Light plane crash captured on Gopro cam

**JDNSW** · 30th August 2012, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by vnx205

Do people agree with the explanation offered here?

LiveLeak.com - Here's the problem...

Problem was that the takeoff should never have been attempted in those conditions with that load. So no, I don't agree. Yes, it was near the stall - but that was because the pilot was attempting to climb, and yes, the terrain was rising - but if there had been any climb available there would have been no issues.

John

BigBlackDog · 31st August 2012, 08:32 PM

Which is a good simple example of an error chain as well as bad decision making. Poor decision (not doing the numbers for take off) leads to error (assuming overweight take off), then handling error(stall) and accident. Sad that in this day and age people still make the same accidents as always

**JDNSW** · 1st September 2012, 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by BigBlackDog

Which is a good simple example of an error chain as well as bad decision making. Poor decision (not doing the numbers for take off) leads to error (assuming overweight take off), then handling error(stall) and accident. Sad that in this day and age people still make the same accidents as always

Yes, and although I have not seen any recent statistics, I would be prepared to bet that 90% of engine failures in light aircraft are due to either fuel exhaustion or attempting run on an empty tank.

The same of course applies to accidents on the road - almost always very similar to previous ones.

John

BigBlackDog · 1st September 2012, 10:22 AM

Sounds about right, I think the top 3 are along the lines of fuel starvation through bad planning or getting lost, visual flight into instrument conditions and loss of control. That's from memory though. The leading cause of large aircraft accidents in the western world is loss of control recently, too many computers not enough 'stick'

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