Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
Sad to see. It seems to me that the pilot was caught out by the classic “apparent airspeed” phenomena. Flying downwind at very low level gives a false visual impression of aircraft IAS if you’re only looking outside, rather than monitoring the ASI.
No idea about the Italian but for the Ontario Ministery’s CL-415 it is SOP to dump your load downwind (So it will cover more ground)
This said, I totally agree with Blancolirio’s take on YouTube posted by avionimc above) This was a totally unnecessary high risk manœuvre, trees can grow again and houses be rebuilt.
I would add that the Croatian CL-415’s unit should take note of that particular crash as they seems pretty fervent of high risks manœuvres with Zero exit doors in case of a problem.