Cessna 172 Crash

Orlando, Florida


One of the most tragic videos I have. This is a Cessna 172 carrying an instructor and his students. After total engine failur, the instructor decides to land on a golf course. He overshoots the approach, catches some power lines, and impacts a pole. The instructor dies immediately; the student recovers completely.

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[winterka100]

Foreward to fly--Back to die.

[WithRico]

wow that car driver just kept going.......

incosiderate

[lardman2228]

@CFITOMAHAWK2 How do you know it was a nice golf course to land in if you only saw this video? Most golf courses are inadequate to land in anyway because there aren't actually that many flat parts, and there are numerous obstructions like trees and bunkers etc. I'm not saying no one should learn from this, I'm saying you shouldn't criticize if you don't know the whole story.

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

@lardman2228

Thanks for telling me not to be mindful and to ignore the main causes of USA GA problems I face. This video is a lesson to millions of pilots all over the world. Now go change your diapers and let me think of WTF this "CFI" traded a nice Golf Course landing for a narrow road with cars, wires and poles. He met one. The hard way. This video is a Pilot Lesson.

[lardman2228]

@CFITOMAHAWK2 I'm not saying they're heroes, I'm saying you shouldn't criticize. 

[lardman2228]

@TheMeslava When I was being taught, I was taught that you should pitch up to convert the excess speed you have into altitude and once you get to best glide and then trim to maintain that speed. Maybe you were taught differently but that's how I was taught.

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

@jvs7777

If he didnt head for the road instead of the golf course next to it, he didn't have to avoid any cars, wires or poles. Some pilots are so afraid of grass landings they will do anything to go for a road. They panic and think about the road surface only, not the obstructions on it until it is too late to change fields and hit something on the road or next to it. Still don't get it? Take some grass runway Lessons and get rid of that "Grassphobia". Cant you see the results clearly here?

[jvs7777]

CFITOMOHAWK:

Dear Sir: Yes, The pilot is a hero. I know the student whose life was saved as a result of this CFI's bravery. I'm confused how anyone would comment that his intentional avoidance of avoiding a collision with that SUV isn't heroic?!?!?!?!?!? It was the lives in the SUV, or their own lives when collision with that electric pole, he chose his own. This is the final dialogue I will have with you, sir.

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

@lardman2228 I landed thousands of times on short or unpaved runways. Bush Pilot Instructor. The CFI's frozed, didn't do a forward slip and kept going to the houses, wires and poles and cars on road. If wires didn't turn the plane like that they could have hit cars on the road at 60 mph. Simple to see that. The wires and poles act like an electric net over a road. Avoid roads under 4 lanes. Most times you hit something hard or expensive. But if you panic, you want the road, you can't think well.

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

@jvs7777

How can you call this fatal bad judment crash excellent and skillfull? Post a video of you doing that excellent landing on wires and poles yourself, please. Can't wait to see you hitting a pole like that.

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

@lardman2228

I can't believe how can someone praise this crash and call the pilots heroes too. No wonder USA GA has such a embarrasing Pilot Error rate.

With pilots like these we don't need terrorist over us.

[CFITOMAHAWK2]

@IceB717

How the hell you know I never had an engine failure? And the rest of youtube community of pilots here never ever too? How do you know? And who does not know that roads have a lot more hazards than Golf Courses? You can easily hit poles, wires, cars, houses, people, etc. Golfers you can see easily from 500 feet away and avoid them.