King Air B200 crash, Iceland August 2013
Discussion
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.
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There's no doubt in my mind (although I may of course, be wrong) that he simply flew it into the ground. As I said in the first post, most likely looking at his mates at the drag strip to see if they were watching rather than flying the plane.
It looks (to me at least) as though he changes the control inputs very slightly, just before it goes in, which at a guess is when the F/O brought his attention to the fact that they were about to hit the deck and he tried to avoid the, by that point, inevitable outcome.
The only reason it has any roll rate when the majority of the airframe hits the ground is because the wing has hit the ground, up until that point, its not doing anything special at all.
It looks (to me at least) as though he changes the control inputs very slightly, just before it goes in, which at a guess is when the F/O brought his attention to the fact that they were about to hit the deck and he tried to avoid the, by that point, inevitable outcome.
The only reason it has any roll rate when the majority of the airframe hits the ground is because the wing has hit the ground, up until that point, its not doing anything special at all.
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