Yeah, oldie but goodie. That guy really should not be allowed near a plane, or any other vehicle, in his lifetime. Personally, I believe there is no way this guy had a legally obtained license. He just did about everything possible thing wrong.
gdk: btw, the engine appears to have started *by itself* after the crash – the pilot dude was not quite crazy enough to try driving the bird out of the water.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure those engines were shut down. You can hear it go through the automatic start. That initial spinning is just from the starter and trying to get the turbine going fast enough to ignite. The engine doesn’t actually start until you see the flame + smoke come out the back.
That’s salt water the plane is in (per the accident report) so it must have shorted out something that triggered the engine start. The amazing thing is that the angles are just such that the engine doesn’t suck in a bunch of water and drown itself.
You really have to wonder what (if anything) the pilot was thinking: a downwind, long landing at an airport closed to jets. Okay, maybe his native language wasn’t English and he didn’t get the “closed to jet traffic” note on his airport diagram, and I’ve been a little confused flying into a new airport once myself, but how did he miss the windsock?
One other thing — the pilot’s where the buck stops, but why did air traffic control clear him to Bader (AIY) when (a) he’d mentioned he was headed to ACY (Atlantic City International), and (b) they knew his aircraft type and knew (or should have known) that AIY was closed to jet traffic?
Looks like ATC may have added to his confusion, especially given it was an IFR flight plan, but there’s nothing in the report about him questioning that (which he should have done).
This has in common something with many other accident reports I’ve read: it wasn’t just one thing that went wrong, but a bunch of things.
At 8:40 remaining, the keen eye will notice a female passenger disembarking — having suffered explosive declothification.
That guy is one crazy sumbitch.
Yeah, oldie but goodie. That guy really should not be allowed near a plane, or any other vehicle, in his lifetime. Personally, I believe there is no way this guy had a legally obtained license. He just did about everything possible thing wrong.
gdk: btw, the engine appears to have started *by itself* after the crash – the pilot dude was not quite crazy enough to try driving the bird out of the water.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure those engines were shut down. You can hear it go through the automatic start. That initial spinning is just from the starter and trying to get the turbine going fast enough to ignite. The engine doesn’t actually start until you see the flame + smoke come out the back.
That’s salt water the plane is in (per the accident report) so it must have shorted out something that triggered the engine start. The amazing thing is that the angles are just such that the engine doesn’t suck in a bunch of water and drown itself.
You really have to wonder what (if anything) the pilot was thinking: a downwind, long landing at an airport closed to jets. Okay, maybe his native language wasn’t English and he didn’t get the “closed to jet traffic” note on his airport diagram, and I’ve been a little confused flying into a new airport once myself, but how did he miss the windsock?
One other thing — the pilot’s where the buck stops, but why did air traffic control clear him to Bader (AIY) when (a) he’d mentioned he was headed to ACY (Atlantic City International), and (b) they knew his aircraft type and knew (or should have known) that AIY was closed to jet traffic?
Looks like ATC may have added to his confusion, especially given it was an IFR flight plan, but there’s nothing in the report about him questioning that (which he should have done).
This has in common something with many other accident reports I’ve read: it wasn’t just one thing that went wrong, but a bunch of things.