues:

One man died in the crash of a small plane into the water off Elliott Key on Sunday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade police.

The plane, a Cessna 172, crashed at about 3:25 p.m. into about 10 feet of water 200 yards off the ocean side of Elliott Key, police said.

The man, who was not immediately identified so that his relatives could be notified first, was piloting the plane and was the only person on board, police believe. His body was retrieved from the water by divers, and brought back to Black Point Marina on a police boat.

Miami-Dade police continued their investigation Sunday night, and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash as well.

Tom and Ellen Romanowski were enjoying a calm ride out on the water in their brother-in-law’s boat when they saw the plane plunge from the sky.

It was “like a kamikaze pilot,” Tom Romanowski said, plummeting so fast that it was gone in what seemed like a blink of an eye.

“It just went straight down — didn’t try to pull up on the throttle. The wings didn’t flutter, nothing,” Romanowski said.

Miami-Dade police said they did not know what caused the crash. The federal investigators will arrive Monday, police said.

Though some at Black Point Marina speculated that the crash happened after the pilot tried to perform an aerial stunt, the Romanowskis said they did not see any such tricks.

RIP

[rbridges]

sounds like pilot may have been incapacitated.

[Marauder]

sounds like pilot may have been incapacitated.

Or a suicide...

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[flyboy0681]

It was reported by some witnesses that he was doing maneuvers. My take is he was doing some practice work and was too low to recover from whatever he got himself into.

[carusoam]

The witness meant what???

Pull up on the throttle= ?

The wings didn't flutter= ?

I hope nobody paid to buy this amateur paper.

Sorry for the lost pilot / family,

-a-

[FloridaMan]

There was another one today when I was walking back to VNC from the beach. When we got back to the FBO, the lady at the desk was coordinating things with a Piper that declared an emergency and couldn't make it to the field. According to the news, the pilot and passenger were uninjured, but a father with his young girl was killed on the beach and her mother is now in the hospital for cardiac arrest. 

[Mooneymite]

There but for the grace of God go I, but I just can't imagine not scooching out into the surf if there were people on the beach . . .

 

I suspect if the pilot saw the family on the beach, it was after he could do anything about it.  It's hard to imagine not doing whatever you could to avoid hitting someone on the ground.

 

Can you imagine the angst the pilot is suffering now?

 

He probably wishes he'd died instead of the person he hit.  No amount of insurance will fix that.

[fantom]

Horrible for all involved. I suspect another case of timid pilot in a bad situation. May the family, what's left of it, find peace.

All the Mike Busch seminars and oil analysis in the world will not help at all if you're not completely competent with emergency procedures when things go to poop. Regular tough recurrently training beats a forth GPS any day of the week, and could save both your butt and your estate much quicker!

[PTK]

There but for the grace of God go I, but I just can't imagine not scooching out into the surf if there were people on the beach . . .

This is just horrible. May the unfortunate father rest in peace and rapid recovery to his widow and his little daughter.

This is a huge one against GA. Planes aren't just falling out of the sky, they're also hitting people...walking on the beach!

Prayers also to the pilot. He'll need them. Next to impossible to have any sympathy for him. Put it in the water, not on the people!

What was he thinking! Save the plane? Didn't feel like swimming that day?

I certainly wouldn't want to be walking on the beach with my family and have a plane run us down!

[ArtVandelay]

This is just horrible. May the unfortunate father rest in peace and rapid recovery to his widow and his little daughter.

 

And it's not getting any better...his 9 yr old daughter has died.

[PMcClure]

Another, close to home. 

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/07/4_injured_when_small_plane_cra.html

[ArtVandelay]

Another, close to home.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/07/4_injured_when_small_plane_cra.html

Thankfully they survived, once again it's the fire afterwards that is the true killer.

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[Marauder]

After take-off, complete darkness- 10pm, a 172RG near Cleveland. No survivors; would-be rescuers say the flames were already too intense by the time they arrived.

Four people in a 172? Maybe they didn't have luggage or full tanks? Maybe? Maybe it was engine problems, people say they heard the plane "struggling?"

http://www.windstream.net/news/read/category/Top%20News/article/the_associated_press-report_4_dead_in_ohio_plane_crash-ap

Yeah, sad situation. 4 college kids. PoA site has more details.