Light Plane Crash in NZ

[Mail-man]

Anyone have any info?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/01/10/18/04/light-plane-filmed-crashing-on-nz-beach?mch=mobilenh&mchpost=pos2

[PLovett]

No information other than what I saw on the news.

I couldn't believe just how unbelievably stupid this was. To have successfully saved the situation once he then goes and throws it all away by not only attempting something incredibly dangerous he then compounds it by trying to continue the takeoff when it was already going fully pear shaped.

[TowerDog]

another thread already on this..

[Desert Flower]

Should have waited until the tide went out.....

DF.

[VH-XXX]

Should have put it on the back of a truck or a trailer! (If Jack Ranga was here and wasn't banned from posting he would add "to the local tip."

[j3pipercub]

It does look like he was running out of beach in the second angle. Not sure why you would need 2 pob either.

[das Uber Soldat]

Screw the beach, he ran out of I.Q years ago.

[TBM-Legend]

Life's a beach and then you marry one!

[Desert Flower]

Screw the beach, he ran out of I.Q years ago.

I think CASA should be inviting him for tea & bikkies!

DF.

[TWT]

Unless the West Island is now part of NZ,I don't think CASA will be interested

[Desert Flower]

Unless the West Island is now part of NZ,I don't think CASA will be interested

Well what is the NZ equivalent of CASA then - or don't they have such an organisation over there?

DF.

[27/09]

I heard it was a Jabiru. No wonder it had an engine failure. Isn't there one in every paddock in Oz?

[TWT]

DF,in NZ it's the CAA,Civil Aviation Authority

[VH-XXX]

It was a Jabiru as you can clearly see from the footage. The issue was with a fuel valve but not fuel exhaustion that caused them to land in the first place.

Quite a few issues against a successful takeoff:

Beach sloping to the left
Torque steer to the left
Incoming tide
Tree debris to the right of path
Runway possibly not long enough
2 POB
Potentially soft sand

Reduce that list back to about 2 and he might have had a chance.

[PLovett]

Reduce that list back to about 2 and he might have had a chance.

2 was about the IQ level in attempting a take off.

[Capt Fathom]

Taking off from a beach is not rocket science!

Well.... It never used to be!

[TOUCH-AND-GO]

Taking off from a beach is not rocket science!

It may not be rocket science Capt Fathom, but it's people lacking a lot of common sense.!

[Desert Flower]

Taking off from a beach is not rocket science!

It was done quite successfully in an Aerocommander on an Adelaide beach many years ago!

DF.

[Aussie Bob]

You blokes crack me up. Nothing like a prune expert when it comes to commenting on another pilots misfortune.

The more thinking amongst us may well say, "but for lady luck, there went I".

[Kharon]

OB "The more thinking amongst us may well say, "but for lady luck, there went I".

Or more like "but for lady luck, there weren't I". (Thumb and big smile).