Another MU-2 Fatality

[Courkyle]

No disrespect to your opinion.....but I have done much homework since losing my son in one a little over a year ago....and since then eleven more have crashed....I would say that's a bit alarming....If you check out the facts you will see that 25-30% (conservative estimate) of the MU-2's made have crashed......there are nineteen pages of them on the NTSB web site True the MU-2 is a challenging airplane.....but even those trained by the best in that field.....(Howell Enterprises) which my son was, cannot recover from any loss of power, torque, stall etc. in some "low and slow" situations. Upon doing my research I found that most of these crashes occur in this "low and slow" timeframe.... either just after takeoff or just prior to landing when situations require maximum lift and deflecting a spolier causes drag. I have read documentation from very knowledgable people that say it is impossible to recover under these situations....the plane just flips upside down and nose dives to the ground. I am sure that this airplane is just fine if it does not encounter any problems....but if it does....the pilot doesn't have a chance. In my son's case....he was cleared to land for the third time and 40 seconds later he was dead.....just fell off the radar screen. With all do respect I am entitled to my opinion and the evidence is compelling. Eleven in a little over 1 year is just unacceptable in my book.

 

[ACT700]

ATRedneck, I second your first comment, the one about the frog's a$$ and the Wright bros.

Amen.

 

[GravityHater]

Eleven in a little over 1 year is just unacceptable in my book.

can we ask where you arrived at 'eleven'?

I did a search on the NTSB site
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp
using 'MU' as the make/model and it shows five in the last year, one was a forgotten gear(Ca), the other a ground incident with a tug(Pa) - leaving 3 fatals.

The Parker Co accident resulted in three ground scars 'similar in dimension to the landing gear' - suggesting; to me, a cfit.

The Hillsboro Or accident was reported by witnesses as a spin-in on take-off with possibly an excessively nose high attitude.

The Centennial Co accident had an engine failure and suggests a vmc rollover.

Unless I missed something (this is possible), none of these sound out of the ordinary, the ntsb files are rife with such accidents in all types of aircraft. In any case, it does not smack of a type that has some type of repetetive mechanical failure.

 

[aeronautic1]

No disrespect to your opinion.....but I have done much homework since losing my son in one a little over a year ago....and since then eleven more have crashed....I would say that's a bit alarming....If you check out the facts you will see that 25-30% (conservative estimate) of the MU-2's made have crashed......there are nineteen pages of them on the NTSB web site True the MU-2 is a challenging airplane.....but even those trained by the best in that field.....(Howell Enterprises) which my son was, cannot recover from any loss of power, torque, stall etc. in some "low and slow" situations. Upon doing my research I found that most of these crashes occur in this "low and slow" timeframe.... either just after takeoff or just prior to landing when situations require maximum lift and deflecting a spolier causes drag. I have read documentation from very knowledgable people that say it is impossible to recover under these situations....the plane just flips upside down and nose dives to the ground. I am sure that this airplane is just fine if it does not encounter any problems....but if it does....the pilot doesn't have a chance. In my son's case....he was cleared to land for the third time and 40 seconds later he was dead.....just fell off the radar screen. With all do respect I am entitled to my opinion and the evidence is compelling. Eleven in a little over 1 year is just unacceptable in my book.

All I can say is that every time I see MooToo parked on the ramp, I have to scratch my head and wonder how in the hell they thing ever gets in the air? I guess you put enough amperage in a cattle prod and jam it up the ass, you can make a horse deal cards... I know I never want to fly one for pay (for any amount of money) or otherwise. Same goes for the Space Shuttle. Both are designed to bite you in the ass, hard.