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Successful Bulldog EFATO in California
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Small airplane crashes on Layton golf course | fox13now.com
And not the only unanticipated golf course arrival yesterday! |
EMUAS!
Blimey - I flew 'Effects of Controls 1' in that Bulldog.
Cows get bigger, cows get smaller....... Glad it was a successful outcome. |
XX704. What a shame - looks quite badly bent :sad: ; it was one of "our" aircraft at EMUAS. I last flew an instructional sortie in that one twenty four years ago!
Someone crashed "mine", too! |
Small town news!
I've also got that airframe in the logbook, two flights in July 1990 whilst it was on loan to SUAS for our summer camp. G |
I was there when it happened.
Just closing the hangar and packing up as the fire engines came down the golf course lane. I didn't know what was going on until I saw this arrive as I was leaving: https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...67305899_o.jpg |
Two good outcomes. I find it fascinating, but not surprising, that in both video clips, the reporters couldn't be bothered to find out what kind of "plane" was involved.
In the Utah incident, the owner of the FBO was quick to take attention away from himself and point his finger at the pilots: The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. The aircraft was rented by the pair from Bountiful Flight. Jason Clark, owner of Bountiful Flight, spoke about the crash. “We do more inspections on these airplanes than are even required for the FAA, we go over and above what we need to do to make sure these airplane are safe,” he said. “So far, what we can tell is it wasn’t a mechanical problem; it was most likely pilot error.” |
He also said: "They did not receive training from us, they did not receive anything from us, other than renting the aircraft."
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The pilot and his passenger had flown out of Skypark Airport in Woods Cross in a rented plane and headed to Logan, said Layton Fire Inspector Doug Bitton. The pair had breakfast and on their flight back to Woods Cross experienced mechanical trouble as they neared Layton. With the plane completely shut down, the pilot spotted an open area and chose it as his emergency landing spot. The open area turned out to be Valley View's driving range. As it glided down, the plane ripped a long divot in a mound and found itself nose down in the practice sand trap. |
Doesn't the 'dog look better as a retractable :ok:
SGC |
They did make a retractable version, but it didn't look better.
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From the Bulldog 120 a four-seat sports and touring aircraft was developed, intended for the civil market, known as the Bullfinch. The prototype (G-BDOG c/n BH200-381) was flown for the first time by chief test pilot John Blair on August 20, 1976. The military version, the Bulldog Series 200, was intended to complement the fixed-gear Bulldog 120. Within a month after the maiden flight the first sale of a single aircraft was announced, but the company was not successful in finding further customers, either civil or military. In 1977 Scottish Aviation was taken up in British Aerospace and the Bullfinch was subsequently cancelled.
http://www.airport-data.com/images/a.../001022474.jpg |
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Hopefully it will be repaired, but possibly not cost effective.
Will be interested to find out the cause of the engine 'loss of power' |
Two forced landings, two aircraft destroyed.
What's sucessful about that? |
G-BDOG has now had a totally different canopy fitted and the aircraft is slightly bigger overall than the fixed gear version so it looks different close up, and sits higher. The original canopy was apparently quite a lash up and was in danger of coming off in flight.
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Bulldog forced landing...well done.
I assume that as the golf course was a municipal one then you don't have go book! |
"Two forced landings, two aircraft destroyed.
What's sucessful about that?" The crews lived - seems quite a good outcome. |
I agree that the bent metal is not as important, but the second one was pretty bad for a spam can from altitude on a golf course. it was badly mangled and both occupants injured in some way.
I had an engine failure on my first solo cross country, with a grand total of 21 hours. I was very lucky in so many ways, having a couple of soccer fields (football pitches :) ) end to end, but all the goal boxes were in place. bottom line a cessna like that will stop in 100 meters if stalled at touchdown. Solo, I got stopped in 75. |
Skyking
What was the cause of your engine failure ? |
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