And a stall is accelerating to terminal speed… like heading toward a wall with no brakes, and hitting the gas.

I was amazed at his indifference to the stall warning indicator. 😮

He was not taught power off landings and it shows

Exactly. Deer in the headlights.

Could you imagine?? I would absolutely never trust his judgement again. I couldn’t even be friends with him again. Swore he’d be safe and he does almost everything as wrong as possible…..with my children?? Sorry, if we survive, I’m beating his ass in that field.

Airspeed is life. Altitude is life insurance

And if the fan outside stops it's when the starts to get hot and sweating.

So tired of focusing on everything else but ones job it's like texting while driving

You didn't understand it back then and you never will. You're nothing!

@@davidfelton7772 just make sure you don't get too much life insurance

Seriously

I agree

God, not luck

@@user-fy5by5xp7nok sport

​@@user-fy5by5xp7n did god also crash the plane in the first place 👀

Dude looks like an idiot. That's right, book judged by the cover.

So true, you can have a whole channel just on that subject alone.

Five minutes of fame is not worth anyone’s life. 👍

@@countys32I heard that congress is working on a bill preventing certain professions to film while performing. Pilots are number one. About time to come crashing on this fad.

There's bound to be a pattern of videos showing people making mistakes that were recording videos. This channel is about people making mistakes, and you don't get so many videos of people that weren't recording.

That's a great quote! Works for motorcycles too.

You just brought up memories of flying the T-38 out of Vance back in the early 90s after I got out of the academy.

Words to live by in all areas of life. Thank you for the quote!

Always be ahead of the Aircraft never let the Aircraft get ahead of you is what I was taught. You need to be able to see things happening before they actually happen otherwise things unravel pretty damn quickly.

"Don't ever let the airplane take you somewhere your brain wasn't at 3 minutes prior"

A sailplane instructor of mine (30+ years ago) use to shout from the trainer’s back seat “Speed is half your life!” Seems he was taught that in, German, by instructors sitting in another back seat; Germany late 1944. Lee never got to fly for the Luftwaffe, fortunately. He immigrated here to become an accomplished scientist and soaring pilot.

I had made a couple simulated engine out approaches on the south side of Palos Verdes. The next time out he cut the throttle a little east. I chose the closed Terminal Island runway. Side slipped to control speed and altitude "perfect approach." At 250 feet Instructor: See those lines on the runway they are 8 ft chain link fences they will tear this aircraft apart. Me; I will try for the clearing by the hanger. As I turn at hanger height there is a fresh plowed berm. Instructor; Pushes in the throttle GET THE HELL OUT. He assured me the berm was not there the last time. I have been low and slow with the stall warning moaning. It can happen fast and luckily did not make the 6 o'clock news.

My mother's instructor made her land in a fresh plowed bean field in a simulated engine out... then had her take back off. Instructor was a 20,000+ hrs of cropdusting pilot.

@@fhuber7507 This was in the 70's in the Los Angeles basin. The engine was not shut down. The instructor would advance the throttle a few feet above ground. This was after the incident when the fuel shutoff handle sheared with loss of student and instructor.

@@thomaswest5931Why is it unfortunate he couldn’t fly for nazis?

Or smoking meat

😂😂😂

This pilot would crash a forklift too..

@@brannonshea8424Thats good✈️✈️

😂😂😂😂

Wifee KNEW! Now the FAA has to know & ground him >>> when you get to the point where you are turning your passengers & yourself into crash test dummies pretending to be a pilot it is time for you to find another mode of transportation bcuz you are NOT WORTHY! HIS PLAN = crash the plan slowly

If I had been standing there and heard her ask that 2 times, my alarms would have started talking to me. I wouldn't have been able to get on the plane with that man flying it.

Imagine living with someone that irresponsible? I wouldn't even talk to this guy, let alone marry him.

Yeah, like they didn't really trust him from the beginning. Kinda begs the question as to WHY they didn't trust him.

Trust issues

True that.

I felt the same. I have no training or experience flying powered aircraft, I've only flown handgliders and paragliders, but that's enough for me to wonder what the heck this guy was thinking. I don't think he has the right mentality to be a pilot. Some people just shouldn't fly.

I agree. There's nothing wrong with someone who has lots of training and experience critiquing someone who acts in a foolish way. I will say as well. It's especially egregious that he specifically promises not to do anything dangerous (on camera), then immediately does something dangerous.

your kids dont like you

Even you sir are far more polite then I about what a $#%$% that $%%^ is.

(stall horn screaming in the background) This guy: "Man I need to bleed off some speed"

They could possibly use this against him in court.

@@GeneralSirDouglasMcA without a doubt they will. He is giving a play by play of how he screwed up, they will get either an accident investigator or an actual pilot (probably both) to tear his video to shreds about how many times he screwed up and didn't follow the checklist he should have memorized or what a competent pilot would do. He may actually keep his pilot's license but he will never be insured again.

Showing off in front of chicks, that never gets a guy in trouble!

​@@lonnywilcox445Oh there's a doubt. It's clear you haven't watched their videos about the crash where they thank their friend the pilot for saving their lives and even call him a hero. They have no idea that their hero was completely to blame.

I remember Zahn's airport. Lived in Copiague as a kid and used to watch the planes all the time.

Yep, they not only praised him for saving their lives, they even called him a hero. They are clueless.

This was planned! This idiot just wanted to go viral!

@@MajorCanada I think you're right. The NTSB even analyzed the video's audio to try to detect engine problems but found nothing. The engine itself also showed no signs of issues. In the end they were unable to conclude the engine was at fault, but they did blame ol' Shadrach for the crash.

Starts with WHY THE HELL did he keep putting the gear down when he KNEW he was struggling for power??? Ends with, HOW G** D*** HARD IS IT to just return to your training and follow the checklist procedures like they POUND into you through flight school??? Seriously, I think this guy's another one of the "Cowboys" who make us ALL look stupid and bad... figures he's joining the golden ages of Flying Aces and hero pilots that live from one minute to the next by the skin of their teeth... This is the era of Modern Aviation, and even in those vintage beasts of the bygone era, pilots like that are IDIOTS not "heroes"... ;o)

The two guys up front had more than minor injuries.

Well! Schould we get your licence away when you are doing a stupid thing?

YES! @@AnjektusStudio

@@geekfreak618 Don't know why you are making that comment to me.

@@AnjektusStudio You're trolling, right?

@@joelglanton6531 about what? About my first or my secound comment? Becouse it is hard to tell!. But if it is about my first comment so have not seen the authoritys pulling a certificate becouse you make a stupid miśstake. So you can gladly prue me wrong

You mean lying

@@user-bs5gl1uy4k Yep!

Unbelievable isn’t it, “engine failure, nose down”. It’s almost as if he wasn’t taught or totally disregarded engine out landings and best glide

@@josh3771 It would be interesting to pull the engine monitor data - it looked like the engine was running, but at low power.

@@dermick Was always taught a semi failed engine is many times more deadly than a total engine failure. Either way, nose down

One of the passengers was seriously injured and paralyzed for the rest his life🙄

I’m not a pilot but when the stall horn blared I wondered why he didn’t lower the nose and increase power-the engine seemed to be still producing power. Maybe improve the fuel mixture to give it more power.

Not only that, but if you’re a pilot and your entire family is basically begging you not to do something stupid and kill them, you may want to rethink your flight status because you’re probably a moron.

They were just playing up for the cameras. No wonder she dumped you'll gullible ass

That quote sounded like she was reading from a script, it seems really weird to me. What was he really planning on doing that day? Viral videos have made morons out of people.

@@justforever96 Yeah, that sounded like it was for added drama. Unless he was known to be reckless, in which case, what you said: don’t fly with him. The funny thing is that he wasn’t recklessly stunting. He just didn’t understand how to fly safely. He didn’t know the lower limits of his aircraft, for one thing. I don’t think he understood aviation physics. It seems like people are getting their PPLs by demonstrating that they can operate an aircraft without having to demonstrate that they can operate safely. His “interview” bothered me because he either didn’t understand his mistakes or didn’t want to admit them. In either case, it’s not possible to learn from your mistakes. I can relate: I don’t like to admit my mistakes. It’s a character defect of which I’m aware and working on. 😅

People who are afraid of flying will ask that of any pilot. That question/comment means nothing to the pilots ability. This line of thinking is why why there are so many issues out there when there are none. This pilot made a few mistakes, they crashed, but everyone walked away with their lives. Be thankful they lived to see another day. There is no reason to bad mouth people because they make mistakes, everyone makes them...and some day you will as well, lets just hope you don't make it and kill someone when you do it. Since they were friends, his mind was probably screaming at him to keep them safe, so his thoughts may also be causing him to second guess himself which when you are constricted for time, can make things worse. The majority of everyone out there cannot multi-task when under pressure like this. This is one of those few instances that mistakes were made, and everyone walked away with their lives. Plus your commercial pilot husband never talks to the people already boarded on the plane he is about to fly...so they cannot ask him that question. But $10 says there are at least half a dozen people on each of his flights that would ask him the same thing.

I like the way he barely references his background. he just gives other options than the course chosen for the pilots in these accidents.

I think you'll find there are more fighter pilots in the world. Not on that specific jet, but flying low and fast.

@@eskileriksson4457 i know there are, but i was just talking about the strike eagle specifically

@@quick906 Yeah, ok. And he is quite casual about it.

@@eskileriksson4457 Fighter pilots are usually psychologically screened to clear out egoistical folks and you end up with calm focused no nonsense folks

That's what makes me seriously wonder whether this was a pre-planned "emergency" for KZfaq clicks that went wrong.

@@wadesworld6250Without falling into conspiracy theory territory, some of the preflight footage about not doing anything dangerous, etc, starts to look suspicious. However, given how poorly this guy performed, I find it less likely. I can't imagine someone prepared for this situation and failed that badly.

His final commitment to crashing was refusing to put his gear up. A gear-up belly landing; everyone could have stepped out the plane & gone out to dinner that evening.

as a sailplane pilot, for me, crashing is never an option.

I'm surprised how many times this KZfaqr decided to stop the video just to talk.

You got that right!

exactly I think it is criminal charges should be filed and revoke

Every airport is filled with airplanes owned and operated by Narcissists. I'm not against people who an inflated sense of self worth per se. But they do have a proclivity to crashing airplanes while attempting to prove they are the exception to laws of physics and reality itself. (As entertaining as Narcissists can be, there is a point of no return with NPD where its an actual mental emotional disorder, recently had the misfortune of dating an NPD and it took till the middle of the third date to fully realize what level of nonsenseisist I was up against).

All correct. In fact," the Board of Inquiry will give him such a pranging, he'll be lucky if he gets to wear the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant!"- Grp. Capt Lionel Mandrake😂

There was no engine issue according to them. Pilot error

There's always some old guy who keeps their hot rods, etc, in a garage and only starts the engine and does maintenance to keep it running.

I watched the KZfaq family's recovery videos. They had a long road.

They're not that damn expensive.

@@fredspofford most people I know can't afford one lol. Once you manage to get financing you gotta insure it, maintain it, do annuals and the list goes on. God forbid there's any upcoming or already due ADs. Aircraft ownership is definitely not cheap though the costs definitely vary greatly depending on a multitude of factors. Aircraft production in the US continues to decline with the exception possibly of Cessnas for 141 flight schools still in popular demands thanks to stupid government bailouts and bad policy.

@@fredspofford By an large aircraft are far too expensive for anyone making anything close to the median income unless they have special arrangements

Wow!

Reminds me of the movie The Martian. They had to leave the planet because of 150 mph wind on a planet that has 1% of the atmosphere we have. Doubt you would even feel 150 mph wind in atmosphere that thin, so at that altitude you really need to do some math.

I have a strong belief that all he really needed to do was push the throttle forward. He'd have picked up speed and just continued flying.

You really don't think that was the first thing he tried?@@KenFullman

that area was at 9000 ft and the airport elevation is at 5200 ft.

im still gobsmacked that his landing strategy was to deliberately stall the plane

@@michaelspunich7273 He was low, got hit with a headwind which slowed the aircrafts progress across the ground. (even though it's airspeed that keeps the plane aloft, not groundspeed). He then found he wasn't getting the expected acceleration from the engine (because he was heavy and experiencing a headwind) So he jumped to the conclusion that he was not going to be able to keep the plane flying. He then committed himself to landing the plane. As part of this committment he decided to keep the plane barely above stall speed. Even though his airspeed was likely much healthier than he believed (due to the headwind). But by committing to get the airspeed as slow as possible, he sealed their fate.

Absolutely agree. Hard to know if his ego or his mouth is his worst enemy.

...for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. *-Luke 6:45* ³ A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. *-Proverbs 26:3*

I think he’s just doing it from his hospital bed to say, look at me, I’m injured.

dumb thru and thru..should be revoked permanately!

I have taken several fireaarm self-defense courses. You NEVER talk to a cop after an incidence save the absolute basics required as name and address. REgaardless of how the cop "feels", you wait for your attorney.

Amen! Well said!

I’m no pilot but it looked extremely easy to keep gliding the plane to a relatively soft landing. THIS GUY LOOKS STUPID AND IT SHOWED. I would be SOOO PISSED if I was roped into getting on that plane…

Totally correct!

This is why they changed the terminology here in the UK relating to collisions involving cars. They used to call them RTA's, Road Traffic Accidents but now use the term RTC, Road Traffic Collision on the basis that there is no such thing as an accident. An accident infers a single event and cause. There is always a chain of events, both recent and historical that lead up to the final outcome and some or all of those events are usually preventable and would have led to a very different outcome. Understanding that chain of events is critical in preventing repeat occurrences.

The guy probably got his pilots license 🪪 revoked

It actually didn’t work out. Front passenger had a spinal injury from this and is permanently disabled as a result.

@@banjo2019I’m not liking that

That sickening feeling when the engine failed paled significantly to the one they felt when he stalled the plane out at 50+ feet in the air, I imagine!!!

​@@banjo2019everyone is disabled these days

Extremely irresponsible pilot who should NEVER hold a pilots license again and the passengers should sue him for everything he owns. It's pilots like this clown that reflects poorly on general aviation pilots as a whole.

I’ve experienced that issue in the 206. You’re right on.

Yes, you are right on. In my T210K, fuel not used in the injection process is being sent back to the header tanks, more often than not boiling, the tanks are only about 1/2 gallon or less under the floor under your and the co-pilot's feet (2 header tanks). Boiling fuel causes fuel vapor in the fuel (bubbles) in the in-use header tank and then this is pumped back into the injection system and vapor lock is the result with rough or quiting engine and power. So I fly high and don't descend until absolutely necessary and slow it down in the pattern. And this issue is placarded on the panel in every TDCS for the 210 so I really don't understand why the FAA investigators didn't contribute that as a part of the accident. Placard: Major Fuel Flow Fluctuations/Power Surges 1. AUX Fuel Pump - On, Adjust Mixture. 2. Select Opposite Tank. 3. When Fuel Flow Steady, Resume Normal Operations. See Procedure Card D1189-13 For Expanded Instruction. I added a procedure between 2 & 3, "Lower the Landing Gear" while the prop is windmilling. All the drag and reduced glide aside the T210K's landing gear power pack is hydraulic running off an engine pump, not electric like the newer models. I'm also an A&P and have had "The Beast" up on jacks and hand pumped the gear up and down as a part of the annual inspection process, there is just no way I'm going to get it pumped and down in a time sensitive emergency and be able to focus on also flying the plane as far into the crash as possible (50+ pumping actions to get the gear down and no wind resistance).

Man, I was missing the pieces as to why the plane lost power, a vapor lock makes a lot of sense. High and hot will cause that if the tanks aren't full, this is why using the auxiliary fuel pump and possibly switching tanks to resolve the issue. The guy flew the way he did because he recently had been training on STOL aircraft and was likely suffering from recency bias and interference from that training. I've flown an STOL and his maneuvers track very closely with how you land and STOL on short and rough terrain.

Yep, the 210 has an abysmal safety record because of this. It's one plane that I refuse to fly in.

I have never had any fuel issues in the 206, but I’m always primed to hit the electric boost should I need it, although this emergency can be fairly complicated depending on the condition, but with the TIO-520 push everything forward and hold the high boost.

And somehow, he got a pilot license??? Here I am taking Lexipro, will never pilot again, but certainly 1000% safer than that arse clown. Go figure FAA. No logic, just a club of Karens making up sheet.

I’ve seen that guy but can’t find it now.

He will be iight , first world problems brought upon himself.

​@@deaf2819 a broken back is only a first world problem? You need an attitude adjustment.

Wow 😯

I read those reports too and nearly dropped out they scared me so bad.

You sound like a good pilot, levels above this guy

Me too.

I'm only about 12 hours into it and I just finished up emergency procedures, I can't fathom not having each critical checklist not memorized, your life depends on it!

"Aviation regulations are written in blood"

Shadrach is a biblical name that is somewhat more popular in the LDS community because of Shadrach Roundy, an early LDS leader and one of the senior members of Brigham Young's Company who were among the first to arrive in the Salt Lake Valley. Nowadays quite a few LDSers love the performative social media lifestyle vlogs (presumably due in large part to the ad revenue that comes along with it), which no doubt played a role in clouding this guy's judgment. Ironically, this stupid mistake probably generated more attention and ad revenue for them than anything else they could've come up with, but at great cost given the lasting injuries he sustained.

@@KZfaqSafetyTrollwhat a great answer for a silly question. Thanku for the info and lesson. I love when people who actually know what they speak of respond to the typical you tube fools lol ❤

This coming from "mr. martyr" lol indeed.

@@srf2112 Yea man....thats my real name. My lord what a fuckin lame ass comment. Lol

A bit of levity in the comments was required considering how tragic this could have ended but thankfully no one was seriously hurt.

"Train like you fight." ODS armor veteran. #salute

@@danepatterson8107 that’s a fact. The training provided at these flight schools is ok. Proficiency is by the FAA but it’s not quite as extensive the training we received on safety in the military. Thinking about it, from the chow hall line to the graduation of your career school and every training day after, safety was built into our daily operations.

​@johnafsoc8929 Crazy. . . because in the commercial world (not part 121), military training isn't really looked upon that positively. Most "training" is 2 pilot operations, for things that doesn't fit the civilian world. Stick and rudder proficiency are commonly severely lacking from military pilots. Too many pilot aids in them million dollar aircraft. About the only thing military training is good for is for the airlines. . . and even then, you're going to get retrained. The worst, and most ego-driven pilots I have met, are "military" pilots. . . And thats saying a bunch coming from me😉🤪 *not saying there isn't some serious bad-asses in the military. Just that it's a few. Like most pilots. Average, especially compared to the commercial counterparts. Private rated pilot is a different ball of wax. . . And even then, that's a broad brush stroke.

And his ex-wife.

One passenger got his back broken, can't work anymore, he should sue him

"we're probably gonna die, RELAX"

Youre the problem. He said the right thing

@@FrankYammy He *yelled the right thing

Serenity NOW!

I agree that he comes off as relatively immature. A huge red flag as to his judgement and maturity is that he and his friends are filming themselves and creating content and drama seem to take priority.

Put him in jail

He for sure never read the emergency landing instructions

Or hold my beer/vape

I've been binging for the past couple of weeks! Great channel!

Good point...it is easy for us to focus upon his (other) mistakes when an engine problem can happen at any time to anyone, and be fatal if not prepared for it.

Exactly this

I have to say that not all pilots have the opportunity to experience an engine out and not all pilots have a plane that CAN land on a rural plot of land…or a plot of land to land on legally. I have similar time as this pilot and I have landed on grass before in a tail wheel plane while getting my tail wheel endorsement but I have not and could not land my mooney on a rural plot of land just for training purposes. There are other ways to get that training.

@@JakeArey You're absolutely right, of course, and I should have hedged my statement somewhat. And then again, just from knowing you made the effort to obtain tail-wheel endorsement, I think it likely that you wouldn't have stalled that Centurion over that lake shore.

Why do I feel like your family was doing illegal things in Mexico with airplanes

@@dawsondetrana5496 Because you're biased by the american media to think that Mexico is only about the cartels and nothing else. We owned both livestock and agricultural properties scattered over 3 states, there's no other way to manage that but to fly to each location, several times per week. I would've been offended by your comment years ago but seeing what has become of your own country today, I am at peace.

​@@ernestoherreralegorreta137Don't come here and lie. You're a nobody and always have been.

He didn’t intentionally kill the engine. At least as far as the NTSB investigation says.

Based on the hanger talk it doesn't sound like she ever trusted him in the first place

@@pilot-debriefNo, but I think the previous poster's point is that one of the passengers thought he was the kind of pilot who would do something like that. That he was the sort of pilot who would put putting on a show ahead of safety.

@@SM-if4nz That was my impression too.

Didn't they say that they found no cause for it to lose power also??@@pilot-debrief

Jesus Christ man. 25,000?? That’s insane. Thank you for the Insight.

that was literally the first thing I thought when he said 'nothing' when he advanced the throttle: MIXTURE

Exactly! I still cant get over lowering the landing gear with fully loaded plane, mountain altitudes and hot day to "slow it down" in a canyon where he looks well under 1000 feet AGL?!?!

I got a feeling they were pretty low on gas anyway

bro has a prop that he can use to slow down let alone his landing gear, he thinks hes in a a320 or something, im like 12 hours into my PPL and this is just mind boggling, absolutely crazy, i cant get my head around it...@@davidclark39

Also the vapors so pump on & switch tanks has been suggested by knowledgeable people in this comment section >>> so that is the reason we have these dialogues & debriefs in the 1st place >>> so we use every experience as a LEARNING experience- thanks for your input I appreciate you!

I've heard people almost brag about only doing cursory preflights because "it's always the same; it's just a ritual." Crazy.

@@DerBingle1 As a non-pilot myself (my Brother is a CFI) but I am a former Truck Driver, I shake my head when My "Pre-trip" on my truck was more in depth than a Complacent Pilot's "Pre-Flight" - I remember NOT to take rides from.

Because most average pilots are just average people with the extra money to buy or fly an airplane. IDK if ya'll noticed, but the average person is a complete F'ing moron that can't even figure out a 4 way stop instersection. These plane crash videos don't surprise me in the least. It's just par for the course with the general population. Nobody cares how anything works, nobody is even remotely curious about anything they just want to turn the key and go. Guy was a dumbass, don't feel sorry for him. He probably has another plane already.

Average pilot? That's the majority of humans. Conscientiousness is one of the least prevalent personality traits, and we're wired by nature to be creatures of habit. It took me less than 5 seconds to intuit how incompetent this person is as soon as I heard him begin to speak. I wouldn't trust that idiot to report what time of day it is

He didn’t strike me as a guy that uses checklists, not even when going to the grocery store.

This dude definitely comes off as arrogant about his flying, and does not talk like any pilot I've known. He phoned it in just enough to get his certificate, and promptly forgot most of the important stuff because he didn't take it seriously.

@@Whitehall303 He crammed for his exam. Which is fine if it’s for your history class and you’re not a history major. A monkey can be trained to operate an aircraft, but if the monkey doesn’t understand the physics of aviation, that monkey is not going to operate the aircraft safely. Even worse is if the monkey thinks it knows but does not know. What troubles me is that I’m a dumb monkey and I sometimes think I know something when I really don’t.

@@Whitehall303 Agree. But we already know he has extremely poor judgement even if we did not watch the video from cockpit and had none of this channel's expert analysis. Why? Because he has absurdly bad enough judgement to be videoing "his side" before the official findings and is opening himself up to several massive lawsuits that could cost him every nickel he will ever earn. Even if that family of four that were his passengers were his best friends, or even his brother, 1) Most even mild back or neck injury in childhood will likely that you recover from will often cause nerve and disk issues with aging. 2) for all we know one of those kids was involved n high school sports that may have led to scholarship that now wont due to even minor injury 3) even if you do not want to sue, your health insurer will.

@@CantonBn Yup. Can't wait to check in on this story in 10 years and see how it all played out. I imagine it will take about that long for it all to wrap up.

passengers dont know😢

Thank you

Yes, and that's when friends and even family may sue his bleep off because lawyers will tell them that's the only way they will get payouts big enough to actually help them enough to live decently after this mess.

Ya, I always try to at least find one or two good things to point out even when you make some really big mistakes.

​@@pilot-debrief pos pic

Yea, his confession video was his psyche justifying his actions.

How much of a difference was flying planes Vs helicopters

@@MrAdamNTProtester In one there is the possibility that you might be able to glide out of a bad situation, in the other that possibility does not exist...

​@@spandon helicopter has a higher crash survivability than fixed wing

@@gabekremer7148 I can't find any evidence to support that statement anywhere on the web, grateful if you could reason why you say it and maybe evidence your logic/non-logic....?

​@@gabekremer7148Don't think I've seen a helicopter crash with even one survivor minus the one at Grand Canyon a few years back. Usually it's an instant fireball. We even had a helicopter collide with a small fixed wing at a local airport here and surprise, everyone on the helicopter died. Not so for the plane.

that's right. they knew.

was very suspicious the questions those kids and woman were asking. There gut was telling them something and those kids dont know any better than to say something. Concerning as fuck.

@@plaidjoker1321 well, they did say something. this is the problem with teaching young people to speak indirectly,, young people are taught , or bullied , to be passive and non-confrontational. they're not taught when it's appropriate to be direct, and confrontational. this is part of a bigger problem with humanity and that's rearing it's head these days.

My wife asks me those questions when I drive the cart at the grocery store

I’ll be honest, I feel like I’m internally and maybe even sometimes externally asking these questions when I’m getting in a car with someone I haven’t driven with before. I would probably hope and believe my family wouldn’t do anything dumb enough to kill me in flight, but I have been known to change plans based solely on my gut. If I had been there that morning with all that questioning going on it would have been way too damn much…and I would have just been like, “let me catch y’all tomorrow.”

Kind of like those who brag about laying a motorcycle down like it is good riding. No, laying down is the last resort. If you kept "your out" chances are you'd never get into that mess. I have had my jeans hem touch the back bumper of a car that pulled out in front of me before while swerving around their back bumper staying upright rather than just hitting the trunk line or laying it down. If you have an inch clearance you have it made IMHO. Never give up trying to save it properly!

My grandfather (a private pilot) always said you could land a light plane against a brick wall and walk away from it if you fly the airplane up the the bitter end.

@@geekfreak618 You hear "I had to lay her down" so many times by the uskilled and uneducated motorcycle riders. Interpretation: I panicked, over braked with the back brake, never touched the front, lost control of the slide and "laid it down". No the bike reacted to poor riding skills and went down with your help. Lay her down crashes, in so many post review cases, could have been close calls with proper braking and swerving actions. Same with flying, ride the ride until the end. Not every crash can be saved, (blind corner head on's for example) but so many others can with comptent riding skills. Based on over 55 years of riding, and skills building through training and practice, I'd say about 95% of riders I observe on street are riding on a prayer and luck, not competence. I try to get away from them so as not to see the likely outcome.

​@geekfreak618 fellow rider.. always thought people who bragged about jumping off the bike were nuts. The brakes slow you down faster than your ass! I'm glad to hear you avoided the cage.

When you land vertically, you don't have a long roll-out.

Gross comment.🤢

Lmao

Exactly. You're not flying into a wall. It's the vertical drops that are deadly. Skimming the ground coming down at 50 fpm, gear-up at 60 mph is arguably not even all that dangerous. You could probably do it 100 times and survive.

The way I put it to some seized wing drivers😜 was, on foot would you jump up, put your legs horizontal and land on your ass?, no?, then why stall a 50ft AGL?. They looked like they had an epiphany, haha.

If coming in slow will make a stall and crash more likely, than why are so many pilots ignorant of this? Why isn't it drilled into them to maintain airspeed? Is that too much for a basic private pilot licensee to learn?

I was thinking the same!

In terms of giving him credit…I figure at least he didn’t go into complete panic mode and crash them in the water. 🤷‍♂️

@@pilot-debriefFair point. It should be noted: That front passenger sustained very serious injuries. I believe he’s now permanently disabled.

@@pilot-debrief well beeing a glider pilot with 3000h on sailplanes and maybe 1000h on motor planes I do not understand why it is so difficult to honor the most important thing in these situations: Fly the plane ! Accident survival stats show, that even a controlled flight into the woods is better than stalling. Horizontal speed is better than vertical speed. I already had to even bailout on my glider after another glider hit my plane, so I can tell you something about stress in these situations. Unfort. I lost my GoPro during the crash, would have been interesting for your channel...

Fly the aircraft into the crash as long as possible…

@@LSVFlachkurblerbailing out must be one hell of an adrenaline rush! And I don’t mean that in a positive way. Thankfully you made it out safe!

I’m not even a pilot-just an AvGeek and merely looking at how low and slow he was going through that valley had me uneasy. Hearing the stall horn so close to the ground made me pucker a bit. My limited understanding of flight suggests that he should have lowered the nose and gotten more power-if possible. Maybe by adjusting the fuel mixture? Either way pulling the nose up during a stall sounds like a bad idea.

@@mikoto7693 most planes are full rich under 3000ft above sea level. With how elevated they were mixture could be useful in getting more power but the engine can only do so much before you are too rich.

@@Syncrusan Aye, I was just wondering if he might have accidentally left the mixture too lean. But to be honest if I’d been flying I likely wouldn’t have been flying though a valley that low to begin with. 😆 If a non-pilot can look at that and feel it might be too low then I definitely would have known better as an actual student pilot. I mean, I usually drive my car alone and on the days that I give my parents a lift out to the airport I can certainly feel the extra weight of two additional adult bodies plus two heavy suitcases! I can only imagine how it would have felt to fly a plane that’s heavier than usual! Anyway, I truly wish you well in your studies and flights. I hope you achieve all your pilot goals and dreams. I might have been like you and be taking lessons myself had I been born a little wealthier.

Realistically, that aircraft requires periodic refresher training with a CFI. If you can't afford that, then you have no business flying it. My dad had one, and it was amazing. But you always had the underlying feeling that it would bite you in the ass hard if you didn't show it respect.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

PELs,?

unfortunately, there's a bunch of conjecture here. . . It was a power failure. . .and his flare was a little high, about the only real mistake the pilot made. Everything else is opinion. I've seen other videos this guy has made, and he has just been completely wrong. Even mis-identifying aircraft.

@@Jessersadler it doesn't sound like you are a pilot at all... I am and I can assure you this should have been avoided. Part of being a pilot is proper pre-flight awareness and going over emergency procedures. This flight never should have happened in the first place. And his emergency awareness was God awful. Either you are no pilot and consider your 20 hours of Microsoft flight simulator to suffice, or you need your license revoked. Absolute fool.

Should have his driver's license revoked too. What a imbecile.

Agree

Duly noted but they are called ACCIDENTS for a reason & accidents can occur to anyone at anytime- machines fail- FACT so remember that it rains on the just & unjust alike... hope for the BEST but always prepare for the worst- SEMPER PARATUS

@@MrAdamNTProtester Yes, they are accidents, but that only denotes that the act was not intentional. There are many different causes of accidents and incompetence is one of them, along with many other pilot errors.

@@MrAdamNTProtestermost aviation incidents are caused by human error, hence why they’re termed “mishaps” instead of accidents. The events that occurred usually happened due to poor decision-making rather than a flaw in the design of the aircraft or a malfunction of some kind.

Experienced people, got lucky when they weren't experienced. Experience is earned, mistakes can happen along the way.

The pilot could not have known the engine would fail when flying low without a place to land, but that is why you don't fly low low unless you have a place to land.

The video shows him selecting the left tank right after that screenshot when they are on the ground. Never shows anything after that.

Agreed. Im not even a pilot but i understand the laws of physics and the components of flight better than this pilot does. Wow.

I'm not sure how old you are, but schools are now more or less churning out "engineers", and the rigor certainly doesn't seem high enough to weed out those who don't belong. Even from my own education, it has been disappointing the amount of time that was spent doing all kinds of theoretical problems with almost no focus on industry/engineering standards to the point that nobody graduating had ever had to size a single fastener or knew about various sizes or the reason for picking one material over another. I have worked UNDER an "engineer" supervisor in the past who literally couldn't solve a basic algebra problem. These problem have only been getting worse with the focus shifting from competency to DEI.

@LittleJoes that depends on how the other high schools setup their math curriculum. I took Precalc as a Junior and Calc as a Senior in HS... I was then told I should retake Calc in college because "It's much harder than high school Calc!" (this was false... we learned ONE topic that wasn't covered in high school, everything else was the same). Otherwise, it depends on which college you're touring... not all programs are equally good, as not all professors are equally good. I'd look into how students rated their professors online if you'd like to know how good a program is. Some of the professors I had could have just as easily been replaced by the book they were making us use.

@LittleJoes if you can get through the first 5 chapters in Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions 4th Edition by Larson Hostetler Edward's, that's essentially "college level" Calculus. That book alone covers Calc I, II, and III. Unless your son struggled with Calculus in high school, I can't see any reason to repeat it in college as he'd just be wasting time (albeit boosting his GPA if the course is easy). I went to Penn State and GA Tech for graduate school... in retrospect though, Penn State doesn't have the best student body and some professors were rather middling while GA Tech has fairly lousy facilities (in an ever worse area)... which I choose because my "love interest" went there! I would try to check out any college ranked in the top 20 for his engineering discipline, then decide based on how he likes the campus and what he thinks of the faculty. I'd also put more emphasis on hands-on / co-op learning opportunities as that's a better way to grasp what he really needs to learn to do real engineering.

If you take Calc in high school with a graphing calculator and the university forces you to learn it without the graphing calculator, you should retake it IMO.

One problem is lots of mechanical engineers are not taught GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing) and so don't know how to make prints or read prints properly when they get into industry. GD&T can be difficult to really learn and some engineers just get a one week course then wonder why they all interpret the same print differently when GD&T is supposed to be an Iron Law regarding print reading, meaning they should all understand it the same. Many engineers also do not get training in DFMA (Design for Manufacturability and Assembly), also known separately as DFM and DFA. They instead have only been trainee to design for functionality, and part functionality is but one element of product design. It must be designed to be manufacturable, easy to assemble, easy to maintain, supply chain in mind, etc...