Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP birdstrike on departure and forced landing near Centennial Airport, Colorado
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- čas přidán 19. 11. 2023
- On September 2, 2023, at about 0554 local time, a Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP, N20818, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Englewood, Colorado. The CFI and student pilot received minor injuries.
The flight instructor and his student were conducting an instructional flight in the airport traffic pattern when the airplane collided with multiple geese during initial climb. Due to the collision, the engine experienced a loss of engine power, so the flight instructor continued straight ahead. He conducted a forced landing on a golf course and the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, empennage, and both wings.
Probable Cause: An in-flight collision with multiple geese during initial climb.
Birdstrikes at 0:14, airplane disappears from view 0:25 to 0:40, disappears again from view 0:54 to 1:21, landing at around 1:40
why did it disappear
that's some useful reaction time
All things considered looks / sounds like it all went about as good as it could of. Excellent job on the part of the instructor.
Great job on the instructors part of saying this in my Airplane
Good job flying all the way to the crash. A technique for a bounce with no power is to dynamically and proactively move the yoke fore/aft to bracket level pitch attitude, but that is not a common situation we generally practice toward. I never had a bird strike, but lost part of a C-172 windscreen on pipeline patrol due to a hairline crack the boss would not let the mechanic stitch with safety wire. He didn't want it to look bad.
Glad they were able to exit the plane relatively unscathed! Geese had their ‘gooses’ cooked! Dinner anyone?
Nice job by the crew. I wonder how the impacts caused the engine to lose power.
Where did they go to crash land? They could not se well both ?
What? That’s a 172 drifting off at takeoff, but the crash was a low wing airplane in the vid.?
It doesn’t look like a low wing I even zoomed in and double checked after reading your comment and it’s definitely a 172.
Never heard an instructor try so hard to cover his a**. I’m surprised he didn’t describe his breakfast that morning. The report should have started with. . . “after two uneventful touch ‘n goes, after liftoff we encountered a birdstrike, bla bla bla”. And to say that he even tried to take it straight ahead is comical. He should study-up on “horizontal component of lift” before the next time he tries to squeeze every bit of altitude out of his next sic, but still producing power, airplane.
CFI said he didnt want to do a 180 Impossible turn, but he did it and wrong way, and kept turning away until had to crash land on a bad place. He took off to the right, then came back but could not position it to land after the turnback, added power, climbed to the left and then another bad turn and away from airport. LOL.. And crashed away. Stalled it. He lied a lot o the report.
huh?