Emergency landing on a road video

[CL65 Captain]

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[Dtrigg]

Best part is when he pulls into the parking lot!:biggrin:

 

[Rtype1206]

It be funny if he pulled into a fast food drive through window :biggrin:

 

[jalnjr]

nice...:smile:
roads make excellent landing strips.
i believe the us interstate system has a requirement
for straight-aways every 5 miles for this purpose...
i may be wrong,trust me i'm a doctor

 

[davidf]

Very fortunate. It would've sucked during rush hour. I'll give em both credit for staying so calm.

 

[ChopsJazz]

What was that conversation at the end? "Dude, I have to stop and get some beer and Pringles while we're here."

Great vid.

 

[Acura NsX Pilot]

nice...:smile:
roads make excellent landing strips.
i believe the us interstate system has a requirement
for straight-aways every 5 miles for this purpose...
i may be wrong,trust me i'm a doctor

Is this not how you get to Larry's house to drop people off to pick up there Nsx's John ? :biggrin:

 

[CL65 Captain]

i believe the us interstate system has a requirement
for straight-aways every 5 miles for this purpose...
i may be wrong,trust me i'm a doctor

Ya, you are wrong.

Roads do not make good landing strips. 9/10 are serious accidents. This guy got lucky. Real lucky. Cars, poles, telephone wires, electric wires, stoplight wires, etc, etc. A road would be close to my last choice. A controlled crash is better than hitting a wire, light pole or car and it becoming an uncontrolled crash. This guy got real lucky - which made up for his stupidity - OUT OF GAS.

 

[ChopsJazz]

- which made up for his stupidity - OUT OF GAS.

Really!?! Out of gas? That is stupid.

 

[theman1990]

Yah I was gonna say it sounds like a little fuel issue... It MAY not be outa gas, tho... could have debris sucked up hence the running and dying. He better hope there was a faulty gauge AND a leak out the back (for not visually verifying the fuel)....

 

[tosugrad]

nice...:smile:
roads make excellent landing strips.
i believe the us interstate system has a requirement
for straight-aways every 5 miles for this purpose...
i may be wrong,trust me i'm a doctor

It IS..........in Sweeden.

Actually the original plan for the interstate system did have thoughts about this. Its just with population the way it is now, it doesn't seem that way.

 

[jalnjr]

Ya, you are wrong.

Roads do not make good landing strips. 9/10 are serious accidents. This guy got lucky. Real lucky. Cars, poles, telephone wires, electric wires, stoplight wires, etc, etc. A road would be close to my last choice. A controlled crash is better than hitting a wire, light pole or car and it becoming an uncontrolled crash. This guy got real lucky - which made up for his stupidity - OUT OF GAS.

i have been debunked [sort of]sorry for disinformation another urban myth wasted, cappy

ya gotta pick yer spots, and always have an out...scan ahead, junior birdmen.
back to my flight sim:frown:

 

[CL65 Captain]

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And of course, my favorite. :wink:

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[curtsr]

Really!?! Out of gas? That is stupid.

I'm not sure if it is different for experimentals and I'd appreciate knowing, but the production planes that I have preflighted call for fuel gauge check virtually at the top of the list and a visual fuel tank check very soon thereafter.

How do you not use a preflight checklist?

 

[CL65 Captain]

I'm not sure if it is different for experimentals and I'd appreciate knowing, but the production planes that I have preflighted call for fuel gauge check virtually at the top of the list and a visual fuel tank check very soon thereafter.

How do you not use a preflight checklist?

Experimental are no different. But you can't fix stupid.

Look at the John Denver crash. One tank full, the other empty. He just bought the plane and didn't know how to change the tank. Lost the engine just after takeoff from Santa Monica.

People fly planes without doing pre-flights all the time. Complaicency.

BTW: We don't check the fuel or sump the tanks on commercial jets... we have a Fuel Quantity Indicator System with redundant backups and warnings when one channels goes out. Although, back to you can't fix stupid... do a search for Air Canada Flight 143.

 

[Cragar]

This guy got real lucky - which made up for his stupidity - OUT OF GAS.

I don't know much about planes , but I have heard for something like this the FAA will rip you a new one -or- Rip up your license.


CL65 , How much trouble is the pilot in for with the FAA ?

 

[Alittleboost]

anybody have a link to the a news article on this?

 

[CL65 Captain]

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/4/21/plane_makes_emergency_landing_on_street.html

Be awhile before the details actually come out. But having run a tank dry many times (switching tanks on my Cessna 310 - the plane has four) it sure sounds like fuel starvation. Notice how it purred right to life twice after cranking it over and a couple of seconds later died. Using the tiny bit of fuel left in the line/carb. Like I said, I don't think it was an engine failure as it purred pretty good for those short burst (when it had fuel). :wink:

 

[steveny]

Really!?! Out of gas? That is stupid.

Checking the fuel both visually and by direct sight was the one thing the instuctor drove into my head lesson after lesson. The guys who were rushed to get in the air would always race through the inpection process. Unless these guys in the video never looked at how much fuel they had, then must have been a leak. I just can't imagine anyone leaving the runway without checking the fuel. If they did then there license should be revoked because they are dangerous!

As for landing on the road, they got really, really lucky. During the training I took we were instucted to land in open fields. Always look for wires!

 

[Jetpilot3]

Although, back to you can't fix stupid... do a search for Air Canada Flight 143.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Interesting that the plane kept flying until 2008...I always assumed it was de-commissioned after the landing.:wink:

 

[IsR]

Ya, you are wrong.

Roads do not make good landing strips. 9/10 are serious accidents. This guy got lucky. Real lucky. Cars, poles, telephone wires, electric wires, stoplight wires, etc, etc. A road would be close to my last choice. A controlled crash is better than hitting a wire, light pole or car and it becoming an uncontrolled crash. This guy got real lucky - which made up for his stupidity - OUT OF GAS.

I agree to that. Had to make an emergency landing just under a year ago. On a 10 tonne heli. Road landing is tempting but open fields(or water) is what you're looking for. Road landing option is probably considered if you are flying over jungle and mountains with no open areas. Then again this is a rotary guy point of view :wink:

... just gave myself goosebump thinking about it.