Emergency Landing On Street Caught On Tape…From The Cockpit

April 22nd, 2009 (8) Posted By ticticboom.

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  • http://www.operatorchan.org Hughes_dePayens

    Hahaha, they pull into a parking lot at the end, awesome.

    • Indy

      Textbook, fly the plane, fly the plane, fly the plane.Although he will need a change of shorts. :lol:
      To bad it wasn’t a gas station. He could have told the attendant, Filler up!

  • http://deleted tedders

    A new Sully!

  • Hardball1911

    It wasn’t that he was out of gas. I think they determined he either got bad gas or the gas pump mechanism failed.

    He was going to a Fly In in Lakeland. Landed on one of the busiest streets in the area, and lucked out that the traffic just happened to be at a low…

    Awesome job flying. A LOT of pilots would not have done quite as well. Same category as the Hudson pilot IMO.

    • Hardball1911

      I love to fly sims, btw. I tried the same landing in Microsoft FS 2004 and only accomplished two out of ten without loss of airspeed resulting in a crunch at the end. Starting, of course at the 60 knots he was flying. His was a smaller plane than a Cessna 187, but that’s about the smallest I have in the sim.

  • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Texas_Flag_Come_and_Take_It.svg Allen TX (Come and Take It)

    To my eye, it looked like the co-pilot was an instructor, he was offering landing suggestions, and he was fooling around with the center console which is where the throttle and mixture are, (both capable of killing the engine). Not really the best place to train someone how to make an emergency landing. Guy made a smooth landing without crunching anything. WTG

  • http://www.onetakemedia.net Matt

    Holy cow, that takes nerves of steel. Nice landing! :beer: :beer:

  • DesignR

    No matter what, the NTSB will be visiting him soon. As a licensed pilot I shuddered while I watched this one.

    He might have one of those new ‘Sportsman’ pilots license to fly that SkyCatcher 162 type light aircraft. The engine sounded like a modified chainsaw motor. Speculation time; to me it sounded like crap in the fuel.

    If he had not been able to restart the engine so many times, this easily could have been fatal. I could not see where he would have put down without damage to the craft, himself or being killed.

    Good job Mr. Pilot.