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Offline W7LPNRICK

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My friends plane
« on: August 08, 2012, 09:27:47 PM »
  The wife & I were in this plane 2 weeks before the crash... Les was badly injured, but is doing fine now.  :salute

http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/Amazing-first-person-video-of-a-plane-crash-in-Idaho-wilderness-165483276.html?tab=gallery&c=y&img=1
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2012, 09:29:08 PM »
Hope for a speedy recovery
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2012, 09:49:31 PM »
http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/Amazing-first-person-video-of-a-plane-crash-in-Idaho-wilderness-165483276.html  The video at the bottom shows live feed. His sone & sons friend were filming when they crashed. Les is my friend, the one one laying on the ground hurt.
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2012, 06:52:59 AM »
As soon as I saw 4 people in the plane it was obvious what was going to happen...  The takeoff roll takes forever, and it looks like the terrain may be slightly rising?  In any case, overloaded plane for conditions (high density altitude) in mountain flying is a recipe for disaster.

Glad they lived.  Lots of people making that exact same mistake don't survive.
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2012, 07:31:43 AM »
Poor guys  :uhoh
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2012, 11:22:57 AM »
here is a link to the clip from a second thread

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,337613.0.html
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2012, 12:13:49 PM »
Quote from: eagl on August 09, 2012, 06:52:59 AM
As soon as I saw 4 people in the plane it was obvious what was going to happen...  The takeoff roll takes forever, and it looks like the terrain may be slightly rising?  In any case, overloaded plane for conditions (high density altitude) in mountain flying is a recipe for disaster.

Glad they lived.  Lots of people making that exact same mistake don't survive.

Me and a friend were talking about that and said nearly the exact same thing lol
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2012, 12:17:09 PM »
wow! I saw this on LiveLeak! Hope for speedy recovery <S>
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2012, 01:37:55 PM »
I'm glad they all survived and I hope recovery is full for all injuries. That pilot had tons of warning and time to abort. Bad mistake.
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2012, 02:04:47 PM »
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Offline M0nkey_Man

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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2012, 02:10:57 PM »
Saw that video on Apache Clips yesterday, looked terrible :pray
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2012, 04:36:56 PM »
S!@#, a Stinson?!? 

Notoriously poor high alt performance, maybe the pilot thought his son and his friends were a couple years younger (and a hundred pounds lighter) than they were? 

I'm glad everyone is OK and all will be well, but ohbuy... don't want to jump on the bandwagon, glad your freind is OK, wonderful little plane he lost there.


Quote from: eagl on August 09, 2012, 06:52:59 AM
As soon as I saw 4 people in the plane it was obvious what was going to happen...  The takeoff roll takes forever, and it looks like the terrain may be slightly rising?  In any case, overloaded plane for conditions (high density altitude) in mountain flying is a recipe for disaster.

Glad they lived.  Lots of people making that exact same mistake don't survive.


I only saw three, but in one of these:



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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2012, 05:15:59 PM »
This video is being discussed on every pilot website in the English speaking world, and beyond. I hope when I come to grief no one posts it online. Slim chance of that as there's usually at least three Gopros on every flight.

In my case I can see exactly how it could happen to me. So I won't pass judgement.
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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2012, 05:35:37 PM »
That engine didnt sound right. Im not an expert but wouldnt you expect more RPMs in the last part of your take off? Thank the Lord they are all OK.
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Re: My friends plane
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2012, 06:17:13 PM »
Apparently the story is now on Yahoo's front page for what it's worth.
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