Crash incident at Northam YNTM
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Crash incident at Northam YNTM
Plane crashes into hangars in Northam - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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| Perth Now
pictures included in this article. Death to another Mooney
Rodger and the boys at Northam Air services will be changing their daks today.
pictures included in this article. Death to another Mooney
Rodger and the boys at Northam Air services will be changing their daks today.
short flights long nights
I can't work out how it ended up where it did....but glad no one was hurt.
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Maybe after peeling one wing off it is easier to spin around?
Impressive effort indeed.
Expensive educational moment but luckily not injury or death.
Hope she gets back on the horse again soon and does not get hounded out of town.
Impressive effort indeed.
Expensive educational moment but luckily not injury or death.
Hope she gets back on the horse again soon and does not get hounded out of town.
Looking at the pics more thats definitely NAS hangar next to Windward baloons. Lodged where their engine overhaul shop is if my memory is correct.
Very lucky no one injured or killed!
Very lucky no one injured or killed!
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Must be a Northam thing for students to run into things off the runway. Anyone remember the Cessna hitting the aerostar parked way off the runway.
http:// www.pprune.org/pacific-gener...collision.html
http:// www.pprune.org/pacific-gener...collision.html
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I'll hazard a guess for the cause at the ol' P factor torque effect that the Mooney is allegedly famous for, especially on T & G ops. Probably using RWY 14 would be the best bet as to how it ended up there, and going by what was said by some of the people on site. Quite a few of them seem to have ended up off the side of strips on takeoff/go around.
I was told when I was converting on them that they bite if you don't keep up with them but I've never had any concerns or really noticed any great predilection for them to go off track on the power up or go around. Maybe because I use the pedals for the reason they are there. I've actually noted more of a want to go to the left in a GA8 turbo Airvan.
I was told when I was converting on them that they bite if you don't keep up with them but I've never had any concerns or really noticed any great predilection for them to go off track on the power up or go around. Maybe because I use the pedals for the reason they are there. I've actually noted more of a want to go to the left in a GA8 turbo Airvan.
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Here's the correct link to the Cessna/Aerostar prang ..
http://www.pprune.org/pacific-genera...collision.html
http://www.pprune.org/pacific-genera...collision.html
A mate of mine who was there saw the accident unfold said it was not a P factor incident, it was a stall spin, following a high nose attitude after a touch and go. The reason for the reverse park factor was the final aftermath of the left wing dropping.
The cabin was relatively intact and the pilot thankfully survived with a very minor injury and shock. A testament to the strength of the Mooney steel cage structure surrounding the cabin.
The cabin was relatively intact and the pilot thankfully survived with a very minor injury and shock. A testament to the strength of the Mooney steel cage structure surrounding the cabin.
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Ah, fair enough. Too much back stick & didn't fly the plane. Only being a fairly green aviator too, PPL held for 18 months or so as per the interview of Trevor Jones from the Royal Aero Club whose plane it is/was, would not have helped.
notjustanotherpilot,
If only you had been sitting alongside her in the right hand seat, all would have been well?
And your flying experience is?
If only you had been sitting alongside her in the right hand seat, all would have been well?
And your flying experience is?
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Nah, thanks.
That can probably be said about most anyone on these fora and if indeed any of them were then they probably would have either said something or done something to help avert the crisis. And I'm not suggesting that I'm any better than any of you.
I'm commenting on exactly what I've seen and heard from the news footages, and my own limited experience in the Mooney.
And your flying experience is?
Hours wise, 2500+
That can probably be said about most anyone on these fora and if indeed any of them were then they probably would have either said something or done something to help avert the crisis. And I'm not suggesting that I'm any better than any of you.
I'm commenting on exactly what I've seen and heard from the news footages, and my own limited experience in the Mooney.
And your flying experience is?
Hours wise, 2500+
Does anyone know what that big white tank think is under the left wing, fuel, gas perhaps? (Refer to photos)