Biplane prang at Shellharbour

[AnotherFSO]

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/vintage-biplane-lands-upside-down-at-nsw-airport-20240309-p5fb43.html

"A small vintage biplane crashed at a NSW airport, landing upside down on the runway on Saturday.The pilot and passenger, a man and a woman in their 50s, escaped without significant injuries after the plane crash-landed at Shellharbour Airport.

Firefighters were called to the airport in the state’s Illawarra region after 70 litres of plane fuel had spilled onto the runway, Nine News reported.

The passenger was later taken to Shellharbour Hospital in a stable condition."


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[blind pew]

Love the traffic cones around the engine…elf and safety gone mad.

[Capn Bloggs]

Thinks to self...be very careful undoing straps.

[KRviator]

'ows he managed that on the runway in a taildragger?:confused:

[Global Aviator]

Sheesh, a little bit off centre line!

[Auxtank]

Took off as "eight eight zero"
Landed as "zero eight eight".

[junior.VH-LFA]

Passenger has a few broken teeth. Ouch!

[Pinky the pilot]

And at least 5 Blokes standing (or sitting, possibly, in one instance) around, along with the Truck, doing precisely nothing!:confused:

One, on the far left, appears to be taking a photograph. Either of the A/C involved in the incident or the A/C from which the photo was taken.

[Capt Fathom]

And at least 5 Blokes standing (or sitting, possibly, in one instance) around, along with the Truck, doing precisely nothing!:confused:



It fills in the afternoon!

[Traffic_Is_Er_Was]

..... landing upside down on the runway on Saturday.
Had the AH toppled?

[Expatrick]

So that's what the upper wing is for!

[Mogwi]

Hell of a ground loop!😊

Mog

[runway16]

Just bought if I read the CASA ownership details correctly.

[MechEngr]

"landing upside down on the runway"

I think I see the problem. Sometimes bucking convention has its upside down side.

[Ascend Charlie]

Must have come from the Northern Hemisphere and didn't reset the AI.

[Squawk7700]

And at least 5 Blokes standing (or sitting, possibly, in one instance) around, along with the Truck, doing precisely nothing!:confused:

One, on the far left, appears to be taking a photograph. Either of the A/C involved in the incident or the A/C from which the photo was taken.

They are hamstrung until the ATSB advise that they can remove the wreckage.

[DogTailRed2]

Won't be the first Stearman to go end over end due to a stuck brake.

[MickG0105]

And at least 5 Blokes standing (or sitting, possibly, in one instance) around, along with the Truck, doing precisely nothing!:confused:
...
Getting in a bit of practice for upcoming PIA.

[EXDAC]

Won't be the first Stearman to go end over end due to a stuck brake.

Sure, but more likely caused by an inexperienced pilot doing a hot wheel landing and trying to slow down with intentional braking.

Someone I knew put a Stearman on its back doing just that before I had a chance to fly it. Of course the pilot will blame a stuck brake in an attempt to save face. If the brakes were stuck on that should have been obvious at takeoff and they don't normally become stuck on in flight.

[megan]

There is a mod available to avoid embarrasment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ApSDpnA2k0

[Kimba]

Maybe when it’s rebuilt it’ll get a decent paint scheme.

[VH_WTF]

There is a mod available to avoid embarrasment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ApSDpnA2k0

Makes taxiing a taildragger that little bit easier

[TBM-Legend]

[QUOTE=Kimba;11612507]Maybe when it’s rebuilt it’ll get a decent paint scheme.[/QUOTE

It’s in an authentic WW2 US Navy scheme as a recall aircraft. Recall aircraft were painted in hi-vis schemes that went out into various training areas to signal a return to base due wx or the like/ no radio fitted to Stearmans then

[lucille]

Love the traffic cones around the engine…elf and safety gone mad.


And the 5 guys standing around are busy trying to figure out how and where to place the wheel chicks.

[324906]

Wheels up landing?

[sandringham1]

Won't be the first Stearman to go end over end due to a stuck brake.

Or a nervous passenger bracing their feet on the brake pedals, its been done.

[treadigraph]

Or a nervous passenger bracing their feet on the brake pedals, its been done.
Yup, at Washington National a few years ago. Think it was a journalist being given a ride, stuck his feet on the pedals to push and get a better view as they landed!

[Cloudee]

Yup, at Washington National a few years ago. Think it was a journalist being given a ride, stuck his feet on the pedals to push and get a better view as they landed!

If you’re talking of N27WE, Jun 2010, it was pilot error, not the passenger.

https://www.1001crash.com/aviation-video-Stearman-lg-2-stearman-nose-over-on-landing-aircraft.html

https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/76238/pdf

“According to the pilot, as he entered the flare to land at an airspeed of about 70 miles per hour, he planned to keep the airplane’s tail in the air and roll farther down the runway to allow more room for the following airplanes in his formation. He stated that, when the wheels touched the runway, he inadvertently applied the wheel brakes via the rudder pedals, which was evident by the skid marks found on the runway. (Pressing forward on the tops of the rudder pedals activates the main wheel brakes.) The pilot’s use of the brakes while touching down at high speed in this type of airplane, which has a high center of gravity and a tail wheel, caused it to flip over onto the top wing and the vertical stabilizer and rudder. Although the pilot had 875 total flight hours, including 190 hours in Stearman airplanes, he stated that he had seldom used the brakes in over 600 landings in the accident airplane. Therefore, the pilot was not familiar with the feel and effectiveness of the airplane’s wheel brakes”

[treadigraph]

Maybe when it’s rebuilt it’ll get a decent paint scheme.
Apparently a genuine scheme - USN "recall aircraft" launched to recall non radio students back to base in the 1940s. It says here... I rather like it, makes a change from blue fuselage and yellow wings...

[megan]

I'd say the fella/gal was just replicating this misadventure, flipped over in a windstorm upon landing at MAS Bunker Hill, Indiana.


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[treadigraph]

If you’re talking of N27WE, Jun 2010, it was pilot error, not the passenger.

That's the one, not the story I recall being bandied around at the time! My apologies to the passenger!

Strangely, ASN also lists another Stearman as having overturned at Washington National that day as a result of a ground loop.

[ghyde]

Missed checklist item "Wheels Down"