Video of plane 'crashing' into Ullswater Lake - Cumbria

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I put 'crashing' in the title as thats what the local news outlets were calling it.

"Skimming the water for a laugh" seems more appropriate.

Whatever you want to call it, it provoked a massive response from worried emergency services teams, the CAA, and was caught on video.

They pilot has skills for sure but I have a feeling he might get his arse smacked for that? It's usually a very busy lake on a nice day.

http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2015/04/13/video-plane...

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CAPP0 said:

Why TF did it "spark a major SAR operation" when it very clearly took off again from a form of touch & go? Is the Cumbria Crack the local version of the Wail?

To be fair, Cumbria Crack is usually pretty decent as a local news source.

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I'm not a pilot. The closest I have come is being made to fly various RAF training aircraft at bases around the country which I didn't really enjoy, so the following concerns about the incident may or may not be valid:

Isn't there a rule against low flying such as this. Do aircraft not have to adhere to a minimum height?

Also, my main issue is that upon making contact with the water, I would be worried that the drag on the tyres from the water would be so great that it might flip the plane over forwards?

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FourWheelDrift said:

Looked like it had those big balloon tundra tyres, see this a lot in Canada/North America.









they even have competitions for it, maybe he was on his holidays in the UK and just practicing

That last pilot^^^, i think he's doing it wrong.......... ;-)

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eharding said:

I have no idea about the provenance of the video - but it does seem slightly odd. Assuming it was completely bone-fide, shot by some random punter,

Well it certainly looks like Ullswater and as it's a massive tourist trap locally there will probably be quite a lot of people around the lake at any one time with cameras to hand.