Bushmaster crash

[cringe]

One of the two Bushmasters (Ford Tri-Motor replicas), N750RW, crashed yesterday onto a road immediately after takeoff from Fullerton Airport. The plane was on a post-maintenance test flight and the two crew on board were seriously injured. Two women were slightly hurt when the wing struck their car. Story and pics at:

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3761017/detail.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-plane26sep26,1,7869105.story?coll=la-editions-orange

[cringe]

The crash was caught on video:

http://www.turnto10.com/news/3763538/detail.html

[Anti-ice]

It appears to be an airshow, if it was post-maintenance , then that seems to be an addition.

Both pilots in intensive care , sadly :( Hope they both make a full recovery.Very sad.

It seemed to be doing a very hard left wing-over, remined me unfortunately of that awful B52 crash pre-airshow where the pilot pushed things too hard.

Whether this was intentional or not, we've yet to find out, but its sad we have 2 guys in a very bad way, and a formidable aircraft in ruin . :ugh:

[yazman]

IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 750RW
Make/Model: BU20 Description: BUSHMASTER 2000
Date: 09/25/2004 Time: 2018

Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Serious Mid Air: N
Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed

LOCATION
City: FULLERTON State: CA Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT DEPARTED RUNWAY 24 WEST OF TAXIWAY CHARLIE, PULLED UP TO CLIMB TO AVOID RAMP PERSONNEL, AND CRASHED INTO A VEHICLE SOUTH OF TOWER ONTO AVENUE, ACFT WAS DESTROYED, FULLERTON, CA

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 2 Fat: 0 Ser: 2 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:

WEATHER: VFR
Also appears to have come very close to hitting a hangar/building.
Definitely not intentional.

[Josh10524]

I've been inside that particular aircraft on several occasions. Very very sad news. I hope the crew makes it o.k.

[Anti-ice]

Jeez, that video is hard to watch ,as we are witnessing closehand 2 brave men's toughest hour. :ugh:

If they were just missing ramp personnel , then why such a hard bank to the left, or is it a stall characteristic?

The saddest part for me is the soundtrack 'beautiful day' by U2 playing in the background as this disaster unfolds..... hope they are ok :ugh:

[Volume]

My best wishes to the injured, hope they will all recover :(

The video-link does not work for me, but I´ve watched it on TV yesterday evening. It´s always scary to see what will happen next, and not to be able to do anything about it. :ugh:

The pictures are really interesting, I think I will use them for one of my next lessons. You can clearly see the rudder deflected into the turn, opposite aileron and elevator pulled back. Looks quite like the aerodynamics book´s best way to spin an aircraft.
I hope we will know the whole story soon, looks like some mechanical malfunction to me, maybe stuck left rudder ?

[Onan the Clumsy]

TurnTo10: "The plane just missed the airport's watch tower" :rolleyes:

Out of interest, where does it say it was "post-maintenance"?

[cringe]

Onan,

where does it say it was "post-maintenance"? The LA Times article from the first post quotes the airport manager, and some others quote police as saying that.

The same piece also mentions someone with a ticket for a ride in the Bushmaster, but the flights were allegedly cancelled just before the accident. On the pic at the link below the plane is flying over what (to me) looks like a ticket stall offering tri-motor rides:

http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2004/09/26/sections/local/local/article_254769.php