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  • Correct. Movie: Mother Lode, 1983, Nick Mancuso, Kim Basinger, Charlton Heston. Lake Lovelywater, BC, north of Vancouver. Crash was unintentional. Plane landed on glassy water, which is dangerous because you need some wave to gauge speed, height and rate of descent. Landed too fast, sunk too fast, flared too late, left float touched first, water drag did the rest. Nobody injured. The pane was salvaged, restored and lives life in the US now as N323RS.

  • There is more than one camera angle shown in this clip. It is obviously from a movie or similar. Accidents that arent planned are rarely caugnt by more than one camera angle unless it is a crowded major event like an airshow.

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  • It was an actual accident

  • Eseque ses un vrai avion

  • @S1ick10292 lmao hahah

  • If I remeber correctely the plane was crashed for the movie 'Motherlode' back in the eighties. I think the plane actually slid down a wire, as I saw a show on tv about the making of the movie.

  • @MR1flip thats De Havilland

  • there called seaplanes

  • Ok, and I just thought I wanted floats on my plane. No thanks!

  • It´s a Havilland

  • @SenorSpode

    For Float pilots: This could've been avoided by creating drag by crabbing the approach to slow down to safe touch down speed. careful not to crab at a nose up attitude. this takes practice without obstructions and knowing your rate of airspeed loss to descent ratio by feel AND gauges before attempting it. only attempt it when load weight is the same as practiced until you get great at it. This is a great training video for float ratings!

  • @SenorSpode

    You have it partially right. My family is a commercial bush flying family. You dont ever rely on watching the water for airspeed to touch down. This pilot simply forced a landing to early putting the float beyond its forward limit.Happens a lot on small lakes mainly with obstructions around it.Simply put,Young Bold Pilot out to prove themselves=Not an old pilot.Nice FAA incident report to keep you from flying commercially.Thanks for creating more job security for me!Tard.

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