Turboprop Crash

[rhysybum]

What went wrong or what was he trying to do?

[micheledc]

DAMN!!! what a hole on the ground!!! bad trimmed during T/O? bad balanced?

[5387471]

Sad hate to see it

[popceed]

Failure due to control yolk locks not being checked {OFF) before takeoff...

[EpicFlyer889]

Best camp fire eva!!! :D

[pogachini]

it's not a turboprop. Aircraft is a Caribu. Radial engine. cheers

[buckachiddy]

@pogachini Wrong. It was supposed to be a test flight after the conversion to PT6/A turboprops. The PIC left the gust locks on meaning the a/c vertical axis was uncontrollable and stall was inevitable.

[pogachini]

@buckachiddy ahh sorry mate right you are, just read the canada TSB report, thanks for the clear up.

[OSeamus61]

@buckachiddy Actually, that would be the lateral or transverse axis around which the aircraft rotates its pitch.

[xoio]

@pogachini

Actually a little wrong in this case. This was a crash in 1992, the Caribou had been converted to turboprop & this was its first test flight. Stupidly the pilot in command failed to remove the control surface locks, thus had no elevator control .. A basic failure of preflight proceedures.

Here's the full video ... read the posters description.

watch?v=g59YfnN_ArU

[SenorSpode]

@pogachini This Caribou was a conversion to turboprop by NewCal Aviation. N400NC. It crashed in Gimli, Manitoba on August 27, 1992. Check out the other videos of this crash here, which are longer. Also, radials do not make that sound. Cheers.

[737boeing8]

@SenorSpode

Gimli---Same place that the infamous Gimli Glider landed at? Woah!

[SenorSpode]

@737boeing8 Yep, same airport. The east runway is still in operation and the decommissioned west runway was a dragstrip. The Gimli Glider 767 landed on the dragstrip.

[737boeing8]

@SenorSpode

Wow! Thanks!

[Sjstowik]

I hope you know that was me and im still alive, yet the government didn't want this to be online. It was a miracle!

[hammr25]

@MadCat2048 The pilot did a 360 and walked away

[sosome57]

Don't you just know he was saying, "Aw, fuck." Tragic.

[GreenFiles]

Did he make it?

[thewritingwriterof89]

@GreenFiles What does your heart tell you? *rolls eyes...

[WarNerd16]

"Remove Before Flight" much?

[134952015]

good mam

[aerobatic500]

What I read about the gustlocks was true.. it was a pitch problem,, Not roll.

[pelagic6]

OUCH!!

[MrExspert]

it's not fake. I've seen the entire footage from takeoff to crash. Tried to take off with the gust locks installed, never had a chance.

[danetrain0101]

This airplane doesn't have gust locks. It crashed because it had just had all primary control cables replaced and they reversed the aileron cables. The pilot tried to turn left, but the plane went right. He tried to turn left harder and the plane just rolled right into the ground.

[MrExspert]

Problem is, the plane crashed due to overpitch, NOT roll. If the plane had a roll control problem it would have "rolled" into the ground, instead of pitching over. I'm definitely not an exspert on this particular plane, but this was a pitch problem.

[danetrain0101]

@MrExspert I know you are probably right because you are the expert, but the NTSB strongly disagrees with you.

[amphibolejar]

This looks like the crash of an experimental STOL flight in Winnipeg, Canada.

[Metromechanic]

@amphibolejar no, it was in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada

[marcvie9]

fake

[Gahlgarath]

Why did that stupid asshole didn't filmed the whole thing...

[jediluis019]

and i agree with toober52

[jediluis019]

poor pilot lets take a minute 4 a moment of silence and prayer 4 the brave pilot who tryed the stunt. r.i.p.

[jfl187]

stunt? he left the gust locks on the elevators and had no pitch control. watch the full vid and you will see that no one with any amount of experince would take off like that in a plane that big.

[Justinh789]

@jediluis019 It wasn't a stunt they had just taken off you can see it in other videos, they have forgotten to remove the control locks resulting in the aircraft lifting off without them having control of it

[RandomCaptionVideos]

@jediluis019 Ummm ...... NO !

[watcher818]

Toober52, I agree with you.

What a bunch of jerks with the asinine coments. Don't some of these poor excuses for humans have a freaking life? Learn about what you are seeing, before making comments about a tragic incident, and saying something is fake.Also,learn something about how precious life is. IF and when you grow up, you will realize how absurd your comments are.

[DougRodrigues]

Somebody else commented about checking control freedom prior to takeoff. What happened to me once was it was raining. I just jumped and fired it up. Controls free, instruments set, fuel on fullest tank, flap where I wanted them (up), radios tuned. I wanted to get out of there before the thunder boomers moved in. Throttled up and got rolling down the runway. Opps..something wrong? No airspeed indication? I forgot to take the pitot tube cover off! So it happens. Some people get killed.

[DougRodrigues]

The original explanation was that somebody forgot to take the elevator lock off the plane.

[sreqwq]

wat do u mean by that?

[DougRodrigues]

Parked airplanes have control locks installed so that the wind doesn't bang the control surfaces from stop to stop. This plane had just had the two piston engines removed, and two new prop jet turbine engines hung on the wings.  The story I got was that the pilot wanted so badly to take it up, he forgot to release the elevator control lock. If you take a look a the elevator surface, it doesn't move down to lower the nose. It's locked in one position, hense..the wingover into the ground.

[DougRodrigues]

Oh, I just noticed that this isn't the original video. The original showed the plane taking off, to where you could see the stuck elevator. Maybe you can find that video somewhere on this site.

[sreqwq]

ohhhh. so thats wat happened. thanx for explaining

[giles3213]

ITS PROBS NOT EVEN A real plane its probs dummy 1 withc they test stuff on :D

[Tucuxi3]

Christ, what happened??

[krbosak]

this is DH caribou crash

[toober52]

People died in that crash, you bunch of insensitive fucks. You are the lowest form of life.

[omgroy1587]

ouch :O

[SpeedoBurpgunRapture]

That was a good solid crash, I give it a 6.5,but only becuse of the angle of attack and the degree of difficulty.The explosion at the end was a nice touch.

[summers190]

GREAT REPLY,

[BlAhHaDaBoY123]

agree

[edculwick]

wnakers

[DXVBHHTR]

he has PLENTY of time now to think about

his mistake!

[edculwick]

wanker

[Ecopolo94]

great now im scared the plane im going on next wekk is going to crash:(:(

[Nfarce]

Classic example of not following a checklist and being preoccupied with something seemingly more important: managing a new turboprop power plant on a test flight. Control locks are very hard to miss, especially when checking the freedom of flight controls prior to takeoff. Oops. I guess they forgot that too. RIP.

[waverly24]

If you watch the whole video, the pilot puts the aircraft into a very steep climb that even with turboprop engines resulted in a stall to the right--and loss of aircrew and craft.

[SenorSpode]

The Caribou had been converted to turbine 3 years prior in the US. All Caribous had the throttles which locked when the cabin-mounted control gust lock was on to prevent the aircraft from moving; This feature was defeated for the new, different turbine controls. The gust lock was still on at take-off and was not released. Both occupants died, August 1992, Gimli Manitoba.

[c150gremlin]

DeHavilland DHC-4 Caribou.

[JC19903000]

That aint a turbo prop lol its full size init ~? oh wel hehe bad crash like ouch !!!!

[comradeboris]

turboprop has nothing to do with what size the plane is.....all that turboprop means is that the propellor is powered by a turbine....

[channel3173]

DC10?

*snickersz*

[Superchad245]

what kind of plane was that