South FL plane crash

[JB74]

Someone on the beach got video of this pilot in a spin before hitting the ocean (local news just showed it). Here is the news link with pics, still searching for video (scroll down on the right). Very sad.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...rash,0,6671282.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

 

[Khirsah]

http://cbs4.com/newslocal/topstoriesmia_story_121150454.html

On the right. Video: CBS4 Team Coverage

 

[darien]

sucks great pilot just say him at the sun and fun

 

[2000flyer]

I met Ian at an airshow last year flying this aircraft. Though soft spoken, all the other pilot's stopped to listen when he spoke. He flew the Sukhoi like it was an extension of his body. I'm sure his absense at airshows will truly be missed.

2000Flyer

 

[Timebuilder]

When I saw this in TV yesterday, I thought it looked like a nice, controlled spin maneuver.

The CBS local reporter referred to the plane as a "biplane" in his report. Reporters never fail to disappoint me when it comes to aviation.

A shame. We lose people like this every year, it seems.

From the Sun Sentinel report:

Kathleen Bergen, spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said he entered a flat spin and failed to recover in time.

Did anyone here think that was a "flat spin?"

 

[Pilot124]

I wonder if he had a medical emergency in the plane or something? That video wasn't that good but it didn't look like he was in a flat spin or anything. It almost looked like he didn't even try to recover. Very sad, he will be missed.

 

[Vortilon]

I thought it looked like a flat spin to me....a real shame. I had just walked back to my hotel before it happened...glad I didn't see it in person.

Later at the FBO I witnessed the pilot's nephew hear the news...it was awful. Aerobatic pilots would have it no other way though, at least some can take comfort in that.

 

[Pilot124]

Yeah after watching the video some more it does kind of look like he went flat.

 

[Publishers]

flat

It was a flat spin that he did all the time. I watched it live and he never tried to get out of it.... Makes you suspect incapacition or something broke.

 

[ShawnC]

Re: flat

It was a flat spin that he did all the time. I watched it live and he never tried to get out of it.... Makes you suspect incapacition or something broke.

The video is kind of bad (white plane on white sky), but it appears to be a slow spin. It wasn't flat yet. It looks like me almost recovered before me hit the water.

Another excellent air show pilot killed by a low altitude spin in Florida.

There is alot of talk on the Acro list, some are saying that it might have been another broken rudder cable.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

"It looks like me almost recovered before me hit the water."

Did ye see the leprechaun too??

 

[ShawnC]

"It looks like me almost recovered before me hit the water."

Did ye see the leprechaun too??

Normal competition spin recovery is straight down with the rotation stopped, at the very end of the video it looked like his rotation was stopped and he was pointing straight down.

http://acro.harvard.edu/ACRO/acro_figures.html#spin

I should have been more descriptive.

 

[Publishers]

rudder

Hopefully they will recover the aircraft and check the rudder.

He was flat high up --- seemed to let off the back pressure -- spin slowed but never stopped to impact. Nose was down for the last several hundred feet.

It was like he let off the back pressure, came off the rudder pressure, and the rudder never going to neutral. Normally he would have come on some power too but never looked like it. Smoke was on -- went to intermitent puffs, and then stopped.