How to Use a Tree

[rjtjrt]

//youtu.be/WdO7Ag_j-9E

[megan]

Not playing, just a black box with start arrow in centre.

[rjtjrt]

Thanks for the heads up.
Odd, it plays for me. Some sort of geographic thing I guess.
Anyway here is the URL

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WdO7Ag_j-9E&ebc=ANyPxKrfc7IobbllpTGpR16L6tvltfcvQna32j1CCRgSBDQ7320rXgN6 tEScYJxINA2kCMv9dHsH9XguqkB6waxK4zxAJGYVQw&time_continue=2

[DeeCee]

How on earth did he/she manage that? It looks like the aircraft was stalling before it hit the tree. For once all the lucky breaks lined up.

[Steve6443]

How on earth did he/she manage that? It looks like the aircraft was stalling before it hit the tree. For once all the lucky breaks lined up.

My best guess: Aiming for a field beyond the car park, saw s/he was going to miss, pulled on the stick to extend the glide, plane stalled / began to spin to the left. Everything else was pure luck.

However we do know of other SkyGods purposefully executing the manoeuvre, who have more or less successfully stalled a light aircraft into a tree - wasn't one instance near Aberdeen?

correction: looking at the location where s/he landed (in the car park of Johnson Technologies, Plainville), s/he could have put the plane back down on the remaining runway at Robertson Airport. Very strange indeed

[funfly]

I have personal experience of exactly this happening in the UK when a few years ago an aircraft that I knew well took off and clipped a tree which took all the speed off, turned it through 180 degrees and flopping it down facing the direction it came from letting the two occupants get out unscathed.

[Richard Taylor]

I reckon he/she just spotted a suitable parking spot and wanted to get in before anyone else. :}

[Farrell]

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/41237592/plane-crash-pilot-walks-away-after-aircraft-hits-tree

[Curlytips]

Just goes to show why the Cessna 172 has the best safety record :ok:

[Oscar Charlie 192]

A perfect tree point landing!