CL-215 down in Greece
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Super Scooper down while firefighting on Evia.
Sadly, A Greek firefighting plane crashed while performing a mission on the island of Evia, state-run ERT reported Tuesday. The broadcaster showed images of the plane crashing into a ravine in the Karystos area of the island after dropping water on a wildfire.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1683813650132357122
https://twitter.com/i/status/1683813650132357122
CL-215 down in Greece
Sadly another firefighting accident, whole sequence captured on video:
Last edited by Pilot DAR; 25th Jul 2023 at 14:19. Reason: Corrected title
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Part hidden by the TV logo but looks like something clipped off right wing? Something flashes as though tumbling away?
Edit: right hand float breaks away, right wing leading edge possibly damaged as well... Such a sad loss of life.
Twitter link from other thread shows more clearly.
Edit: right hand float breaks away, right wing leading edge possibly damaged as well... Such a sad loss of life.
Twitter link from other thread shows more clearly.
In Nikiana right now. Zero issues here.
Was admiring a double flypast of a Canadair CL-215 last evening
Spoke to a Greek Mil C130 driver an hour ago.
Tells me it was the selfsame aircraft.
Bugger !!!
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Was admiring a double flypast of a Canadair CL-215 last evening
Spoke to a Greek Mil C130 driver an hour ago.
Tells me it was the selfsame aircraft.
Bugger !!!
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If it jams the aileron full up as suggested below, then yes.
Hard to see, could be the case. Left aileron is clearly full up, I cannot discern any rudder.
Hard to see, could be the case. Left aileron is clearly full up, I cannot discern any rudder.
Last edited by andrasz; 25th Jul 2023 at 16:14.
Drop load, right turn, and then we see it go down.
(Wonder if an engine quit on them, or rolled back, during the turn?)
Tough to assess from that view. Any idea of the wind direction?
(Wonder if an engine quit on them, or rolled back, during the turn?)
Tough to assess from that view. Any idea of the wind direction?
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I would have thought it flyable afther that clip. It seems to me that the clip knocked it into a steeper bank and scubbed some air speed off, into a attitude that was unrecoverable at that altitude.
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I had to run it a couple more times to see what you referred to. Nice catch.
Clipped that tree with the right wing, tore off the right pontoon (possibly jammed/bent the right aileron deflected upward), and put the plane into a hard skid - all at low airspeed. Couldn't roll left, and hard left rudder would have slipped the plane lower. He ran out of options pretty fast. RIP
Right wingtip float departed ,and appears to have full aileron up,possibly jammed,causing the overbank.....?