Taiwan plane cartwheels into river after hiting bridge
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Taiwan plane cartwheels into river after hiting bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffvo0JxuIqw
Looks like the pilot was trying hard to clear the building on the left before stalling into the river. Very sad.
Looks like the pilot was trying hard to clear the building on the left before stalling into the river. Very sad.
Last edited by basimpsn; 02-04-2015 at 05:04 AM.
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Yeah he's lucky. Looks like the plane had a wing stall. Why the stall, that's the big question which will probably be answered if they can get data from the plane. It's a prop jobber and this did happen in Taiwan so no telling if that plane had a functional black box on board.
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Yeah it looked like a VMC demonstration. In full scale multi-engine stuff, all the various minimum and maximum air speeds are labeled as "V" speeds. VMC is minimum single engine control speed. If you drop under that speed with only one engine putting out power, the aircraft will initially pull to the dead engine and you cannot override that asymmetric thrust with the control surfaces. As the problem progresses, the aircraft will roll into the dead engine and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it then unless you are way high.
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Looks like the plane had very little airspeed. Resembles how it looked back when I was first getting into r/c when I was a kid and came in for a landing way to slow and the plane was right at the stall speed only a few yards off the deck. Watching that video, looks like the plane was nice and level coming in for what appeared to be the same a very smooth controlled landing. But once that plane slowed, it stalled. Looks like it stalled roughly 50 or so feet over the bridge.
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Yeah he's lucky. Looks like the plane had a wing stall. Why the stall, that's the big question which will probably be answered if they can get data from the plane. It's a prop jobber and this did happen in Taiwan so no telling if that plane had a functional black box on board.
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to gain airspeed and altitude only then could he turn safely and then only toward the dead engine.
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I just marvel at the uninformed things written here. In all transport category airplanes, including the ATR, Vmc is below V2, which is the single engine, best rate of climb speed. All transport category airplanes will climb with an engine out, provided they are at or below the max takeoff weight for the ambient conditions. It is illegal in the US to take off above that weight, and I find it hard to believe that any carrier, worldwide would do so. There is obviously more to this story, and it is in extremely poor taste to second guess what happened here.
God bless the crew, passengers, and their families.
Erik
God bless the crew, passengers, and their families.
Erik
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I hate it for the ones that were lost. This is a problem when every you build a city around an airport. Yes it is nice for the traveler but when it goes wrong the results usually are bad unless you name is Capt Sulley. If they would have took off somewere in an open terrian he may could have don't everything everyone is suggesting and even made it back to the airport.
Put your self in the pilot seat.
They did their best to avoid everything they could with all the buildings and terrain.
If you really look at the damage it was small and some lives were saved.
What if he would have hit one of the buildings. We have seen what happens then. Fire, people on the ground and in the building killed.
He managed to get lucky enought to hit water.
That save a lot of live to cushion the hit and keep the fires away.
Prayers to all involved.
Put your self in the pilot seat.
They did their best to avoid everything they could with all the buildings and terrain.
If you really look at the damage it was small and some lives were saved.
What if he would have hit one of the buildings. We have seen what happens then. Fire, people on the ground and in the building killed.
He managed to get lucky enought to hit water.
That save a lot of live to cushion the hit and keep the fires away.
Prayers to all involved.
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Turbine powered stuff does have a better single engine capability, but as already noted, when heavy and who knows at this point how heavy he was in relation to the AC's gross weight, 'ain't nothing going to fly very well immediately after takeoff.
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That's why there are so many more fatalities in twin engine aircraft crashes where losing an engine was the primary cause. Single engine stuff gives you no choice but to land and best do that straight ahead as mentioned. With twins, when you lose an engine guys get messing around trying to restart the dead engine and forget the first rule of an emergency; fly the airplane.
Turbine powered stuff does have a better single engine capability, but as already noted, when heavy and who knows at this point how heavy he was in relation to the AC's gross weight, 'ain't nothing going to fly very well immediately after takeoff.
Turbine powered stuff does have a better single engine capability, but as already noted, when heavy and who knows at this point how heavy he was in relation to the AC's gross weight, 'ain't nothing going to fly very well immediately after takeoff.
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Maybe because it appears no one wants to post any good RC Jetstuff like video, pictures and information due to the all the negative responses to either their building ideas, or what they choose to buy and fly,Where and how they fly or that their grammar and spelling is never correct or proper.
I just don’t understand either why we have threads like this one.
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Yeah it looked like a VMC demonstration. In full scale multi-engine stuff, all the various minimum and maximum air speeds are labeled as "V" speeds. VMC is minimum single engine control speed. If you drop under that speed with only one engine putting out power, the aircraft will initially pull to the dead engine and you cannot override that asymmetric thrust with the control surfaces. As the problem progresses, the aircraft will roll into the dead engine and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it then unless you are way high.
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A statement from a fellow pilot and FAA Examiner - You can take all the black boxes, red boxes and any color boxes, but unless you are actually sitting in one of the pilot seats when the incident occurs, you will really never know what happened !
Simple, simple ...............
I love all the second guessers and Monday night quarter backs !
After a career in aviation, I have lost track of how many times I have been asked after an aviation accident, " What do you think happened ? What do you think caused it ? ".
Got really tired of stating, how the heck would I know, I was not in the cockpit flying the aircraft !
Yes it is sad that people lost their lives and my thoughts and prayers go out to those folks, as I have lost so many good friends in aviation accidents. One time in one family, the father and his two sons were all killed in aviation accidents. Notice I said accidents, because they were all separate accidents.
Lets just have good thoughts for the folks that have lost their lives and the loved ones that are suffering because of this incident. And stop the second guessing !
Simple, simple ...............
I love all the second guessers and Monday night quarter backs !
After a career in aviation, I have lost track of how many times I have been asked after an aviation accident, " What do you think happened ? What do you think caused it ? ".
Got really tired of stating, how the heck would I know, I was not in the cockpit flying the aircraft !
Yes it is sad that people lost their lives and my thoughts and prayers go out to those folks, as I have lost so many good friends in aviation accidents. One time in one family, the father and his two sons were all killed in aviation accidents. Notice I said accidents, because they were all separate accidents.
Lets just have good thoughts for the folks that have lost their lives and the loved ones that are suffering because of this incident. And stop the second guessing !