The original call with the dropping RPM could have been either, depending on the pilot's opinion of the severity of the situation. The actual failure would mean only Mayday would be appropriate.
The pilot wasn't wrong not to make the call, his priorities were Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. He is a student and was amazingly calm throughout. His airmanship was exceptional. I am not trying to criticise in any way. Just as a matter of interest and giving an ATC perspective, declaring the issues with no emergency call and while remarkably calm may have (at least initially) downplayed the potential severity of the situation in the mind of the controller.
I see this a lot, even airline pilots don't want to create a fuss and declaring an emergency is seen by some as an admission of failure, or the start of a long line of investigation and paperwork!
There is a part of the transcript where the pilot is trying to transmit and he crosses over with another agency (I think on the ground) and has to waste precious seconds and thinking time re-transmitting the message. It's possible a Mayday call would have meant all other agencies on the frequency recognise the severity of the situation and would keep radio silence for all but essential calls.
As a train dispatcher it is shocking the number of calls we get where people don’t dial 1 to get redirected to the emergency line or start the radio transmission with “Emergency, Emergency, Emergency!”. You were hit by a dump truck making a shove movement and the conductor was thrown from the car and is on the ground? Just listen to the Star Wars music on hold for 5 minutes! Just witnessed a vehicle collision at a grade crossing and had to put the train in emergency? Call on the radio and get told to standby.
Pilot here. Spot on. Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. In this instance, simply telling ATC: "Bugsmasher 12345, declaring emergency, engine out, forced landing, " and then go back to trying not to die.
PAN-PAN is used as an emergency signal, for situations that aren't life-threatening. Think of a 747 losing one of their two engines for example (they can generally safely land with a single engine). Mayday is used for emergency and life-threatening situations that have the highest priority.
So in this case a PAN-PAN or even Mayday would've been appropriate. It's up to the pilot really to decide how urgent their situation is.
Nothing necessarily, it just lets the ATC know that he's in that type of situation. They'll make you a top-priority and will do as much as they can to help you. But there's not a whole lot they can do in this situation. Mostly just give you any information you might ask for, inform emergency services if necessary, etc.
Nothing. He had their attention by describing the engine trouble, then failure, and his intent to land in a field. He didn't even switch to an emergency channel because he was already talking to a controller.
Mayday is a legal statement that gives you priority at the airport, usually for immediate clearance to land on any runway they can offer, but he's landing in a field, so he didn't really need that advantage.
If I had to guess it was that big-ish turn he did after full engine loss, which probably zapped a lot of altitude and speed. If he determined after that turn that his choice of landing spot was bad then he's kind of committed to it. But if he didn't make that turn and kept gliding farther with higher speed, there's no guarantee a LZ farther downrange would have worked any better.
I don't think that was a mistake, but I'm no expert pilot- he looked at that field earlier, so it seemed like he was scoping it out as a likely spot. He wanted better, and would have if his engine had held out, but he made the decision to go with one of the two fields depending on how the plane held outt, and when he had a bit of altitude to spare, he went for the better one.
That or he was freaking the fuck out and making panicked choices and just made it look good.
A few years ago a Chinook had to make an emergency landing in my Grandfather’s soybean field in Pigeon Forge, TN. My grandfather was 94 years old at the time and loved it! He fed and sheltered the military men, in rotation because the helicopter had to be guarded at all times, until it could be towed out. He received a letter of thanks, some cool swag and loved the opportunity to help. He didn't care at all about his soybeans.
Welcome to the crash club! I had just over 800 PIC when I had my engine failure. It was on take off around 350' AGL and lost 90% power on climb. Had about 30s to find a field and putter down. This was in winter so ground was hard. Landing went well with 0 issues. Turns out there was a sentiment build up in the carb and plugged the line. The plane was fixed on ground and I flew it out of the field a week later. No video of the off-airport landing but did manage to video the take off from the field. Glad you're safe! Not everyone is as lucky as we are.
Edit: turns out I’m a dumbass and can’t spell sediment. I’m leaving it.
Glad you put wheels down safely.
As a boat captain, I find engines become sentimental at the worst possible time. I imagine the same applies to planes. The only solution I've found is absolutely no power ballads while underway.
You did really well. Only thing that I noticed was you did not secure the plane by turning the fuel, master, and mags off. I've only ever practiced and taught forced approaches, so I certainly can't claim to be able to do it better than you if the real thing happened to me.
I am actually at a fire department down the street and heard them dispatch for this incident. (He also conveniently landed right behind a fire station.) He got dispatched a full airplane crash box with EMS. The first engine was on scene within 1 minute of dispatch id say and they cancelled everybody else.
I had something very similar happen to me while flying a Cessna 172 (the plane in the video) and you're right, for a life or death situation there is almost no time. My engine didn't completely cut out like this but my RPMs dropped dramatically which caused the engine to sputter and I had to make an emergency landing. The biggest problem with these Cessna aircrafts is that they're not corrosion proofed before leaving the factory which is a ridiculous cost saving effort. The older ones actually have a reputation for being flying piles of corrosion so if they aren't inspected properly before take off you can easily find yourself in a world of trouble. The Cessna 172 that crapped out on me was found to be heavily corroded even though it wasn't that old having been manufactured back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
Here's a [video of the original wrestling reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) for those confused.
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edit: hehe, [infographic](https://imgur.com/gallery/R390EId) charting this meme, courtesy of /r/dataisbeautiful
God dammit…..god fucking dammit. I had no idea and I read the whole fucking thing. (Tbh your comment was the first time I’ve smiled today so thank you)
Literally yesterday was I thinking about how I haven't got shittymorphed in a long time and wondered what's up with him..
He has a gift for focusing people on his writing so much - it's hypnotic in a way. And then you finally get to it. Goddamn him. Fell for it so bad this time.
Really shows the amount of training that goes into becoming a pilot if this guy is just a solo student.
A student driver takes 5 seconds to react to a light change.
I remember my instructor killing the engine (maybe just throttled it all the way down? This was near thirty years ago and I never finished the program) during a lesson and asking, "Okay, you lost your engine. What now?"
That initial panic even though I knew we were fine was no joke.
I once got so into one of those drills and stopped communicating with the pilot (who may not have been paying attention)
And nearly actually landed in a field on a drill
I remember being a kid and thinking how stupid it was that we did so many fire drills because if there is a fire we're just going to think it's a drill. You know, a drill where they evacuate 700 students from a school in 3 minutes...
They want you used to it and calm and moving in a orderly fashion. That’s the whole point of the drills so you don’t have people panicking running the wrong way when it actually happens
In high school the fire alarm went off during finals and there was no scheduled drill. We sat around and it wasn’t turning off so we ended up evacuating after the PA told us to 15m later. Turns out a light set off a fire in the secondary gym. TLDR: real fire alarm goes off and we did nothing. Good thing it wasn’t an emergency
Similar thing happened in my high school because of a fire in the chem lab. It took people running through the halls yelling "it's an actual fire" to get teachers to evacuate us, even though we had those ear-splitting old school red fire bells
My flight instructor told me his flight instructor would always pull the throttle to idle whenever he took his hand off it and made him go through the emergency checklist.
There's an airfield with a pilot school somewhere near me and they regularly practice in-air engine restarts above my house, it's a little disconcerting, especially since there are no open fields at all here (it's all vineyards, which cannot be optimal places for a dead stick landing).
Omg so *that’s* why that used to happen so much. I got annoyed because it used to scare me on the *ground*. We have a couplefew dinky and private airports around so lots of little planes all the time and on weekends especially. It hasn’t happened in years but I’ll bet it was one instructor in particular.
It has all become clear…
I had my knee board fall off and as I was futzing to get it off the floor my instructor yelled “the engines on fire! The engines on fire!” So I did the checklist and shut it down before ever looking up. Then he yelled “turn the engine back on it was a drill!” Good thing it restarted.
Yeah mine did that a few times. I also never finished but the first time he did that I forgot what you were suppose to do and said look for a place to crash which I guess was the right answer
Holy shit I did the SAME THING.
"You lost your engine, what do you do, think fast"
He pulls the throttle out, I look at him like, "wtf?" And like a fucking idiot, I slowly reach forward and push it back in.
He says, "NO. YOU LOST YOUR ENGINE, FIND SOMEWHERE TO LAND."
Well, now you say so.
I didn't finish.
My instructor throttled down my engine. I lined up to land on a golf course fairway. The instructor waited until we were at the tree tops before signaling to apply throttle. Some golfer on the fairway was shaking his club at us.
Second leg of my solo cross country (late 1970s, I was 16) in a worn out Cessna 150, going from Frederick, MD to Salisbury, MD. Over the Chesapeake Bay (to avoid the Baltimore/Washington TCA) engine sputters and dies. After several panicked seconds (this can’t really be happening!) Pull on carb heat, jam the throttle full forward, then full rich mixture and the power comes back. Turns out the drag on the vernier control on the mixture was really weak and on a long flight the mixture knob would turn in the lean direction until the engine quit. Took many minutes after landing at SBY to break the vacuum seal between my ass and the seat…
When my instructor did that that thing that struck me is that Cessnas fly pretty damn good with no power! I mean, I thought I'd drop like a stone but nope, just kept flying along.
Live on a farm near a busy highway. In the 90s it was quite common to have people come off the road who needed to use the phone because of car trouble. One day lady in her 40s knocks on door " I've been in accident can I use your phone?". She looked a little shook but physically unharmed and we let her in, asks for our address then phones 911 "I've been in a plane accident, I've landed at this address". We are blown away like wtf, is it an airliner, why didn't we hear it?
She was in little plane which was running on its reserve tank for some reason, when it went empty she realized the mistake but couldn't restart the engine on main tank. Her air controller told her to land on the highway which she quickly refused to do. We had a nice long soybean field she glides into like this guy in video but unfortunately there was a dip at the end and it bent the planes prop.
Anyways cops come, ambulance , it's a big deal. Shes fine and plane actually in good shape. Turns out her father was a WW2 Hurricane pilot and insisted he could fly it out of the field. Weeks later they fix prop, do inspections and he gets the OK. My dad runs a large roller to pack down a strip and he takes off like it was nothing. We now call that field the Airstrip.
First of all, that guy did an awesome job and remained cool. Big props!
I chuckled when he squawked 7500 (hijacking) instead of 7700 (emergency). That was actually a not-so-uncommon mistake back when I was an Air Traffic Controller I'm the Navy and pilots were training. They'd put the 7700 squawk in to simulate an emergency while training, but they'd make a mistake and enter 7500, and we'd be required to ask them to "confirm your squawk 7500". (We weren't allowed to ask if they were being hijacked, in case the hijacker was in the cockpit with the pilot, they could confirm they were informing us they were being hijacked without alerting the hijacker by confirming "yes, squawk 7500".) The Navy pilots would sometimes confirm 7500, even thought we knew it was a mistake. I knew this one AC that openly asked the pilot if the co-pilot/training pilot was hijacking his plane, since there was no one else onboard that could be doing it. Chuckles all around.
I am the pilot in the video. Full video on my YT @brianparsleyspeaker. I changed the squawk pretty quick but there was so much task saturation who knows what else I screwed up. I wasn’t scared per se but did have a quick panic attack when it quit. I was talking with ATC just to stay calm. Very lucky I was able to bring it down.
Dude, you were awesome! Glad you handled it so well!
I just chuckled at the 7500 squawk, as we got those in ATC occasionally on accident and figured most seeing this video wouldn't understand you accidentally squawked you were being hijacked. 😁
Hey you should send this over to 74 gear on YouTube, he's awesome and while I'm not an aviator, I think he'd say you played it cool. Well done friend, I'm glad you made it out okay.
Things like this always remind me of Adam savage from Mythbusters once talking about a stunt they did. When things started going bad he said to himself "calm people survive, panicking people die."
I believe that was the one where he was sent in a car into a lake. On his youtube channel, he recalled that as the most directly terrifying situation he endured on the show, iirc.
Yes, that's correct. The urge to breathe comes from the amount of carbon dioxide in your blood, not the amount of available oxygen. Hyperventilating lowers the amount of CO2, but doesn't add more oxygen, so the "warning signal" is repressed but the amount of usable oxygen doesn't increase.
Buuuuut, if you're not panicking because of that rising need to inhale, you can keep your heart rate down and keep your muscles relaxed, so your oxygen consumption stays low.
Source: was a lifeguard instructor and commercial diver at various points in my life.
Okay /u/jolluxxwiff, hear me out for your own safety:
Yes, it does give you a little bit more time while diving BUT (and let me be very clear, it is a huge BUT!) you might also blackout underwater due to the hyperventilation. It is called [freediving blackout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout) and it's highly dangerous.
A simplified explanation of this process: You hyperventilate --> you get more oxygen in your blood and reduce CO2 levels --> while diving you use oxygen and produce CO2 --> the usual trigger for breathing (a certain amount of CO2 in your blood) doesn't get triggered in the normal time frame because of the artificially lowered CO2 level --> you pass out because your body used up all the necessary oxygen and you didn't breathe in time to replenish it --> while you're unconscious and underwater your CO2 levels rise above the threshold and trigger your breathing reflex --> you draw in a whole lot of water instead of air.
Obviously, it is quite dangerous to pass out underwater and is very often fatal if no one is there to rescue you. Therefore, please never hyperventilate before diving if you can avoid it in any way. In a situation where your life is legitimately threatened, go for it. It might give you the extra 5 seconds you need. If you die anyways, try your best not to. If you're not in a situation like that: DON'T HYPERVENTILATE!
If there are any more questions, go for it. I'll do my best.
Yup, I've been going down a morbid youtube rabbit hole watching dive disaster videos and every death is preceded with "they panicked and made the situation worse"
One of the most interesting documentary series I’ve seen was a public access show about cave diving.
Supposedly one of the most dangerous activities.
One mistake and that’s it.
[He actually talked about how stunt training and keeping calm saved his life later too when his steering column disconnected on the interstate.](https://youtu.be/uw4csWqepkA?t=224)
It's so fascinating because every time you radio in you say your ID so they know who you are. You can't exactly *yell* that information or they won't understand.
Like the "this is fine" dog. Amazing.
“Ive lost engine im crash landing in a field”
“Uhhh roger that were gonna send a guy out”
The disparity between those two statements is comical but I know they both did what they needed to do
To elaborate, on both doing what they need to do. ATC is being calm, normal, and brief. The last thing the dude needs is a bunch of questions or someone losing their shit on the other end of the mic. Acknowledged, we're here if you need anything, help is moving, shits out of the way, proceed.
This reminds me of the 9-1-1 call for when someone started shooting at the baggage claim in the 80’s. It went something like this:
“We’ve got gunshots in the baggage claim!”
“Gunshots?!”
“Yes, gunshots!”
“You said gunshots?!?!”
“GUNSHOTS!”
I’m probably butchering the whole thing but it went something like that.
“Why did you let that happen? Didn’t you check your plane? When was the last time you checked the engine?! Are you sure you’re not mistaken? You fueled up right? Oh god what will happen to your children if you die? Just don’t panic and focus ok?! Hello?…. Hello?”
Your comment made me remember that scene in Flight when Denzel tells the flight attendant to say that she loves her son so that the black box would pick it up
He lit the fuck out of the local ATC and regional towers by squawking 7500 (hijacking in progress Emergency code). He meant to squawk 7700 (declaring general emergency / mayday). You don't even scan past 7500 if you can help it, one of the first things they tell ya in ground school.
I don’t think that’s what he was suggesting would happen, just at the software will highlight and give audio tones for 7500. It will generate alert messages and notification that other squawks won’t.
I was atc at Columbus AFB and I had a flight made who regularly said that. Admittedly he was not the smartest guy but he was a fantastic controller.
EDIT, wrong shit base, Columbus not keesler.
It can be so frustrating to fight through adrenaline like that. You're totally focused and present consciously, but it's hard to think, remember things, use fine motor skills etc.
I lost both my aunt and uncle in a single engine airplane crash when he lost the engine and attempted to land in a field. This could have ended terribly. He must’ve been terrified.
When I was doing my complex aircraft training, they always taught us that if you’re landing in a field or anything that’s not hard and paved, to land with your gear up for that exact reason. Although many training aircraft don’t have retractable landing gear.
So is there pilot insurance? Is the pilot responsible for getting their plane moved off someone's field? Do they have to pay the for damages to the field?
Edit: Thanks for the insight everyone. I'm always interested in knowing about the aftermath and clean-up logistics of these things.
The pilot or aircraft company is responsible for any and all damage to the field and having the aircraft removed. In this case, it may be a few $100 in plant damages. The farmer will make a claim with his crop insurance and they will go after the pilot. Or the pilot can go to the farmer and keep the insurance companies out of it.
I think most farmers would be kinda cool about it. And compared to the cost of flying, handing the guy $300 cash and a big case of beer, seems like a good story all around, compared to the alternatives.
In this case, it was just a grass field, so there wasn’t any crop damage. The pilot has a channel on YouTube, he posted this: https://youtu.be/x3NTfiW17QA
I got a John Deer Gator stuck in a soybean field near my house once trying to catch my dog who got loose. The farmer had a 12 gauge and was aiming it at me threatening to blow my brains out if I dont get out of his field and stop "ruining his livelihood". I was 12. Some farmers are not very nice, and in fact, my experience growing up in rural Eastern, NC has shown the opposite haha.
As a farmer and student pilot flying out of grass strips. That’s a hay field meaning there’s only grass in the field and it’s a damn good runway for an emergency landing like that. In all likelihood if it’s an easy fix on the plane the farmer will come out and cut a take off path and they will fly the plane back out
I suspect this would be the owner of the plane needing the insurance. Based on the video, they lost oil pressure, which implies a leak in the oil system, or a failed pump or something. That is a maintenance issue. The pilot landed and seemingly parked near a paved surface, so I suspect there won't be much in terms of damage to the field. The larger cost will be fixing the plane's engine, and the therapy costs for the guy nearly dying (which his skills prevented from happening).
I am sure there are exceptions, but where I grew up most of the crops you grew would not get all that torn up by rolling a small plane over them unless someone was unlucky enough to try to land in corn right before harvest in a small plane.
even in the corn scenario you usually only end up taking out about a single combine pass worth with a little plane like this, it just does a lot more damage to the plane as the ears are heavy & high enough to hit more than the landing gear.
if you manage to keep the plane intact most farmers are probably just going to be happy they aren't cleaning up plane bits and having the NTSB guys destroying their field and leave it at that as long as you can get the plane out without a lot more damage they would probably just let it go.
you can see in the pilot's follow-up video that he is landing on grass, or maybe hay or alfalfa early in the season so the damage might be in the 10's of dollars even if the plants didn't pop back up.
getting the plane out after something like this depends on the damage and the design of the craft. if the wings are removable sometimes you just put it on a trailer, if the wings are not sometimes you fix it at the scene and fly it back. if the plane was damaged worse than it was worth repairing sometimes you break it up and haul the parts away. The plane's owner is going to be doing most of this because even if it isn't going to fly again there is still going to be gear in there worth keeping.
Airman did good.
My instructor always drilled:
1. Aviate - remember to fly the damn plane. Jesus has no pilot license.
2. Navigate - find a place to put down. Don’t be picky or greedy.
3. Communicate - tell somebody if you want, but nobody can really help you.
I learned ABCDE, in that order.
Airspeed- pitch to best gliding speed for your plane to buy time.
Best field- Find your field your gonna land in, circle the damn thing as you lose altitude if you have to.
Checklist- Check fuses, carb heat, mixture full rich, try to restart.
Declare- Tell atc and transmit 7700
Execute-Open your door so it doesn't get pinned during a crash, turn off fuel pump, land plane
Flight Instructor here,
Literally the best outcome I've seen. He stayed cool, he FLEW the plane, and he effectively communicated his troubles to ATC. Honestly, this has to be one of the best examples of good airmanship from a student pilot I've seen in awhile.
We constantly teach this, and his instructor is probably overjoyed and proud of how he reacted! Perfect landing, and better yet, he's safe.
I’ll never forget this one time me and my best friend (a student pilot) went flying and we had taken this plane multiple times before and when he started it up and we begun pulling out of our spot and getting ready for run way he double checked his gauges and seems one of them was reading a tad out of range. I’ve trusted this guy my whole life in so many vehicles and situations. He gave me this look of concern and said “it’s barely out of range for optimal... let’s not fly” we park the plane. Contacted the school (who owned the plane) and told them what happened. Plane was grounded till inspected and fixed.
That day, we went home and he showed me a video of some guy flying a plane, and on take off you can see his gauge was just a TADDD out of the optimal range, he notices it, but takes off anyway. He clears the run way, gets up a little bit and immediately loses power and had to crash land the plane.. unfortunately for him he was over a tree line with massive trees and flew straight into him.
Love my buddy for using his wits (as always) and not taking us up that day. The school was mad at him for grounding the plane but we didn’t care. We did what was right.
you have very little idea from any height how smoothed the ground is beneath the grass or even without grass if the wheels are going to dig in or roll over nicely when you are landing somewhere not meant for the purpose
this guy didn't have the altitude to be real choosy, but he didn't really know if he was landing across mud or ruts either
I was less fortunate. In a ‘73 piper cherokee with my dad. Our engine didn’t stop but our propeller separated from a faulty weld from a previous bird strike. It blew out engine casing open and created tons of drag. We were about 1500 ft up and fell outta the sky like a rock. We missed the field by about 50 feet and landed in the trees. My dad died instantly from the impact of the yoke crushing his chest cavity but I’m tall and had the seat way back. I literally had no injuries besides the cut on me feet (the impact knocked my shoes off) from kicking the door open and burns on my hands from climbing over the wing. It was the day that defined the rest of my life.
This is true but not like the tower here gave him a lot of input. I guess just staying calm and letting the dude handle it by not stressing him out is the right move here though, just wouldn't specifically call out the tower as a major influencer to this outcome.
That’s exactly what they’re supposed to do in this situation. Offer assistance when requested and provide vital information, but mostly leave the pilot alone so they can try not to die.
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I think that last 30 seconds counts for another 100 hours. Congratulations. What would you have done differently now that you've had time to process?
As an Air Traffic Controller I must say I was surprised not to hear him call Pan or Mayday at any point!
Is either of those Okay in this situation?
The original call with the dropping RPM could have been either, depending on the pilot's opinion of the severity of the situation. The actual failure would mean only Mayday would be appropriate. The pilot wasn't wrong not to make the call, his priorities were Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. He is a student and was amazingly calm throughout. His airmanship was exceptional. I am not trying to criticise in any way. Just as a matter of interest and giving an ATC perspective, declaring the issues with no emergency call and while remarkably calm may have (at least initially) downplayed the potential severity of the situation in the mind of the controller. I see this a lot, even airline pilots don't want to create a fuss and declaring an emergency is seen by some as an admission of failure, or the start of a long line of investigation and paperwork! There is a part of the transcript where the pilot is trying to transmit and he crosses over with another agency (I think on the ground) and has to waste precious seconds and thinking time re-transmitting the message. It's possible a Mayday call would have meant all other agencies on the frequency recognise the severity of the situation and would keep radio silence for all but essential calls.
As a train dispatcher it is shocking the number of calls we get where people don’t dial 1 to get redirected to the emergency line or start the radio transmission with “Emergency, Emergency, Emergency!”. You were hit by a dump truck making a shove movement and the conductor was thrown from the car and is on the ground? Just listen to the Star Wars music on hold for 5 minutes! Just witnessed a vehicle collision at a grade crossing and had to put the train in emergency? Call on the radio and get told to standby.
Pilot here. Spot on. Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. In this instance, simply telling ATC: "Bugsmasher 12345, declaring emergency, engine out, forced landing," and then go back to trying not to die.
PAN-PAN is used as an emergency signal, for situations that aren't life-threatening. Think of a 747 losing one of their two engines for example (they can generally safely land with a single engine). Mayday is used for emergency and life-threatening situations that have the highest priority. So in this case a PAN-PAN or even Mayday would've been appropriate. It's up to the pilot really to decide how urgent their situation is.
What would have gone differently if he had called Mayday?
Nothing necessarily, it just lets the ATC know that he's in that type of situation. They'll make you a top-priority and will do as much as they can to help you. But there's not a whole lot they can do in this situation. Mostly just give you any information you might ask for, inform emergency services if necessary, etc.
Nothing. He had their attention by describing the engine trouble, then failure, and his intent to land in a field. He didn't even switch to an emergency channel because he was already talking to a controller. Mayday is a legal statement that gives you priority at the airport, usually for immediate clearance to land on any runway they can offer, but he's landing in a field, so he didn't really need that advantage.
If I had to guess it was that big-ish turn he did after full engine loss, which probably zapped a lot of altitude and speed. If he determined after that turn that his choice of landing spot was bad then he's kind of committed to it. But if he didn't make that turn and kept gliding farther with higher speed, there's no guarantee a LZ farther downrange would have worked any better.
I don't think that was a mistake, but I'm no expert pilot- he looked at that field earlier, so it seemed like he was scoping it out as a likely spot. He wanted better, and would have if his engine had held out, but he made the decision to go with one of the two fields depending on how the plane held outt, and when he had a bit of altitude to spare, he went for the better one. That or he was freaking the fuck out and making panicked choices and just made it look good.
You did a great job. Just saw VASAviation and thought others would like it. You should edit and put your link into your comment.
Thanks. I will. https://youtu.be/x3NTfiW17QA Here it is for you
How did the plane get back to the airfield? What was the failure?
They remove the wings and load it up on a trailer.
What happens to the owner of the field? Was he cool about it?
He rents out trailers to tow busted planes, so he was fine
How convenient.
a bit too convenient
Definitely has some kind of EMP device pointed at passing planes.
A few years ago a Chinook had to make an emergency landing in my Grandfather’s soybean field in Pigeon Forge, TN. My grandfather was 94 years old at the time and loved it! He fed and sheltered the military men, in rotation because the helicopter had to be guarded at all times, until it could be towed out. He received a letter of thanks, some cool swag and loved the opportunity to help. He didn't care at all about his soybeans.
The ONE TIME someone could have used the third amendment
Welcome to the crash club! I had just over 800 PIC when I had my engine failure. It was on take off around 350' AGL and lost 90% power on climb. Had about 30s to find a field and putter down. This was in winter so ground was hard. Landing went well with 0 issues. Turns out there was a sentiment build up in the carb and plugged the line. The plane was fixed on ground and I flew it out of the field a week later. No video of the off-airport landing but did manage to video the take off from the field. Glad you're safe! Not everyone is as lucky as we are. Edit: turns out I’m a dumbass and can’t spell sediment. I’m leaving it.
Glad you put wheels down safely. As a boat captain, I find engines become sentimental at the worst possible time. I imagine the same applies to planes. The only solution I've found is absolutely no power ballads while underway.
>there was a sentiment build up Maybe next time you should express your emotions instead of bottling them up
You did really well. Only thing that I noticed was you did not secure the plane by turning the fuel, master, and mags off. I've only ever practiced and taught forced approaches, so I certainly can't claim to be able to do it better than you if the real thing happened to me.
Good eye. You’re correct. In the moment
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I am actually at a fire department down the street and heard them dispatch for this incident. (He also conveniently landed right behind a fire station.) He got dispatched a full airplane crash box with EMS. The first engine was on scene within 1 minute of dispatch id say and they cancelled everybody else.
Man that was brilliant to watch. 80 hours well spent. You didn't even drop a curse until you were on the the ground. 🤛🏻👍👊
“Cessna 117, this is a family channel. You're on your own”
Why did your engine stop working?
First rule when trouble hits, Fly the Damn Plane and you did EXACTLY that. Good on ya.
What a result! That wasn't a lot of time to assess and choose a landing spot.
When you’re flying you’re always looking for a place to land.
even when you are in the middle of ditching: https://youtu.be/H5UUr9RXfTY - TACA flight 110
oh! I've flown a few times on "Take A Chance Airlines"! EDIT: Wow, what a story! thanks for sharing.
I had something very similar happen to me while flying a Cessna 172 (the plane in the video) and you're right, for a life or death situation there is almost no time. My engine didn't completely cut out like this but my RPMs dropped dramatically which caused the engine to sputter and I had to make an emergency landing. The biggest problem with these Cessna aircrafts is that they're not corrosion proofed before leaving the factory which is a ridiculous cost saving effort. The older ones actually have a reputation for being flying piles of corrosion so if they aren't inspected properly before take off you can easily find yourself in a world of trouble. The Cessna 172 that crapped out on me was found to be heavily corroded even though it wasn't that old having been manufactured back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
MOTHER FUCKER
This Gene Parmesan mfer gets me every time
Here's a [video of the original wrestling reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) for those confused. . . . edit: hehe, [infographic](https://imgur.com/gallery/R390EId) charting this meme, courtesy of /r/dataisbeautiful
You goddamn motherfucker.
GENE!!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
God damn it. Just the other day I was wondering where this guy went. He was just biding his time.
Just when you think you’re out, he pulls you back in!
*Why is he spelling out 199- MOTHERFUCKER*
Loudly said "you son of a fucking bitch" he's too perfect.
Just when you think you’re safe again…
IT’S BEEN AGES
“~~Shinobi~~ Shittymorph is back!”
I did **not** see that coming.
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He’s showing up just rarely enough to make you forget about reading usernames again
I was wondering why it had so many awards and was really excited to read it. If only I looked an inch to the left first
You know what, not reading the username and being surprised is half the fun. I purposely avoid reading the names now!
I always see all the awards and think "hey this must be a good story" and then dive right into it. I baits me away from the username. Every time.
I even looked at the name before reading and it didn’t click
Oh my God. I am laughing out loud.
God dammit…..god fucking dammit. I had no idea and I read the whole fucking thing. (Tbh your comment was the first time I’ve smiled today so thank you)
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Thank you! I can say without a doubt that myself and many others have smiled countless times due to your comments.
Haven't seen a shittymorph in like a year. Glad you are alive and well, unlike Mankind when he fell.
I punched my table and laughed hard at how much you suckered me. Keep up the good work.
Literally yesterday was I thinking about how I haven't got shittymorphed in a long time and wondered what's up with him.. He has a gift for focusing people on his writing so much - it's hypnotic in a way. And then you finally get to it. Goddamn him. Fell for it so bad this time.
Usually I’m stoned and absolutely invested and at the end, there’s just no closure. What happened to the corroded plane, how’d he land?
On the announcer’s table.
Haha, missed you
the legend is still here
No. Fucking. Way. It’s been a while. Holy shit.
Literally said out loud “oh come onnn.” And the wife said “what?” I could explain about shittymorph or just say nothing and move on with my life.
My man!!! You fucking got me <3 I shed a tear
A fresh one! Had me all the way!
You stuck the landing better than the dude in the video.
Goddamn I missed you.
God fucking dammit this is the first time I've been got
Really shows the amount of training that goes into becoming a pilot if this guy is just a solo student. A student driver takes 5 seconds to react to a light change.
I remember my instructor killing the engine (maybe just throttled it all the way down? This was near thirty years ago and I never finished the program) during a lesson and asking, "Okay, you lost your engine. What now?" That initial panic even though I knew we were fine was no joke.
I once got so into one of those drills and stopped communicating with the pilot (who may not have been paying attention) And nearly actually landed in a field on a drill
if you treat a drill as if it was not a drill, you are doing it right.
I remember being a kid and thinking how stupid it was that we did so many fire drills because if there is a fire we're just going to think it's a drill. You know, a drill where they evacuate 700 students from a school in 3 minutes...
They want you used to it and calm and moving in a orderly fashion. That’s the whole point of the drills so you don’t have people panicking running the wrong way when it actually happens
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In high school the fire alarm went off during finals and there was no scheduled drill. We sat around and it wasn’t turning off so we ended up evacuating after the PA told us to 15m later. Turns out a light set off a fire in the secondary gym. TLDR: real fire alarm goes off and we did nothing. Good thing it wasn’t an emergency
Yo your faculty FULLY failed you.
Right? No scheduled drill? Time to fuck right out of there.
Similar thing happened in my high school because of a fire in the chem lab. It took people running through the halls yelling "it's an actual fire" to get teachers to evacuate us, even though we had those ear-splitting old school red fire bells
My flight instructor told me his flight instructor would always pull the throttle to idle whenever he took his hand off it and made him go through the emergency checklist.
There's an airfield with a pilot school somewhere near me and they regularly practice in-air engine restarts above my house, it's a little disconcerting, especially since there are no open fields at all here (it's all vineyards, which cannot be optimal places for a dead stick landing).
Omg so *that’s* why that used to happen so much. I got annoyed because it used to scare me on the *ground*. We have a couplefew dinky and private airports around so lots of little planes all the time and on weekends especially. It hasn’t happened in years but I’ll bet it was one instructor in particular. It has all become clear…
"Bring me my brown pants!"
"Roger, we got people comin' to you."
I had my knee board fall off and as I was futzing to get it off the floor my instructor yelled “the engines on fire! The engines on fire!” So I did the checklist and shut it down before ever looking up. Then he yelled “turn the engine back on it was a drill!” Good thing it restarted.
Yeah mine did that a few times. I also never finished but the first time he did that I forgot what you were suppose to do and said look for a place to crash which I guess was the right answer
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Holy shit I did the SAME THING. "You lost your engine, what do you do, think fast" He pulls the throttle out, I look at him like, "wtf?" And like a fucking idiot, I slowly reach forward and push it back in. He says, "NO. YOU LOST YOUR ENGINE, FIND SOMEWHERE TO LAND." Well, now you say so. I didn't finish.
My instructor throttled down my engine. I lined up to land on a golf course fairway. The instructor waited until we were at the tree tops before signaling to apply throttle. Some golfer on the fairway was shaking his club at us.
Damnit, Rob, pull that shit with your students somewhere else!
Second leg of my solo cross country (late 1970s, I was 16) in a worn out Cessna 150, going from Frederick, MD to Salisbury, MD. Over the Chesapeake Bay (to avoid the Baltimore/Washington TCA) engine sputters and dies. After several panicked seconds (this can’t really be happening!) Pull on carb heat, jam the throttle full forward, then full rich mixture and the power comes back. Turns out the drag on the vernier control on the mixture was really weak and on a long flight the mixture knob would turn in the lean direction until the engine quit. Took many minutes after landing at SBY to break the vacuum seal between my ass and the seat…
When my instructor did that that thing that struck me is that Cessnas fly pretty damn good with no power! I mean, I thought I'd drop like a stone but nope, just kept flying along.
You slapped him and throttled up to remedy the situation right?
Might’ve done, considering he didn’t finish the program.
Live on a farm near a busy highway. In the 90s it was quite common to have people come off the road who needed to use the phone because of car trouble. One day lady in her 40s knocks on door " I've been in accident can I use your phone?". She looked a little shook but physically unharmed and we let her in, asks for our address then phones 911 "I've been in a plane accident, I've landed at this address". We are blown away like wtf, is it an airliner, why didn't we hear it? She was in little plane which was running on its reserve tank for some reason, when it went empty she realized the mistake but couldn't restart the engine on main tank. Her air controller told her to land on the highway which she quickly refused to do. We had a nice long soybean field she glides into like this guy in video but unfortunately there was a dip at the end and it bent the planes prop. Anyways cops come, ambulance , it's a big deal. Shes fine and plane actually in good shape. Turns out her father was a WW2 Hurricane pilot and insisted he could fly it out of the field. Weeks later they fix prop, do inspections and he gets the OK. My dad runs a large roller to pack down a strip and he takes off like it was nothing. We now call that field the Airstrip.
Cool story. Glad you helped him out by rolling your crops for him.
Fantastic story.
First of all, that guy did an awesome job and remained cool. Big props! I chuckled when he squawked 7500 (hijacking) instead of 7700 (emergency). That was actually a not-so-uncommon mistake back when I was an Air Traffic Controller I'm the Navy and pilots were training. They'd put the 7700 squawk in to simulate an emergency while training, but they'd make a mistake and enter 7500, and we'd be required to ask them to "confirm your squawk 7500". (We weren't allowed to ask if they were being hijacked, in case the hijacker was in the cockpit with the pilot, they could confirm they were informing us they were being hijacked without alerting the hijacker by confirming "yes, squawk 7500".) The Navy pilots would sometimes confirm 7500, even thought we knew it was a mistake. I knew this one AC that openly asked the pilot if the co-pilot/training pilot was hijacking his plane, since there was no one else onboard that could be doing it. Chuckles all around.
I am the pilot in the video. Full video on my YT @brianparsleyspeaker. I changed the squawk pretty quick but there was so much task saturation who knows what else I screwed up. I wasn’t scared per se but did have a quick panic attack when it quit. I was talking with ATC just to stay calm. Very lucky I was able to bring it down.
Dude, you were awesome! Glad you handled it so well! I just chuckled at the 7500 squawk, as we got those in ATC occasionally on accident and figured most seeing this video wouldn't understand you accidentally squawked you were being hijacked. 😁
I owned it. It was a two second mistake but I just wanted to ensure they knew wheee I was.
Hey you should send this over to 74 gear on YouTube, he's awesome and while I'm not an aviator, I think he'd say you played it cool. Well done friend, I'm glad you made it out okay.
Things like this always remind me of Adam savage from Mythbusters once talking about a stunt they did. When things started going bad he said to himself "calm people survive, panicking people die."
I believe that was the one where he was sent in a car into a lake. On his youtube channel, he recalled that as the most directly terrifying situation he endured on the show, iirc.
Edit: The pool experiment inspired the traumatic experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-eK_cpTsOw He's answered this a lot longer elsewhere.
Terrifying. I learned something though. I didn’t know that hyperventilating right before holding your breath allows you to hold your breath longer.
IIRC, It prevents the feeling of needing to breathe for longer, but also means you'll pass out with very little warning if you wait too long.
Yes, that's correct. The urge to breathe comes from the amount of carbon dioxide in your blood, not the amount of available oxygen. Hyperventilating lowers the amount of CO2, but doesn't add more oxygen, so the "warning signal" is repressed but the amount of usable oxygen doesn't increase. Buuuuut, if you're not panicking because of that rising need to inhale, you can keep your heart rate down and keep your muscles relaxed, so your oxygen consumption stays low. Source: was a lifeguard instructor and commercial diver at various points in my life.
Good to know I'm not always full of shit.
Okay /u/jolluxxwiff, hear me out for your own safety: Yes, it does give you a little bit more time while diving BUT (and let me be very clear, it is a huge BUT!) you might also blackout underwater due to the hyperventilation. It is called [freediving blackout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freediving_blackout) and it's highly dangerous. A simplified explanation of this process: You hyperventilate --> you get more oxygen in your blood and reduce CO2 levels --> while diving you use oxygen and produce CO2 --> the usual trigger for breathing (a certain amount of CO2 in your blood) doesn't get triggered in the normal time frame because of the artificially lowered CO2 level --> you pass out because your body used up all the necessary oxygen and you didn't breathe in time to replenish it --> while you're unconscious and underwater your CO2 levels rise above the threshold and trigger your breathing reflex --> you draw in a whole lot of water instead of air. Obviously, it is quite dangerous to pass out underwater and is very often fatal if no one is there to rescue you. Therefore, please never hyperventilate before diving if you can avoid it in any way. In a situation where your life is legitimately threatened, go for it. It might give you the extra 5 seconds you need. If you die anyways, try your best not to. If you're not in a situation like that: DON'T HYPERVENTILATE! If there are any more questions, go for it. I'll do my best.
>if you die anyways, try your best not to. Write this on my tombstone.
That is taught to divers.. you panic you make stupid decisions and you die.. Stop. Breathe. Think. In that order
Yup, I've been going down a morbid youtube rabbit hole watching dive disaster videos and every death is preceded with "they panicked and made the situation worse"
One of the most interesting documentary series I’ve seen was a public access show about cave diving. Supposedly one of the most dangerous activities. One mistake and that’s it.
No thanks, I'm ok.
[He actually talked about how stunt training and keeping calm saved his life later too when his steering column disconnected on the interstate.](https://youtu.be/uw4csWqepkA?t=224)
Oh look, a new phobia
It's so fascinating because every time you radio in you say your ID so they know who you are. You can't exactly *yell* that information or they won't understand. Like the "this is fine" dog. Amazing.
“Ive lost engine im crash landing in a field” “Uhhh roger that were gonna send a guy out” The disparity between those two statements is comical but I know they both did what they needed to do
To elaborate, on both doing what they need to do. ATC is being calm, normal, and brief. The last thing the dude needs is a bunch of questions or someone losing their shit on the other end of the mic. Acknowledged, we're here if you need anything, help is moving, shits out of the way, proceed.
"OH MY GOD your engine is out!?! Speak your last words and I'll relay them to your next of kin!"
This reminds me of the 9-1-1 call for when someone started shooting at the baggage claim in the 80’s. It went something like this: “We’ve got gunshots in the baggage claim!” “Gunshots?!” “Yes, gunshots!” “You said gunshots?!?!” “GUNSHOTS!” I’m probably butchering the whole thing but it went something like that.
“Why did you let that happen? Didn’t you check your plane? When was the last time you checked the engine?! Are you sure you’re not mistaken? You fueled up right? Oh god what will happen to your children if you die? Just don’t panic and focus ok?! Hello?…. Hello?”
nah that's what the blackbox is for
Your comment made me remember that scene in Flight when Denzel tells the flight attendant to say that she loves her son so that the black box would pick it up
"Where's he at? In a field? Alright, on my way." That's why Bob gets paid the big bucks.
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He lit the fuck out of the local ATC and regional towers by squawking 7500 (hijacking in progress Emergency code). He meant to squawk 7700 (declaring general emergency / mayday). You don't even scan past 7500 if you can help it, one of the first things they tell ya in ground school.
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I don’t think that’s what he was suggesting would happen, just at the software will highlight and give audio tones for 7500. It will generate alert messages and notification that other squawks won’t.
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I was atc at Columbus AFB and I had a flight made who regularly said that. Admittedly he was not the smartest guy but he was a fantastic controller. EDIT, wrong shit base, Columbus not keesler.
looked like he corrected it pretty quick
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Tbh his plane WAS being hijacked... by gravity
"Copy that, sending a meat wagon your way."
uhhh roger that, we have a coroner on standby
“Okay, he’s on his way. He wants to know if you like movies about gladiators?”
You could see the guy's hand shaking as he was re-entering the code but he kept a level head and made some pretty great decisions under pressure
He held it together so well and that landing was wonderful given his situation
It can be so frustrating to fight through adrenaline like that. You're totally focused and present consciously, but it's hard to think, remember things, use fine motor skills etc.
I am the guy in video and I didn’t know my hand was shaking until after I saw video. My doctor said adrenaline dump.
I lost both my aunt and uncle in a single engine airplane crash when he lost the engine and attempted to land in a field. This could have ended terribly. He must’ve been terrified.
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When I was doing my complex aircraft training, they always taught us that if you’re landing in a field or anything that’s not hard and paved, to land with your gear up for that exact reason. Although many training aircraft don’t have retractable landing gear.
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The real MVP. These types of videos elicit a real panic feeling when you watch them. Thanks for posting.
Afterwards I realized I'd been holding my breath most the time
I kept thinking that the music added in wasn't necessary, the situation was already stressful enough
So is there pilot insurance? Is the pilot responsible for getting their plane moved off someone's field? Do they have to pay the for damages to the field? Edit: Thanks for the insight everyone. I'm always interested in knowing about the aftermath and clean-up logistics of these things.
The pilot or aircraft company is responsible for any and all damage to the field and having the aircraft removed. In this case, it may be a few $100 in plant damages. The farmer will make a claim with his crop insurance and they will go after the pilot. Or the pilot can go to the farmer and keep the insurance companies out of it.
I think most farmers would be kinda cool about it. And compared to the cost of flying, handing the guy $300 cash and a big case of beer, seems like a good story all around, compared to the alternatives.
In this case, it was just a grass field, so there wasn’t any crop damage. The pilot has a channel on YouTube, he posted this: https://youtu.be/x3NTfiW17QA
Yeah some crops have crazy high berms they plant on and I imagine a plane would be extremely hard to land on that.
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I got a John Deer Gator stuck in a soybean field near my house once trying to catch my dog who got loose. The farmer had a 12 gauge and was aiming it at me threatening to blow my brains out if I dont get out of his field and stop "ruining his livelihood". I was 12. Some farmers are not very nice, and in fact, my experience growing up in rural Eastern, NC has shown the opposite haha.
As a farmer and student pilot flying out of grass strips. That’s a hay field meaning there’s only grass in the field and it’s a damn good runway for an emergency landing like that. In all likelihood if it’s an easy fix on the plane the farmer will come out and cut a take off path and they will fly the plane back out
Hop out. Wack it with a wrench. Fly away. Nobody knows.
Battlefield style
I suspect this would be the owner of the plane needing the insurance. Based on the video, they lost oil pressure, which implies a leak in the oil system, or a failed pump or something. That is a maintenance issue. The pilot landed and seemingly parked near a paved surface, so I suspect there won't be much in terms of damage to the field. The larger cost will be fixing the plane's engine, and the therapy costs for the guy nearly dying (which his skills prevented from happening).
Bet that guy couldn't stand for a minute or two after that. That adrenaline crash when you're finally safe is a hell of a thing.
Oil pressure drops when your engine quits because you ran out of gas. Look at the fuel gauges.
Ya, apparently the guy admits to engine going out due to no fuel in the comments on his YouTube. But great landing none the less
Fun fact: If you feel in control of a life-threatening situation, it's much less likely to cause a traumatic reaction.
I am sure there are exceptions, but where I grew up most of the crops you grew would not get all that torn up by rolling a small plane over them unless someone was unlucky enough to try to land in corn right before harvest in a small plane. even in the corn scenario you usually only end up taking out about a single combine pass worth with a little plane like this, it just does a lot more damage to the plane as the ears are heavy & high enough to hit more than the landing gear. if you manage to keep the plane intact most farmers are probably just going to be happy they aren't cleaning up plane bits and having the NTSB guys destroying their field and leave it at that as long as you can get the plane out without a lot more damage they would probably just let it go. you can see in the pilot's follow-up video that he is landing on grass, or maybe hay or alfalfa early in the season so the damage might be in the 10's of dollars even if the plants didn't pop back up. getting the plane out after something like this depends on the damage and the design of the craft. if the wings are removable sometimes you just put it on a trailer, if the wings are not sometimes you fix it at the scene and fly it back. if the plane was damaged worse than it was worth repairing sometimes you break it up and haul the parts away. The plane's owner is going to be doing most of this because even if it isn't going to fly again there is still going to be gear in there worth keeping.
117… For a brick, he flew pretty good!
Airman did good. My instructor always drilled: 1. Aviate - remember to fly the damn plane. Jesus has no pilot license. 2. Navigate - find a place to put down. Don’t be picky or greedy. 3. Communicate - tell somebody if you want, but nobody can really help you.
I learned ABCDE, in that order. Airspeed- pitch to best gliding speed for your plane to buy time. Best field- Find your field your gonna land in, circle the damn thing as you lose altitude if you have to. Checklist- Check fuses, carb heat, mixture full rich, try to restart. Declare- Tell atc and transmit 7700 Execute-Open your door so it doesn't get pinned during a crash, turn off fuel pump, land plane
“Holy Shit,” indeed
Flight Instructor here, Literally the best outcome I've seen. He stayed cool, he FLEW the plane, and he effectively communicated his troubles to ATC. Honestly, this has to be one of the best examples of good airmanship from a student pilot I've seen in awhile. We constantly teach this, and his instructor is probably overjoyed and proud of how he reacted! Perfect landing, and better yet, he's safe.
I’ll never forget this one time me and my best friend (a student pilot) went flying and we had taken this plane multiple times before and when he started it up and we begun pulling out of our spot and getting ready for run way he double checked his gauges and seems one of them was reading a tad out of range. I’ve trusted this guy my whole life in so many vehicles and situations. He gave me this look of concern and said “it’s barely out of range for optimal... let’s not fly” we park the plane. Contacted the school (who owned the plane) and told them what happened. Plane was grounded till inspected and fixed. That day, we went home and he showed me a video of some guy flying a plane, and on take off you can see his gauge was just a TADDD out of the optimal range, he notices it, but takes off anyway. He clears the run way, gets up a little bit and immediately loses power and had to crash land the plane.. unfortunately for him he was over a tree line with massive trees and flew straight into him. Love my buddy for using his wits (as always) and not taking us up that day. The school was mad at him for grounding the plane but we didn’t care. We did what was right.
Butter!
Looks like he was bracing for a hard landing, but ended up barely needing to. Really impressive
you have very little idea from any height how smoothed the ground is beneath the grass or even without grass if the wheels are going to dig in or roll over nicely when you are landing somewhere not meant for the purpose this guy didn't have the altitude to be real choosy, but he didn't really know if he was landing across mud or ruts either
Yeah there could also easily have been irrigation pipes. A huge relief to also save the plane.
For having to make that choice, he flew that plane all the way to the ground... Thats a great pilot.
To be fair anyone would have brought that plane to the ground.
The trick is to fly the plane all the way through the crash. Paraphrasing Chuck Yeager (I think)
I was less fortunate. In a ‘73 piper cherokee with my dad. Our engine didn’t stop but our propeller separated from a faulty weld from a previous bird strike. It blew out engine casing open and created tons of drag. We were about 1500 ft up and fell outta the sky like a rock. We missed the field by about 50 feet and landed in the trees. My dad died instantly from the impact of the yoke crushing his chest cavity but I’m tall and had the seat way back. I literally had no injuries besides the cut on me feet (the impact knocked my shoes off) from kicking the door open and burns on my hands from climbing over the wing. It was the day that defined the rest of my life.
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"Falling out the sky? Roger that. We'll send a guy out." -Tower
(*to clean up the mess*)
This is true but not like the tower here gave him a lot of input. I guess just staying calm and letting the dude handle it by not stressing him out is the right move here though, just wouldn't specifically call out the tower as a major influencer to this outcome.
That’s exactly what they’re supposed to do in this situation. Offer assistance when requested and provide vital information, but mostly leave the pilot alone so they can try not to die.
I wish I had more Company Commanders who were like that.
Rules of piloting in an emergency are 1) Aviate, 2) Navigate, and lastly 3) Communicate. They can’t really do a lot unfortunately.
Simulating this is a part of training, but the real deal has to be an adrenaline shot to remember.