Impala crash in South Africa

[LotusOmega375D]

Pilot sadly killed. Apparently just recently returned to flight.

https://youtu.be/n_FxLf_Ht0k?si=jxYx22tguuBB75E1

[Eric Mc]

It just shows that thousands of hours of experience does not prevent mistakes. It looks like yet another crash caused by entering a roll at too low an airspeed and too low an altitude.

[Rough101]

Eric Mc said:

It just shows that thousands of hours of experience does not prevent mistakes. It looks like yet another crash caused by entering a roll at too low an airspeed and too low an altitude.

Too low and too slow from this video, yes. Could be instruments I suppose, but I’m not a pilot.

[eharding]

Having the gear hanging out and, it's hard to tell but perhaps a stage of flap as well didn't help with the energy management I suspect. In a low speed ballistic roll like that it's imperative to get the nose high enough on the entry to ensure the subsequent nose drop through the inverted doesn't result in an excessive nose-down angle on the way out. Sadly, the way the nose dropped through in the inverted in this case looks as though even if he had arrested the roll and decided to push out of it to level inverted flight he had just run out of enough energy to maintain his height.

[aeropilot]

eharding said:

Having the gear hanging out and, it's hard to tell but perhaps a stage of flap as well didn't help with the energy management I suspect.

Definitely has flaps deployed from the still shots I've seen when inverted just before it departed flight.