Cypress Sun Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Incredible video of a plane crashing into a moving SUV as caught by doorbell video system. Warning, both occupants of the plane and a young boy in the SUV were killed in this accident. My thoughts go out to the victims and their families. This just shows how quick life can change in an instant. https://www.fox13news.com/news/4-year-old-boy-dies-after-plane-crashes-into-mothers-suv-in-south-florida-neighborhood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 So horribly sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 DANG! I guess when your time is up, your time is up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 9 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: DANG! I guess when your time is up, your time is up. In the proverbial New York minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 that is just crazy , i had not heard it happened - suppose the news was preoccupied with covid stats , very sad for that family , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Wow!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 When your ticket is punched, it's punched and nothing you can do about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Seems no matter how many times I watch it the feeling in my chest is the same. When your ticket is pulled it's pulled I guess. Such a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 That’s horrible. I cannot imagine that at all. I wonder what was wrong with the plane? Call me paranoid but I am thoroughly alert around small airports and landing strips. Very alert for this same reason. I have seen a few near misses in my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 8 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: That’s horrible. I cannot imagine that at all. I wonder what was wrong with the plane? Call me paranoid but I am thoroughly alert around small airports and landing strips. Very alert for this same reason. I have seen a few near misses in my time. Me too! We used to live right under the approach to a small airport and every now and then one would damn near clip the top of the hickorys and rattle the house. You could see the stains on the fuselage and the pilots faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 5 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: That’s horrible. I cannot imagine that at all. I wonder what was wrong with the plane? Call me paranoid but I am thoroughly alert around small airports and landing strips. Very alert for this same reason. I have seen a few near misses in my time. Could be any number of things, but: The No. 2 most common cause of general aviation accidents is fuel mismanagement, of which running out of gas is just one of them. John Denver is one of the more famous examples. It's also possible to have fuel aboard and starve the engine of gas if the pilot mismanages his fuel tanks. (The No. 1 cause is a non-IFR rated pilot flying from visual conditions into instrument conditions. JFK Jr. is one of the more famous examples.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 The plane wasn't going very fast so I suspect a failed take-off. Also with all that fuel burning it doesn't appear he ran out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 51 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: The plane wasn't going very fast so I suspect a failed take-off. Also with all that fuel burning it doesn't appear he ran out. Not necessarily. If he stalled the plane - an aerodynamic condition as opposed to lack of fuel - forward speed is significantly reduced. This is a common mistake when a pilot has lost power. All we know is there was fuel aboard as evident from the fire. He very well could have starved the engine of fuel causing it to quit if he mismanaged the tanks. They don’t all flow to the engine automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Forrester Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 That's horrible! No matter how alert or defensively driving minded the mother was, there probably was no seeing or avoiding this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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