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Interesting video. There are some other skid marks visible on the runway, no doubt from others who made bad decisions, not to mention a high probability of the other type of skid mark that can't be seen.
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Ouch. Yup a go-around would have been a good idea. Pushing down to make the threshold would have definitely added a fair bit to his speed, contributing significantly to the float IGE and subsequent over-run. Wonder what his speed/energy control was like prior to the push... looked a reasonably flat approach to me, with not much action/anticipation of the speed increase likely due the push.
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Shocking decision making 
how on earth would anyone even just with basic twin experience think they could stop in that sort of distance? Surely in anything but the lightest of aircraft and the longest of runways, if the wheels aren't down and you're more than half way down the strip you'd automatically go round
Granted the approach is not easy and a typical example of the sloping terrain towards the runway falsely encouraging too steep an approach path, but how it couldn't have been clear to the PIC that he'd be ending up too fast with way too much energy for a safe landing is beyond me
Horrible site BTW that vimeo cr@p, incredibly slow to load, a performance gobbler even with the HD off, and still only producing a jumpy jittery just plain bad display.. much better here: YouTube - [REAL] Piper Seneca V St. Barthelemy crash!
how on earth would anyone even just with basic twin experience think they could stop in that sort of distance? Surely in anything but the lightest of aircraft and the longest of runways, if the wheels aren't down and you're more than half way down the strip you'd automatically go roundGranted the approach is not easy and a typical example of the sloping terrain towards the runway falsely encouraging too steep an approach path, but how it couldn't have been clear to the PIC that he'd be ending up too fast with way too much energy for a safe landing is beyond me
Horrible site BTW that vimeo cr@p, incredibly slow to load, a performance gobbler even with the HD off, and still only producing a jumpy jittery just plain bad display.. much better here: YouTube - [REAL] Piper Seneca V St. Barthelemy crash!
Horrible site BTW that vimeo cr@p, incredibly slow to load, a performance gobbler even with the HD off, and still only producing a jumpy jittery just plain bad display..
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Sue, you might have been just lucky, with a dual processor and 2GB of RAM plus a fast ADSL2+ connection I'm usually not short on performance, and from my former life as an IT 
I am pretty convinced that site's lacking in more than a few ways.. 
I am pretty convinced that site's lacking in more than a few ways..
, shame it was the ones at the wrong end 
This video looks a tad fake to me. The shaking of the camera looks a bit forced, the guy on the surf ski never misses a beat despite a rather large crash fairly close to him, no cars stop etc.
reminiscent of YouTube - Airplane loses wing!! or YouTube - Dumbo jet " Elephant landing"
Of course I could be completely wrong too
reminiscent of YouTube - Airplane loses wing!! or YouTube - Dumbo jet " Elephant landing"
Of course I could be completely wrong too
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Hmmm yeh, but the Twot can't do everything......... YouTube - Twim Otter Crash
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Well the Twotter may not be able to do everything but it can do that without crashing.
Just goes to show - design an idiot proof aeroplane someone just finds a bigger idiot to put in it.
Just goes to show - design an idiot proof aeroplane someone just finds a bigger idiot to put in it.