Amateur cockpit video of a Boeing E75 Stearman forced landing near Honea Path, South Carolina
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- čas přidán 19. 12. 2023
- On September 21, 2020, about 1949 eastern daylight time, a Stearman E75, N1524M, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Honea Path, South Carolina. The private pilot and his airline transport pilot-rated student were seriously injured. The flight was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.
The airplane departed and was in a continuous climb at 70 mph, at 2,500 rpm. The pilot observed a cylinder depart the engine and experienced a partial loss of engine power. A video of the event recorded the sound of the engine becoming quieter and the tachometer showed a continuous 1,000 rpm reading following the separation. The video captured the airplane maneuvering over open fields suitable for a forced landing as it descended back towards the departure airstrip. The recording ended before the airplane was destroyed by contact with trees and terrain 500 feet prior to the landing strip.
Examination of the nine-cylinder radial engine revealed a separated cylinder, with all of its associated mounting studs fractured. Three of the mounting studs displayed features consistent with fatigue, likely due to inadequate torque applied at overhaul, which was completed less than 100 aircraft hours prior to the accident.
Probable Cause: The partial loss of engine power due to the fatigue failure of an engine cylinder and the pilot's subsequent decision to overfly several suitable forced-landing sites while attempting to return to the departure airstrip.
Sad to see this happen. Hard to determine not being in the plane but it appeared they had chances for safer places to try and land. Hope they are making a full recovery.
Not often that you hear : "...pilot observed a cylinder depart the engine..." or that the pilot "...saw a puff of smoke and a jug fly by ..." 😳
WHY in the world was the aircraft destroyed???? There were perfect landing spots everywhere!!!! I don't get it! Grateful they both made it, but I just don't understand!!
Yeah, but that’s easy to say when you are sat on the ground watching it back with hindsight. Put yourself in that situation and see how you respond
@@Spooky_32 I am in a constant flight environment and several of our pilots have experienced complete engine failure (one with a lost cylinder in a C172!) and every single one of them has been able to land in a field or on a road without injury and at the worst some damage to landing gear. I have myself had engine problems, partial loss of power, and fortunately always been close enough to gain altitude and land again. There are lots of such incidents which you never hear about because they never make the news. Pilots have to hold themselves to a higher standard and learn from events like this.
@@flyer617I have to agree with you. Flying a airplane is fun but if you cant dedicate time to train and be proficient you shouldn't be flying. You have the life of innocent people in your hands.
Not going to Monday morning quarterback this thing but… I have never had any engine problems but an old instructor I had for my primary instruction told me this, “if your engine ever quits, you don’t owe that engine or airplane anything. Put it down in the first field or road you see underneath you and save your ass. Don’t ever try to extend a ‘possibly better’ spot.”
Man lotsa landing options passed by.
That engine sounded bad from the start of the video - not sure if it's related to the failure or not. Also, two engine overhauls in just a few years seems very strange. Sum Ting Wong!
I guess the pilot thought he'd make it back to the airport rather than landing in one of those very appropriate fields - bad decision.
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Agreed, engine sounded bad and the nose seemed really high for cruise flight, it was not delivering normal performance as the first clue. GA pilots wanna go through a checklist and return to the airport.
GA accidents are why DG is so passionate about education on choices that can be made to ‘stay alive’. Those two gentlemen are lucky to still be alive!
So apparently the pilot was determined to crash no matter how long it took.
ALARMS Checklist..... "A": Airspeed / Best Glide "L": Landing Spot then "RMS": Only after A and L are done.
An old timer, with I want to say 8 engine failures over a 60-year flying career, told me to find a spot then take half of it and land. Especially in a round motor plane.
He was on right downwind leg when lost most power. Tried to keep going to a far away base leg instead of doing a short approach. Crashed 500 feet from runway. Chumpy cant do short approaches. Afraid of short approaches. OMG, they are so hard to do.. OMG !
This guy had all kinds of perfect places to land and ops to show his inability to react and land in a safe location…..🤡