Pilot threatening to crash plane into Mississippi Walmart
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He will probably be shot down by a couple of F-15s real soon..:ooh:
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Originally Posted by TowerDog
(Post 11290216)
He will probably be shot down by a couple of F-15s real soon..:ooh:
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Yup, it's either crashed or landed somewhere north of New Albany or FR24 et al have taken it "off air"...
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Originally Posted by treadigraph
(Post 11290237)
Yup, it's either crashed or landed somewhere north of New Albany or FR24 et al have taken it "off air"...
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The flight disappeared from FR24 when the views hit 256K. I'm hoping FR24 took it off air to save their service from overload.
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Originally Posted by Carbon Bootprint
(Post 11290245)
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Bizarre situation... allegedly, the individual who stole the King Air was not a pilot but worked on the ramp at the Tupelo Airport. He posted on Facebook while in the air... a goodbye to his parents and sister. If not a pilot, I am impressed that he was able to start a turboprop, configure for takeoff, and fly and maneuver for many hours and then make an apparent dead stick landing in a field that was survivable.
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Originally Posted by Lake1952
(Post 11290283)
Bizarre situation... allegedly, the individual who stole the King Air was not a pilot but worked on the ramp at the Tupelo Airport. He posted on Facebook while in the air... a goodbye to his parents and sister. If not a pilot, I am impressed that he was able to start a turboprop, configure for takeoff, and fly and maneuver for many hours and then make an apparent dead stick landing in a field that was survivable.
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Reported as a student pilot.
Aircraft had flown one hour before this flight. So did he steal it after a possible dual session, why so easy to take. |
I'm genuinely flabbergasted how someone could start up a twin turboprop and fly it if no experience ..
In fact, my gast has never been so flabbered... Just glad no one got hurt. In the EU (and UK) a pair of Typhoons would be supersonic and on them within 300 seconds.... or less with wings fully loaded. |
So wrong on so many counts...
Walmart? Is that the best target he could think of?
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Originally Posted by fokker1000
(Post 11290341)
I'm genuinely flabbergasted how someone could start up a twin turboprop and fly it if no experience ..
In fact, my gast has never been so flabbered... |
Pretty complex...condition levers, ignition switches, fuel flow...not to mention just getting the radios to work...audio panel, avionics master switches etc. Not generally an easy transition even if he was a licensed pilot with C172 time.
Edit: Never mind the radios... apparently he called 911 on a cell phone. But apparently the transponder was squawking 1200 so that involves at least an avionics master, right? |
I’ve logged 3000 hours on Kingairs - PT 6 is a relatively easy engine to start and Beechcraft handling requires no special technique. There are numerous videos and sim programs that could be studied so this event isn’t beyond a motivated individual.
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Originally Posted by fokker1000
(Post 11290341)
In the EU (and UK) a pair of Typhoons would be supersonic and on them within 300 seconds.... or less with wings fully loaded.
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Yeah, start the PT-6, but cook the engine while you do it?
I seem to remember the max EGT 1080 degrees for 2 seconds on start, or was it less? :ooh: I still have an occasional dream about not paying attention and over-temping a turbine engine. |
Originally Posted by fokker1000
(Post 11290341)
I'm genuinely flabbergasted how someone could start up a twin turboprop and fly it if no experience ..
In fact, my gast has never been so flabbered... Just glad no one got hurt. In the EU (and UK) a pair of Typhoons would be supersonic and on them within 300 seconds.... or less with wings fully loaded. . |
Originally Posted by TowerDog
(Post 11290390)
Yeah, start the PT-6, but cook the engine while you do it?
I seem to remember the max EGT 1080 degrees for 2 seconds on start, or was it less? :ooh: I still have an occasional dream about not paying attention and over-temping a turbine engine. |
No mystery. Guy had student ticket but not current however flew on occasion with local pilots/CFIs to include on this aircraft. High time local pilot talked him down into field. Young man has some issues to deal with and this episode caught all who knew him way off guard. Glad it worked out in the end. Don't think it was too outside his skill set to get it started and take off.
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My 18 yr old starts engines on various jets daily on his flight sim, to include mine. The sim ensures you do it correctly or FADEC aborts the start, just like the real aircraft. Perhaps this young man had opportunity to learn to start the PT6 the same way.
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Originally Posted by Bksmithca
(Post 11290411)
I understand where you coming from as a pilot but your talking about a individual stealing an airplane and threatening to level a Walmart. I'm guessing the last thing he was worried about was overheating the engines
Cooking a hot section was the least of his worries. My comment was rather that any monkey could get an engine started but it may be useless in the near future. |
I'm curious as to how they are going to recover this aircraft from the field... my guess is they are not going to fly it out!
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Hard to tell if it was a old 90 or 100. Didn’t the old 90’s have glow plugs
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It's a 1987 C90A...
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Originally Posted by TowerDog
(Post 11290390)
Yeah, start the PT-6, but cook the engine while you do it?
I seem to remember the max EGT 1080 degrees for 2 seconds on start, or was it less? :ooh: Thinking about that: are there any non-EFIS transport airplanes that use Fahrenheit for ITT? Do US based planes use Fahrenheit for oil temperature? |
Originally Posted by Antsl
(Post 11290478)
I'm curious as to how they are going to recover this aircraft from the field...!
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Originally Posted by fokker1000
(Post 11290341)
In the EU (and UK) a pair of Typhoons would be supersonic and on them within 300 seconds.... or less with wings fully loaded.
They wouldn’t even be in the air after 300 seconds. |
While I agree that 300 sec is probably not realistic in this scenario, there is a QRA readiness state of 5 min.
During times of tension, this state may be applied and in that case the scrambled Quick Reaction Alert aircraft must be in the air within 300 secs. |
Originally Posted by Lake1952
(Post 11290364)
Not generally an easy transition even if he was a licensed pilot with C172 time.
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Drone Video of Crash Site
From this video, the plane had its gear down and was doing apparently quite well until it hit the ditch. The landing gear appears to have snapped off at the ditch. This is a 1987 build... I strongly suspect it's a total loss.
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