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Video of DeHav. Beaver crashing at Anchorage,AK float plane airport.

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Snowizard

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I like AK, been there as a tourist many times. I look at the ADN paper every day online.
Caught this today.
Bystander fellow just video taping planes taking off at Lk.Spenard at random. I've done the same myself. :o
Plane barely lifts off, nearly hits camera man, and crashes a few feet away. All Caught on video. :eek:
Read comments below article. Most say stall, not wind gust.
Lucky everybody survives. 4 people, 2 dogs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwlodvWh7w&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity%2Eadn%2Ecom%2Fadn%2Fnode%2F141784&feature=player_embedded

Link to full article.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/822923.html
 
looks like to me he was looking out the right side of the plane and not the left
 
Holychit!! That camera man probably crapped his pants! Why didn't that pilot use the rest of the lake, what a retard? lol:eek:
 
Wow he was on step a loooong time there...what the hell was going on?

Also never seen a guy not take off in a straight shot. seems weird
 
i think the take off was geared for the camera man for the video and they just got to carried away with trying to compliment each other for the vid rather then safe flying
 
Thanks for posting that. Ive flown out of Lake Hood probably a hundred times in my life and thankfully had a pilot that succeeded in every one. Its quite the video, right place right time kind of things.
 
tc_villain said:
Ive flown out of Lake Hood probably a hundred times in my life and thankfully had a pilot that succeeded in every one.
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Back in the 90's I took a day-long "flight seeing" trip with Ketcham (sp) flight service based there. Was a great day in a "Beaver" they bought from Exxon, and had the engine converted to turbine driven propeller. Wow, talk about smooth and powerful. But sounded like a shop-vac running all day.
 
Fly out of hood quite a bit, busy place for sure.

He looked loaded and seemed to be building speed into the turn. The "guest of wind" excuse is kinda hard to believe for me. But it depends on the amount of flaps he had in. The ailerons on the Beaver droop with flaps and thus their travel is reduced. A gust of wind could easily (and has many times before) caused the plane to be in a position that recovery from would not be possible without time, aileron input, time, full rudder input, and most importantly time. This is one reason why experienced Beaver pilots will almost never climb out steeply with flaps in. They would rather accelerate flat and get rid of the flaps before they get into a gusty situation.

Tha pilot was inexperienced, he just got checked out in that plane on june 6th. For float take-offs, when in doubt, chicken out. Don't let your ego give you a hard lesson.

Another 350k classic wrecked, shame

After watching it a few times he doesnt look all that heavy. I have had a gross weight Beaver all the way into the channel before it got off.
 
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Another one of my beloved Beavers bites the dust. I have seen and been on dozens and dozens of take offs and have never seen one like that . It just breaks my heart to lose another Beaver. Thankfully everyone survived. After watching some more, the engine just doesn't sound like full throttle but hard to tell not being there.
 
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He was dragging the keels way too long. He needed to check forward more and build speed. Been there done that, it doesn't work well, LOL !
 
Wolfrun said:
Another one of my beloved Beavers bites the dust. I have seen and been on dozens and dozens of take offs and have never seen one like that . It just breaks my heart to lose another Beaver. Thankfully everyone survived. After watching some, more the engine just doesn't sound like full throttle but hard to tell not being there.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. Not enough throttle for starters.
 
At the 35 second mark it looks like he picked up a float but didn't counter drag release with right rudder (maybe he ran out of rudder) whatever happened, it seems to me that was the point where it veers left and ends up too close to shore. I agree that the rpms sounded low and he was definitely hanging it on the prop when he went over the camera but if you're watching the fence get taller and taller in the windshield it would be hard to push the nose over.:face-icon-small-hap
 
m8magicandmystery said:
i think the take off was geared for the camera man for the video and they just got to carried away with trying to compliment each other for the vid rather then safe flying
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I agree 100%.
Look at the end of the video at the lake in the background.
There were no boats visible and the wind appears to be from the pilot's right to his left if you look at the spray and the exhaust from the Plane.

The pilot was (Obvious to me anyway) showing off for the camera man instead of continuing his turn to his right to use the wind and the length of the lake.

He was dragging the aft portion of his pontoons WAAY deep for a very long time and it sounded as thought he even cut back on his throttle a bit but I'm sure that was just poor sound quality of the video.

Glad all made it out OK.
I hope the pilot loses his license.
Too nice of a plane not to be slapped around for such a blatant violation of flight safety rules.
What a shame.
 
no sure of that aiprlanes payload and apparently the pilot wasnt either. He had alot of runway to use in front of him that was wasted. He had to be showing off for camera guy.
 
Like others said, looks like he was showing off and got himself into a situation he didn't know how to get out of before he realized it. People who don't take flying seriously wreck planes and give general aviation a bad rep.
 
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