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940lbs is just 60lbs short of 1/2 ton overweight to put in perspective.

Women shouldn't fly airplanes or drive cars!!! The evidence is everywhere.

no after take off check list completion and no instrument panel monitoring. neither looked at the instrument panel well enough to notice any anomalies.

82ND AIRBORNE Nice work...subbing.

I suspected they would probably have loaded jet fuel into the fuel tanks… From day one we are taught as pilots to maintain airspeed… This was probably a very survivable situation.

It's easy to blame the pilot and I know he should know what fuel his aircraft takes and make sure THAT'S what is going into the aircraft but for heavens sake there was an AVGAS ONLY label near the filler the refueller has eye's in his head and just a little common sense and IMO bears at least an equal share of the blame 😢

cannot a technician tell whether an airplane takes jet fuel or avgas? the technician knows what he has in his truck. does he have both jet fuel and avgas? then the technician should be like an old gas station attendant and ask what the person would like: leaded or unleaded. avgas or jet fuel. and if the cap says avgas only then the technician should heed that too. would you put regular gas in a diesel engine even if no one says which to use? theres obvious signs of what a vehicle takes. this sounds like the technician's to blame.

“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect” - Captain Alfred G. Lamplugh

Being a technical head and past aircraft engineer the 520 engine belongs to Continental not Lycoming

You can easily smell the difference from 20 feet

Why didnt they swerve onto the grass

I must admit the runways and taxiways poorly marked

Oh this is So Sad R.I.P. to All the Poor Souls on Board 🌹

Same old story as in countless other vids; the pilots try to turn back and stall, it's killed lots of pilots who don't seem to have heard of the old aviation saying- "Never turn back". It's because using the ailerons in the turn messes up the airflow over the inside wing which is always the one that stalls.

I worked in the flight kitchen at MKE. The cookies are Pillsbury chocolate chip from the same tubes you can buy in any grocery store. A deer on the ground also perished in the fire.

That's not a 421 C in vid game

I'm a pilot and losing an engine or engines does NOT mean you will end up in a stall !!

The closest thing similar in my life was when a gas station attendant filled my 70 something Oldsmobile diesel with gasoline. I caught the mistake barely as I saw the attendant hang up the nozzle. They drained the tank and schooled the attendant. The gas filler tube says "diesel fuel only" and I was in the "diesel only" lane. Diesel Olds sedans were new and not usual.

Eighty Deuce Great job guys...

Democrat, Equity, and Inclusion hire… The fueler should have been charged with manslaughter. 😮

What's with the black exhaust smoke all the time? That's a big error on your part.

My BMW would have the serious shits too if I put 87 in it.

Stewart AFB New York hauling a lot of Army cadets. They’d just converted an avgas truck to JP4 . 8:11 8:11

Stewart AFB New York hauling a lot of Army cadets. They’d just converted an avgas truck to JP4 . 8:11

Stewart AFB New York hauling a lot of Army cadets. They’d just converted an avgas truck to JP4 .

Stewart AFB New York hauling a lot of Army cadets. They’d just converted an avgas truck to JP4 .

Guess he didn’t know how to glide. You’d think a refueling guy that’s around aircraft all day would know the difference between a piston and turbo prop?

The fueler should have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, 3 counts.

The pilot should have noticed sky high EGT's. The pilot was irresponsible.

It was a 63 series aircraft. It was an excellent crew.

There is nothing in the accident report that indicates a stall/spin. The aircraft was in a generally eastbound direction and level when it hit the ground. Consistent with a takeoff from RWY 26. It turned over and caught fire when impacting the ground. It sounds more like an emergency landing and then they hit something that inverted and smashed up the aircraft with a rapid post crash fire when fuel hit the overhead engines. The only pilot mistake I cans see is failing to check what fuel you got. The FBO had not fitted the recommended larger nozzle and it sounds in the report like the fuel guy had inadequate training for the job and was the only one on duty.

Very realistic visuals. Thanks

That was really sad and horrible! RIP everyone.

Isn't 1980 to 2024 44 years old??????? ROFL

Yea, easy to blame a dead pilot! The idiot who was refueling should be able to read - or was this a case of employing someone who could not read English in NM? It will take a lot to convince me the pilot was there when the refueling was taking place - watching in other words! This more seems like a blame the pilot as he cannot contradict the technician and they do not want to accept liability, at any cost!

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That was not supposed to happen, due to changes made after the 1970 Air Acres Martin 404 crash in Atlanta. Warning labels were made mandatory, and jet fuel nozzles are designed not to fit in Avgas receptacles. But it still happens.

The aircraft is not a 421. Think it is a 402.

Fool and fuel is a fatal mixture.

if i wanted to read about it i would buy the book

The different filler neck size prevents filling jet fuels into an ac gas openings. The fueling contractor had a fueling contract with the military to fuel their airplanes. They do not have that safety measure built in. That made possible to dispense jet fuel into an av gas tank. They lost the fueling contract

Was the fuel/gas cap placard in english?what kind of knuckleheads are they hiring to fuel planes,jets,helicopters out in New Mexico?

My heart especially goes out to the family of the patient that perished in this incident. May you eventually find peace of mind. It may take a while, but you will find it if you seek it.❤

Multiple areas where the error could have been avoided. Rocker on fuel inlet stated AVGAS Only, refuler pulled out hose labeled JET A, odor of avgas and jet fuel different (gasoline vs kerosene), color of fuel different, pilot didn't do a thorough walk-around prior to takeoff (did he stick the tanks?), did pilot not watch refueling?, did he not notice different odor of fuel, what about the fuel receipt?, why not immediately shut down bad engine and feather prop, too low an altitude for returning on one engine and had to make a low-altitude turn, better to attempt to land in field. Multiple incorrect decisions made at critical points.

How the hell does the guy doing the refueling not know that airplane needed 100ll? Wow.

Did he text anyone on the ground he was taking selfies?

May the families of the crew have at least some solice that they perished helping others❤❤❤

I wonder how many young commercial pilots take selfies with hundreds of passengers on-board?

This strikes close to home for me. I used to be a flight medic. That reg number looks very familiar. I may have either been on that A/C or met it before. Our program sustained a loss of a BK-117. Pilot switched to a dry tank. Auto-rotated into the ground. No loss of life, but pilot was in rehabilitation for months afterwards finally gaining the ability to walk again. One reason I left that field was there are way too many programs willing to fly in weather that is below minimums. Hospitals don't help. They do what we called "helicopter shopping". Weather bad?? Keep calling until one accepts. Pilots may sometimes be forced (either by the program or self-forced) into accepting a mission in bad weather due to patient aquity. The pilot should think only of crew safety, not completing the mission at any cost. Any crew member in a properly run program should have the ability to say NO to the mission. You have to think of weather where you are at, where you are picking up, at you destination and everywhere in-between. There have been missions where we were picking up and weather closed in. Sometimes we would call the local EMS to transport us to our destination and the pilot would wait out the weather. It sucks to go into I-IFR. Easy to lose situational awareness and make a CFIT, strike a tower or power cable. I've lost too many of my EMS family. We have to remember that we did not make the patient sick and crashing does not make them better. Old saying "There are old pilots, there are bold pilots. But there are no old bold pilots." There is no room for cowboys here. My 2¢.

DEI hired ramp rat ?