Looking for this old footage - runaway a/c
 

Hi all

A little while ago I found the footage of this run-away aircraft at the 1998 Mangalore airshow

CNN - Pilotless plane plows into crowd at air show - Apr. 13, 1998

Cant seem find it now :ugh: . Any ideas?

I found this on Youtube, don't know if it is what you are after.

It's a Ten News report with a little bit of footage of the aircraft.

FYI, all I searched on was "Mangalore 1998) and it came up 3 from the top.

This one is also fun,

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b29K_fMe6dQ

That's me. . . I'm that 13 yr old girl

Hope you made a full recovery Mandy. :)

I was there, saw it all happen. Frightening stuff. I was hoping the fire truck would just ram it to take it out, but no.
And we wonder now why CASA rules for airshows seem so over the top?

Makes you wonder though, at an airshow with 100's of pilots around and you can't get somebody to sit in the cockpit and assist the hand start. Fair enough solo hand start when you have no option.

Back in those days, it probably didn’t even have brakes!

A better video of the incident, a lot of folk had a lucky escape, in the circumstances you're unfortunate Mandy to be the only casualty, I wish you well,

https://www.1001crash.com/aviation-v...top-plane.html

Imagine the carnage if the prop was at the front!

Judas..........,.only one person injured!!

Lottery ticket stuff Megan!

Not easy to watch that!

Thirty years or so back, one of my RAF colleagues (a navigator) owned a Renegade Spirit biplane powered by a Rotax 2 stroke which had become very difficult to start. He tied the tail wheel to one of the hangar door supports while he worked on it alone. I think he eventually flooded the engine with fuel so he opened the throttle more and more while he pulled it through. When it suddenly started, the tail tie down broke and off it went across the concrete. He grabbed the wing tip but after a few rotations on the ramp he realised it was getting away from him. He let it go as it was pointing away from the hangar whereupon it ran onto the adjacent grass, nose over, stalled the engine and broke the prop.

I think he sold it not long after that because it wasn’t the first time he had badly frightened himself with it. The first time was when he managed to inadvertently flick roll it after unstrapping whilst trying to remove a badly stowed object jamming the control column at low level. He only just prevented himself from falling out over the clubhouse at Popham!