King Air B200 crash, Iceland August 2013

[High flier]

A seriously scary video. Sounds like he was showing off to his friends at the drag strip by doing a low fly past. Looks like he was too busy looking to see if anyone on the ground was watching him, rather than flying the plane. Not clever. I'm amazed that the F/O survived! Unfortunately the Captain and the medic on board weren't so lucky.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c6_1389025127

[benters]

bloody hell. . .

[fatboy69]

Jeez...........

[Eric Mc]

Oops.

Interesting to see that the first car to respond was one of the hot rods.

[Simpo Two]

Astonishing that anyone survived.

I think you tend to turn in the direction you're looking in.

[4lf4-155]

Surely there must have been a problem with the plane? I don't understand what manoeuvre could be attempted that low, with hills directly ahead, that would involve a roll.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

You don't understand wing drop at the stall?

[Simpo Two]

He seemed to have some speed on but maybe it's a trick of perspective.

[JuniorD]

Seeing people flying like that in passenger aircraft really bugs me.

[dr_gn]

Stall?? He did that 1/4 mile in about 3 seconds. He should have got a prize.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

And that means WHAT exactly?

You think a stall means there is no momentum?

[lloyd h]

You can only give an aircraft so much rudder before it starts to fall towards earth which I presume is what GinettaGirl is getting at?

[dr_gn]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

And that means WHAT exactly?

You think a stall means there is no momentum?

It means it was sort of a joke, (that's a kind of humorous comment BTW).

What I saw was the aircraft low, in a steep left bank, initially looked like a lot of right rudder, probably travelling in excess of 200kts.

Feel free to talk us through it

[Eric Mc]

Remember that B-52 crash a few tears ago? He put the aircraft in such a steep turn that it just dropped out of the sky. This looks a bit like a permutation of that type of accident.

[Brother D]

dr_gn said:

Stall?? He did that 1/4 mile in about 3 seconds. He should have got a prize.

Sir, I have your ticket for the hell bus ready and waiting.

[Siko]

That B52 crash was a case study at a flight safety course I did a few years back, sadly it was a long time coming and entirely avoidable. There's other videos of him on the internet doing low fly pasts etc.

Back OT stall speed increases with G but not sure if that's what caused this one

[dr_gn]

Siko said:

That B52 crash was a case study at a flight safety course I did a few years back, sadly it was a long time coming and entirely avoidable. There's other videos of him on the internet doing low fly pasts etc.

Back OT stall speed increases with G but not sure if that's what caused this one

FWIW I agree with Simpo - he was probably distracted or just stopped concentrating on avoiding the ground and flew into it. I've done exactly the same thing dozens of times (only with model aircraft )

[Steameh]

Videos like this fascinate me with respect to the human response. How different people react; some instantly sprinting over or driving over to help, others sheilding themselves from it and almost ignoring it.

[Simpo Two]

dr_gn said:

he was probably distracted or just stopped concentrating on avoiding the ground and flew into it.

The phrase I like and which always seems accurate is 'ran out of sky'.

[RobGT81]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

You don't understand wing drop at the stall?

Not everyone is as clever as you. Luckily, not everyone is blessed with your keyboard manners.