@brownspottedbanana ...You are a sick son of a bitch. 19 years old? I don't think so. You are just a miserable little mentally deficient, piimply faced rat bastard in your mother's basement.
@GutpileCharlie why are you watching it? anyway this is lame. there are far more gorey websites on the internet with real gruesome death footage out there. try it out. you could even watch decapitations
@brownspottedbanana i love watching the same stuff. Have you seen the drug cartel chainsaw beheading yet?? or the one when the guy starts vomiting thru his open neck while being beheaded? thats a good 1 too
These flying contraptions need to be made illegal, one of these days someone is going to get hurt in killed in one of them. Mark my words, its gonna happen.
@50caliberFistFK What do you use?...A horse. Or do you use the most dangerous product sold, the automobile. Kills more people every year than were killed in all of the Vietnam war.
The old,high time Boeing 727's (with wet wing) frequently had cracks in the wing spars. I went to flight school for two years in the 1980's, and was told that when the high wing Cessnas get overloaded by manoeuvers etc.....that the tailplane is usually the first to fail.
watching him head toward the ground I couldn't help but imagine his thoughts as the plane descended. I hope this accident leads to further developments in air safety.
@TomHallMusic Where I am obviously most sympathetic to any loss of life, I ha
@TomHallMusic Where I am obviously most sympathetic to any loss of life, I have to say that no matter how much air safety and precautions are put in place, this kind of an accident is more often than not ... pilot error. In this case it is almost certainly pilot error.
Former instructor here: 1. Thanks to lee, spode and couple of others for some intelligence and knowledge in commenting. 2. Re: BPRS or BRS systems. Only became commercially avail. in early 80s starting with ultralights. Still only available for limited number of aircraft models. Note incident date. 3. Re: regular chute use, ask aerobatic pilots about number of steps required to bail out and probab. of success in low altitude scenario under duress. 4. Please avoid jokes. A man died.
Watching this video closely. Is it possible that the rear of the fuse just in front of the empennage failed just before the wings detached. I know the left wing contacts the fuse at the end and destroys it, but watch just before the wings detach. Can anyone else see a 2 pulse beat of the tail. If this occurred it could produce an aggressive nose high attitude causing the Gs to be exceeded and break the wing spars.
Many stunt pilot push Non-stunt catagory aircraft past their limits during airshows. I have no problem with experienced stunt pilots doing that but this guy should have had a parachute or a BRS (airplane parachute). That would have saved him.
A memorial tribute vid would be much nicer than actually showing his death. Very poor taste. I'm assuming you showed the crash since I refused to watch.
the plane wasnt being over stressed, it hit something in that cloud area, both wing tips snaped equaly and atteh same spot, at the precise same moment, and smacked intot he back tail fin.
Over stressed issues would nto produce such precision in the wing snaping
Yes it would, as both wings are exactly the same the pressure points would result in the same breakage point. The fact that he went through the cloud didn't help anyways.
Or Giselle was in a pissed of mood and karate chopped both wings off.
Wing spar integrity has nothing to do with maintenance ! Partenavia's were designed for normal and utility category flight. Its purpose was for observation and/or training, NOT aerobatics !!!!!!! You sound like a clueless news reporter with that comment .
BULLSHIT!! In almost 30 years of maitaining and flying aircraft the wing spar has EVERYTHING to do with maintenance!! Shirk a spar inspection...either I'll see you in court, Heaven or the other place!
The spar is the backbone of the wing and tranfers aerodynamic loads. Given any overlooked cracks corrosion or damge and you're playing with fire!!
I personally knew 3 people who were killed because a spar suddenly folded up..all of which were trace to issues with a cracked wing spar!
OK, the lowdown: The Partenavia P-68C was being used for manoeuvres for which it was not designed. The pilot was flying 27 knots past its never-exceed speed & attempted a high-G pull-up which broke the wings outboard of the nacelles, ruptured the fuel tanks, torque-loaded the tail and twisted it...and that was all. Sept. 11, 1983, Plainview, TX, N29561, report is in the NTSB database. To make this worse, the pilot was a Certified Flight Instructor.
@robertgift Every aircraft requires an annual inspection by an A&P mechanic to remain airworthy. All access panels are opened up, mirrors and scopes are used, any problems are notated and marked for remedy. The Partenavia P68C was never intended for aerobatics such as this pilot put it through. There's a saying: "There's old pilots and there's bold pilots, but there's no old, bold pilots". Except Chuck Yeager, God bless him!
Agreed, suspect poor maintenance and not overstress but repeated stress which the airplane was not built for even if it was within limits. If you are going to fly stunts on the limit of what the airframe is capable of you will have to check it rigorously between every flight.
It seems this guy didn't know that, or didn't care.
There was no roll. He/She is flying fast in level flight. It looks to all the world like a Twin Otter or Caravan (or similar). A high wing with two engines. No stunt plane. suddenly both wings break simultaneously just outside the engines. Really strange.
remember it was a snap maneuver he was doing-involves a rapid pull of the stick and rudder application-thtas why the wings snapped and the rudder twisted up-It was Wes Winter-a well know airshow pilot at the time.
This happened on September 11th, 1983 at a airshow in Plainview, TX. The pilot was executing a high speed pass over the runway at about 250 ft above the ground. The pilot then began a rapid pull-up and both wings separated just outboard of the engine nacelles. The 'g' load at the time of the wing separations would have been 8.3 g's. The plane, a Partenavia P68C, was not design for so high a G load. The pilot was killed.
I remember a sad note to this that the pilots wife was commentating when it happened. she began to scream and they cut her microphone. The plane was not designed to pull g's like that. He had it register experimental to go airshow acts.
Strange, he appears to be in straight and level flight. Doesn't look like a high-G manuever. Perhaps he pulled up sharply and it just isn't obvious in the video.
Thats exactly what happenned ... he pulled hard on the stick ... The wings were already highly stressed due to the overspeed & parasitic drag on the wings .. The wings snapped the moment a high G component was initiated.
Yes, if they managed to unbuckle early then it would be impossible to open door and bail out. Probably had a chance when it stopped spinning but by then too low.
Obviously very sad and tragic for pilots and famillies
Can only ask why small planes like this are not fitted with "BRS" recovery chutes?
That WAS horrible! The pilot must have pulled too many "G's" which caused both wing tips to fail. I often watch planes fly overhead and hope I never see some planes wings fall off to watch someone fall to there death. I wish that those poor guys would've had a "BRS" recovery chute attached to that plane, they would've been here today if they had.
I am not NTSB investigator, but it looks like a pilot pulled up too hard on high speed, overstressing the structure. However, if it's US crash and you know the tail number or date and time of the accident, you can find it in the NTSB database.
just imagine... if you were the one flying that plane. Your life flashing before your eyes... what are you thinking about? This could be your LAST seconds of life and theres not a single thing you can do...
This is video of Wes Winter. He had worked out a nice routine with the Partenavia, but on this particula flight he overstressed the wing spar. The wing tip caps exploding as the spar flexed within the wing was the first indication of something wrong.
Wes was a nice guy, good businessman, and had a good reputation as an aircraft dealer. All of us that knew him still miss him - as well as several others of our community that died from various accidents of that era.
Appeared to be an overspeed incident resulting in a simultanious catastrophic structural failure in both wings. Then lost the tail from a strike by the wing debris. Flying straight and level rules out excessive + g-loading... That's NOT a fast airplane and they were moving along pretty quickly....VNE is established for a reason..Prayers.
Metal fatigue is a cumulative process and there were stress fractures in the main spar prior to the breakup. It's in the NTSB report, as I recall.....
All of you guys are wrong. The aircraft was not poorly built, the guy just exceeded Vne and yanked back on the stick causing the wings to rip off. The aircraft was not meant for aerobatics.
the only way he did that was the plane was underbuild the wings are ment to be dtrong enouth to stop the air batter at it oviosly this was not the case so the poor design of plane cause is fatal crash..
It's horses for courses, an aircraft designed for aerobatics can withstand more G's than the pilot can throw at it, this aircraft was never designed to perform the manouvres the pilot was attempting. This clip is a sobering reminder to all of those who think that they can get away with showing off in the wrong sort of aircraft: Aeroplanes bite fools. A sad loss for his family and a lesson to all who fly.
Whats tragic about this is that, if you hear the version with sound, it is the pilots WIFE narrating the display, & you hear her grief as she witnesses her husband fall to his death! :-(
Unfortunately he was performing a stunt where he was already exceeding the maximum vel of the aircraft. In starting to pull a climb, he basically over-stressed & ripped the wings off.
Pilot Error basically, not taking enough due care & attention. Very sad. :-(
The word at that time was that he did the loop at practice with low fuel levels in the wing tanks which did not stress the airframe to the same extent as it did when the stunt was done during the performance. The wings were topped off before the performance which led to the inevitable. and the last thing he saw was the earth slowly rising into his windshield at over 100 mph.
The wings were least of his worries. At 10 sec mark, you'll see the horiz. stabl "flare" (design flaw which caused 2 other P68's the same fate in "normal" flight years later), causing the plane to come to an "immediate stop" at which point the wings have no alt but to snap under the stress. If you don't believe me, look at the tail section on the way down, if the problem was just wings snapping off, that tail section would not be affected. However, it is barely hanging on due to the flaw.
I remember this accident report a long time ago. The NTSB report says that he inquired of the mfr. if he could do the maneuver as planned. The mfr. said no - it would over-stress the outboard wing portion(s). He tried anyway. And ...
This pilot had been pushing this plane before this video. This is a result of over stressing the wings on a plane that is used for charter flights and or skydivers.
I read something about this in Flying mag. This was not an aerobatic airplane but the pilot had been flying the airshow circuit doing just that. The investigators found fatigue cracking throughout the spar.
seen this some where else. he didnt seem to put too much force on the airframe it just folded up could be airframe failier. it might have been stressed more earlier on and the airframe gave up. sad loss.
i love watching peoples final moments of life
brownspottedbanana 3 months ago
@brownspottedbanana ...You are a sick son of a bitch. 19 years old? I don't think so. You are just a miserable little mentally deficient, piimply faced rat bastard in your mother's basement.
There is a place in hell for you.
GutpileCharlie 3 months ago
@GutpileCharlie why are you watching it? anyway this is lame. there are far more gorey websites on the internet with real gruesome death footage out there. try it out. you could even watch decapitations
brownspottedbanana 3 months ago
@brownspottedbanana Yes, one sick, pervert son of a bitch.
Now go fuck yourself you miserable miscreant pile of steaming excrement.
GutpileCharlie 3 months ago
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@GutpileCharlie Lol fuck you and your opinion
brownspottedbanana 3 months ago
@brownspottedbanana i love watching the same stuff. Have you seen the drug cartel chainsaw beheading yet?? or the one when the guy starts vomiting thru his open neck while being beheaded? thats a good 1 too
pressuredrop311 3 months ago
AIRPLANES are not to be FUCKED with.
Dominoes282 4 months ago
its a partnavia that isnt designed to do that, i should know I owned one
jordon1954 4 months ago
Made in China
kaitsho 5 months ago 3
not stunt plane
cybermarsactual 5 months ago
not a stunt plane, obviously
OK2BCK 6 months ago
These flying contraptions need to be made illegal, one of these days someone is going to get hurt in killed in one of them. Mark my words, its gonna happen.
50caliberFistFK 6 months ago
@50caliberFistFK What do you use?...A horse. Or do you use the most dangerous product sold, the automobile. Kills more people every year than were killed in all of the Vietnam war.
sonex424 5 months ago
isn't there an eject button or something!
mustang19ms 6 months ago
The old,high time Boeing 727's (with wet wing) frequently had cracks in the wing spars. I went to flight school for two years in the 1980's, and was told that when the high wing Cessnas get overloaded by manoeuvers etc.....that the tailplane is usually the first to fail.
alneal100 6 months ago
Trying to be Bob Hoover - in a Partenavia. I'm glad this doesn't have the audio. His wife was commentating.
gnarkillkicksass 7 months ago
rip
beandipping97 7 months ago
needs cloud insurence
beandipping97 7 months ago
He pull up the airplane over 8 Gs. With over speed.
FerryPilot33 8 months ago
suicide..
Herik77 8 months ago
Was that John Denver?
tryithere 9 months ago
@tryithere - How classy of you.....
corebare 9 months ago
watching him head toward the ground I couldn't help but imagine his thoughts as the plane descended. I hope this accident leads to further developments in air safety.
TomHallMusic 9 months ago
@TomHallMusic Where I am obviously most sympathetic to any loss of life, I ha
@TomHallMusic Where I am obviously most sympathetic to any loss of life, I have to say that no matter how much air safety and precautions are put in place, this kind of an accident is more often than not ... pilot error. In this case it is almost certainly pilot error.
darrindwp 9 months ago
do you think he could have lived if the plane didnt happen to land right on the windscreen? face first
MeetTheMaggot 9 months ago
@MeetTheMaggot Doubt it. It was a high-speed crash. RIP
ceryan83 9 months ago
@ceryan83 Aye, R.I.P
MeetTheMaggot 9 months ago
@MeetTheMaggot no, the deceleration force alone even if he didn't impact anything would kill him.
Riggro 5 months ago
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MeetTheMaggot 9 months ago
Another reason to not trust a CFI. Ive known quite a few thru the years who I will not trust. Or fly with. (40 years flying exp.)
michaelpilot1000 10 months ago
@michaelpilot1000 So you are self taught? What absolute nonsense.....flying is full of posers and bullshitters which one are you?
MrBigfatbloke 10 months ago
i would hat to be on that plane!!! :O
clubkeykey 11 months ago
Terrible shame. Apparently, he had been pushing the plane beyond its safe limits for some time before the inevitable happened. RIP.
MikeRomeoVictor 11 months ago
It's a shame his plane wasn't equiped with the CAPS system, it might have saved his life?
Wolfymusic1 11 months ago
Almost as bad as watching the video of that c-130 water bomber when both wings folded up alongside the fuselage and broke off . Horrific !
FickleFritz 11 months ago
Man, that's a long time to know you're gonna die before you actually die. Yeesh.
microdon2 11 months ago
R.I.P
MegaAlex413 11 months ago
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There are old Pilots.
There are bold Pilots.
There are no old bold Pilots
tomview1 1 year ago
Clearly exceeded the wing loading lol.
ChrizRockster 1 year ago
"Made in China"
33049156 1 year ago
@33049156 very true
warhawk600 1 year ago
Basically this accident happened because the airplane hit the ground too hard
bufferbrown 1 year ago
Former instructor here: 1. Thanks to lee, spode and couple of others for some intelligence and knowledge in commenting. 2. Re: BPRS or BRS systems. Only became commercially avail. in early 80s starting with ultralights. Still only available for limited number of aircraft models. Note incident date. 3. Re: regular chute use, ask aerobatic pilots about number of steps required to bail out and probab. of success in low altitude scenario under duress. 4. Please avoid jokes. A man died.
riddlepr1 1 year ago
What goes up, must come down.
urmaninuniform09 1 year ago
@urmaninuniform09 - clever comment?.....grow up sonny
spottydog4477 1 year ago
Watching this video closely. Is it possible that the rear of the fuse just in front of the empennage failed just before the wings detached. I know the left wing contacts the fuse at the end and destroys it, but watch just before the wings detach. Can anyone else see a 2 pulse beat of the tail. If this occurred it could produce an aggressive nose high attitude causing the Gs to be exceeded and break the wing spars.
ChickertyChina 1 year ago
sad
mark1avia 1 year ago
who does stunts in a high winged caravan looking plane?
zeeptothemeep 1 year ago
Many stunt pilot push Non-stunt catagory aircraft past their limits during airshows. I have no problem with experienced stunt pilots doing that but this guy should have had a parachute or a BRS (airplane parachute). That would have saved him.
Jamesfromnyc 1 year ago
A memorial tribute vid would be much nicer than actually showing his death. Very poor taste. I'm assuming you showed the crash since I refused to watch.
sjtom57 1 year ago
that's awful....
his wings just fell off.
4leafmetal 1 year ago
That was a cool trick he did except i dont think he landed right
rick6195 1 year ago
What happened?
minimadmen1996 1 year ago
He was ok till he hit the ground.
driftability 1 year ago
OMG, was he ok?
miamad 2 years ago
lol the answer is "no"
spyydert 1 year ago
OVERSPEED!!!
ducker1942 2 years ago
About 12 seconds to reflect on that poor decision. Luckier than most?
schlusselmensch 2 years ago
Well. you can aerobat anything that flies if you've a mind to but a parachute and a way to get out is a damned good idea.
schlusselmensch 2 years ago
They pulled more G in that plane that could withstand
DanielMadrigalC 2 years ago 2
the plane wasnt being over stressed, it hit something in that cloud area, both wing tips snaped equaly and atteh same spot, at the precise same moment, and smacked intot he back tail fin.
Over stressed issues would nto produce such precision in the wing snaping
ratdoghippy 2 years ago
Yes it would, as both wings are exactly the same the pressure points would result in the same breakage point. The fact that he went through the cloud didn't help anyways.
Or Giselle was in a pissed of mood and karate chopped both wings off.
Both are valid
Duracellary 2 years ago
looks like he maybe got to VNE??
covingtonium 2 years ago
Something spooky happened here...wings just dont snap off like that!! It didn't look like it was being over stressed!!
I smell poor maintenance here!!!
ryanspeed 2 years ago
Wing spar integrity has nothing to do with maintenance ! Partenavia's were designed for normal and utility category flight. Its purpose was for observation and/or training, NOT aerobatics !!!!!!! You sound like a clueless news reporter with that comment .
flycubfly 2 years ago
BULLSHIT!! In almost 30 years of maitaining and flying aircraft the wing spar has EVERYTHING to do with maintenance!! Shirk a spar inspection...either I'll see you in court, Heaven or the other place!
The spar is the backbone of the wing and tranfers aerodynamic loads. Given any overlooked cracks corrosion or damge and you're playing with fire!!
I personally knew 3 people who were killed because a spar suddenly folded up..all of which were trace to issues with a cracked wing spar!
ryanspeed 2 years ago 7
ryan, can crack and failure fissures be easily detected?
Are airframe members made to be easily inspected or must there be teardown to see everything?
What happened here? Overstress from DNE as he began to pull up?
Shows that everything is equally strong.
robertgift 2 years ago
@robertgift
Crack and failure fissures be easily detected......It depends on the aircraft type.
Sure he started to climb right there at the last moment, but it didn't look like he put that much into it.
Theres a video of a C-130 that lost its wings from a cracked spar while figting fires in California. I believe it was traced to faulty maintenance!
ryanspeed 2 years ago
OK, the lowdown: The Partenavia P-68C was being used for manoeuvres for which it was not designed. The pilot was flying 27 knots past its never-exceed speed & attempted a high-G pull-up which broke the wings outboard of the nacelles, ruptured the fuel tanks, torque-loaded the tail and twisted it...and that was all. Sept. 11, 1983, Plainview, TX, N29561, report is in the NTSB database. To make this worse, the pilot was a Certified Flight Instructor.
SenorSpode 1 year ago 20
Thank you, spode.
I would never push towards DNE.
Nor would I even stress the aircraft.
Be always gentle.
robertgift 1 year ago
@SenorSpode Also a big part of the problem was that the plane was a tricycle gear.
MisterWillie060 1 year ago
@MisterWillie060 What's the significance of the landing gear configuration?
FlightLevelHeaded 1 year ago
@SenorSpode --- and he wrote the company (Partenavia) to tell them he was going to do it and they said "say your prayers".
dave0mary 7 months ago
@SenorSpode I was there when this happened. The pilot's wife was narrating the show. So sad to hear her screams when she knew he wa sabout to die.
Bbendfender 6 months ago
@robertgift Every aircraft requires an annual inspection by an A&P mechanic to remain airworthy. All access panels are opened up, mirrors and scopes are used, any problems are notated and marked for remedy. The Partenavia P68C was never intended for aerobatics such as this pilot put it through. There's a saying: "There's old pilots and there's bold pilots, but there's no old, bold pilots". Except Chuck Yeager, God bless him!
SenorSpode 6 months ago
@ryanspeed not with that kind of language you wont
spoon34 7 months ago
@spoon34 For crying out loud dude, is that all you can do....troll around and look for expletives to retort? Damn, get a life!
ryanspeed 7 months ago
I see you never replied back flycubfly...who sounds "clueless' now!?
ryanspeed 2 years ago
@ryanspeed
Agreed, suspect poor maintenance and not overstress but repeated stress which the airplane was not built for even if it was within limits. If you are going to fly stunts on the limit of what the airframe is capable of you will have to check it rigorously between every flight.
It seems this guy didn't know that, or didn't care.
33vortex 2 years ago
very sad..i will never watch video like that again
Diarvoli 2 years ago
The pilots name was Wes Winter-----He was truly a great pilot and was one of the 1st to do a triple ribbon cut
richflies 2 years ago
Partenavia......overstressed, bad pilot.
flyawaydavid 2 years ago
It's a good thing no one was hurt and the pilot walked away. The plane was repaired and is still in service.
uglysnotnosepunk 2 years ago
??? Was ist da passiert ???
boernsim 2 years ago
its a sky ???
babybaby2342 2 years ago
is that a commander?
CoonBabble 2 years ago
There was no roll. He/She is flying fast in level flight. It looks to all the world like a Twin Otter or Caravan (or similar). A high wing with two engines. No stunt plane. suddenly both wings break simultaneously just outside the engines. Really strange.
tim74660 2 years ago
Climbing too fast at too high of speed.
flanksteak2 2 years ago
too fast of an entry speed for that snap roll
djdecember 2 years ago
remember it was a snap maneuver he was doing-involves a rapid pull of the stick and rudder application-thtas why the wings snapped and the rudder twisted up-It was Wes Winter-a well know airshow pilot at the time.
johnnyjet33030 2 years ago
Whoa!!! Now I am not gonna try that stunt with any aircraft...
Chakmon212 2 years ago
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pvtjokerz 2 years ago
This happened on September 11th, 1983 at a airshow in Plainview, TX. The pilot was executing a high speed pass over the runway at about 250 ft above the ground. The pilot then began a rapid pull-up and both wings separated just outboard of the engine nacelles. The 'g' load at the time of the wing separations would have been 8.3 g's. The plane, a Partenavia P68C, was not design for so high a G load. The pilot was killed.
pvtjokerz 2 years ago 2
I remember a sad note to this that the pilots wife was commentating when it happened. she began to scream and they cut her microphone. The plane was not designed to pull g's like that. He had it register experimental to go airshow acts.
terran3276 2 years ago
Yep, somewhere on here there's another version of this in Japanese (?) with audio, but very poor quality.
camilleri63 2 years ago
Strange, he appears to be in straight and level flight. Doesn't look like a high-G manuever. Perhaps he pulled up sharply and it just isn't obvious in the video.
lbeagle 2 years ago
looks like the starts pulling up at about :08
hockeyguy2107 2 years ago
Thats exactly what happenned ... he pulled hard on the stick ... The wings were already highly stressed due to the overspeed & parasitic drag on the wings .. The wings snapped the moment a high G component was initiated.
xoio 2 years ago
Same thing happened to a CDF C-130 Helcules while fighting a fire here in Southern California..It's here on youtube.
motokid032 2 years ago
should have realised had no wings and bailed out
goldreserve 2 years ago
gah, sure, try to bail out while rotating turned on your head and that g.
Fliegertruppe 2 years ago 3
Yes, if they managed to unbuckle early then it would be impossible to open door and bail out. Probably had a chance when it stopped spinning but by then too low.
Obviously very sad and tragic for pilots and famillies
Can only ask why small planes like this are not fitted with "BRS" recovery chutes?
goldreserve 2 years ago 3
That WAS horrible! The pilot must have pulled too many "G's" which caused both wing tips to fail. I often watch planes fly overhead and hope I never see some planes wings fall off to watch someone fall to there death. I wish that those poor guys would've had a "BRS" recovery chute attached to that plane, they would've been here today if they had.
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why are you such a nigger u dumb nigger, he was in a airbus... airbus suck tats why it crashed
99F 2 years ago
LOL
pinchecabron666 2 years ago
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what a shit plane.. the wings just fell off
Guyza1geza 2 years ago
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fake! this looks like an rc plane
xprcsn7 3 years ago
why because rc planes look real?
idiot!
franktbird 2 years ago
Ah ha ha ha ha! That was good! :-D
roughrider040 2 years ago
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LOL!!!! Only 3 stars though... I need to see bodies, blood or appendages flying through the air for 4 or 5.
chrisvS3 3 years ago
dont have kids!
jwalsh8 3 years ago
Do you even have a soul??? This guy died dumbass.
jordan8705 3 years ago
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Good. He clearly wasn't a good enough pilot to survive what was obviously an easy maneuver. Eh... I'm just glad he's not breathing my air any more.
chrisvS3 3 years ago
You dumb fuck, I bet you don't even know anything about being a pilot. Useless cunt.
FlyFreebirdYeah 2 years ago 2
Ridiculous as dead.
mystrtube 3 years ago
I am not NTSB investigator, but it looks like a pilot pulled up too hard on high speed, overstressing the structure. However, if it's US crash and you know the tail number or date and time of the accident, you can find it in the NTSB database.
syeager9 3 years ago
just imagine... if you were the one flying that plane. Your life flashing before your eyes... what are you thinking about? This could be your LAST seconds of life and theres not a single thing you can do...
Butterfinger109 3 years ago
Those planes are ment for smuggling drugs, not acrobatics, a good piolet would have known that.
urmaninuniform09 3 years ago
funny... didnt see him do aerobatics. also acrobats do acrobatics..pilots to aerobatics. show some respect. and its spelt pilot.
jwalsh8 3 years ago
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I wonder what the last thing on his mind was when he hit the ground, besides his ASS! ..
Moltixar 3 years ago
lol
tazertaze 3 years ago
This is video of Wes Winter. He had worked out a nice routine with the Partenavia, but on this particula flight he overstressed the wing spar. The wing tip caps exploding as the spar flexed within the wing was the first indication of something wrong.
Wes was a nice guy, good businessman, and had a good reputation as an aircraft dealer. All of us that knew him still miss him - as well as several others of our community that died from various accidents of that era.
leewonnacott 3 years ago 14
Appeared to be an overspeed incident resulting in a simultanious catastrophic structural failure in both wings. Then lost the tail from a strike by the wing debris. Flying straight and level rules out excessive + g-loading... That's NOT a fast airplane and they were moving along pretty quickly....VNE is established for a reason..Prayers.
rnbeechhut 3 years ago
All seems pheasable but it did look like he tried to start a suuden climb...
planethaven 3 years ago
That was a lucky crowd
addlestone0977 3 years ago
it was a down burst or cross wind that riped the wings off
19iyaoyas85 3 years ago
wow your a real life idiot
hjlkfhyjdl 3 years ago 4
Partenavia P.68 was not made for acrobatics.
azkiid 3 years ago
Omg, this happened on September 11th 1983 O.o.
What did the plane hit? It seemed to hit something.... I just saw clouds
IcelandAnimeGirl 3 years ago
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lol r cplane
mjhgff 3 years ago
No it wasn't.
pete2778 3 years ago
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maybe it was an al kaida mission...
diricari 3 years ago
I wonder what he was thinking as the wings came off... it was an awful long time to wait until it hit the ground.
mpaton2006 3 years ago 2
thats why we invented the eject button
Blakhops 3 years ago
wow!!!
Fuckdencio 3 years ago
"Amen, I wish the idiots that do Barrel Rolls in normal catagory aircraft (and put the videos here) understood what your saying.."
barrel rolls are 1g moron load factor is unchanged
sicchevelle8 3 years ago
If properly executed.
Metal fatigue is a cumulative process and there were stress fractures in the main spar prior to the breakup. It's in the NTSB report, as I recall.....
Mbrowner1 3 years ago 2
He is not an engineer. my money says he is a pilot? All pilots know what the Vne of an aircraft is.
sharplesd 3 years ago
ummmm.... thats why u have a parachute poor dude
jetmechrb211 3 years ago
holy shit!!
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slayersaiez 3 years ago
rofl
pinchecabron666 3 years ago
All of you guys are wrong. The aircraft was not poorly built, the guy just exceeded Vne and yanked back on the stick causing the wings to rip off. The aircraft was not meant for aerobatics.
Mav1843 3 years ago
If you live outside the envelope, you die outside the envelope.
It happened in '89. South Florida.
Mbrowner1 3 years ago 2
Amen, I wish the idiots that do Barrel Rolls in normal catagory aircraft (and put the videos here) understood what your saying..
paulflyer 3 years ago 2
probaly hit a bird
emeraldlily1692 3 years ago
not enough glue?
sotos1950 3 years ago
a good example of what happens if you exceed the airplane's load factor limit.
luto2000 3 years ago
the only way he did that was the plane was underbuild the wings are ment to be dtrong enouth to stop the air batter at it oviosly this was not the case so the poor design of plane cause is fatal crash..
LET HIM R.I.P
skullythecreator 3 years ago
Obviously you are a engineer...
paulflyer 3 years ago
It's horses for courses, an aircraft designed for aerobatics can withstand more G's than the pilot can throw at it, this aircraft was never designed to perform the manouvres the pilot was attempting. This clip is a sobering reminder to all of those who think that they can get away with showing off in the wrong sort of aircraft: Aeroplanes bite fools. A sad loss for his family and a lesson to all who fly.
pete2778 3 years ago
it look like it wasshot down buy a hevy mashine gun
vivitar45 3 years ago
That's a nasty way to go. RIP mate.
KegRaider 3 years ago
Whats tragic about this is that, if you hear the version with sound, it is the pilots WIFE narrating the display, & you hear her grief as she witnesses her husband fall to his death! :-(
Unfortunately he was performing a stunt where he was already exceeding the maximum vel of the aircraft. In starting to pull a climb, he basically over-stressed & ripped the wings off.
Pilot Error basically, not taking enough due care & attention. Very sad. :-(
xoio 3 years ago
umm dead.....rip
jeckle21 3 years ago
Hey sattellite98, you would not be laughing if you were in that plane.
50centmnm 3 years ago
we can't die in this way... i'm really sorry
about it
GigibenRoma82 3 years ago
yeh WTF did he hit
sweethartowns 3 years ago
what the hell did he hit??????
LilReaper1010 3 years ago
nothing, he overstressed his aircraft, and ripped off the wings.
emperorgrant 3 years ago
The word at that time was that he did the loop at practice with low fuel levels in the wing tanks which did not stress the airframe to the same extent as it did when the stunt was done during the performance. The wings were topped off before the performance which led to the inevitable. and the last thing he saw was the earth slowly rising into his windshield at over 100 mph.
imnazhole 3 years ago
The wings were least of his worries. At 10 sec mark, you'll see the horiz. stabl "flare" (design flaw which caused 2 other P68's the same fate in "normal" flight years later), causing the plane to come to an "immediate stop" at which point the wings have no alt but to snap under the stress. If you don't believe me, look at the tail section on the way down, if the problem was just wings snapping off, that tail section would not be affected. However, it is barely hanging on due to the flaw.
linkb 3 years ago
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i dont no why i cant stop lafing
satellite98 3 years ago
it is because you don't know how to spell laughing
dyingtolive93 3 years ago 5
Elevator deflection could have stressed tail as well as wings.
niflap 3 years ago
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lol, funny as
illusions23 3 years ago
I remember this accident report a long time ago. The NTSB report says that he inquired of the mfr. if he could do the maneuver as planned. The mfr. said no - it would over-stress the outboard wing portion(s). He tried anyway. And ...
dave0mary 3 years ago
Thirteen seconds after the wings shred to contemplate one's passage into the infinite. Pretty grim.
satweavers 4 years ago
punch out goose !!
jettt111 4 years ago
That's NOT Cessna 182...That a twin
cherokee497 4 years ago
Ahhhh... Well thats what you get for trying to do stunts in a cessna 182
kaanxxx 4 years ago 2
This pilot had been pushing this plane before this video. This is a result of over stressing the wings on a plane that is used for charter flights and or skydivers.
grosspoluter2 4 years ago
Bummer.....
bobdamusicman 4 years ago
Hot dogging is trouble. Here's the proof.
Killface9 4 years ago
Man, that sucks. You know the pilot had time to think about things on the way down.
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cardiffnightowl 3 years ago 2
I read something about this in Flying mag. This was not an aerobatic airplane but the pilot had been flying the airshow circuit doing just that. The investigators found fatigue cracking throughout the spar.
RobertGary1 4 years ago
seen this some where else. he didnt seem to put too much force on the airframe it just folded up could be airframe failier. it might have been stressed more earlier on and the airframe gave up. sad loss.
cronauer1985 4 years ago
I guess he thought he was bob hoover
josenar145 4 years ago
wow thats sad...cockpit pointed straight down and went in
foxprogt 4 years ago