Any landing is a good one if everybody walks away.
AVIATION PING!..........................
Pretty interesting the way the plane split in half....makes one wonder what exactly the crash dynamics mechanism was that yielded that outcome.
He would have had better luck trying to land at the airport there.
Come in Tower. Who put this traffic on my landing runway?
I’ll keep an eye on youtube to see if VASAviation posts the radio traffic.
That scene looks like the cover of a Sparks album.
An intersection on an interstate?
I’m not a pilot but I would have thought both engines would would have been feathered coming in, it sounded like he throttled up.
After downloading the video from ‘X’ and watching it on my favorite player, I see i was wrong. The a/c didn’t veer to the right, as if he was trying to rub against the retaining wall and scrub off speed.
It wasn’t a stabilized approach and he landed crossed-up, in a right crab. That made the plane hop and yaw left on initial touch-down. The yawing made the vertical stabilizer move violently to the right, which was what I mistook for the whole a/c being steered to the right.
It’s not on camera but next would have come more hops alternating right-left-right until either the pilot got the plane under control or it hit something.
The propellers were still spinning when he passed the cameraman (can’t speculate how fast because of the video frame rate illusion) but based on what I *think* I could see of the profiles of the propeller blades as they went past the camera, I’d bet money both were feathered.
If I were going to guess, I’d guess he’s dead-stick and he chose the Interstate for an emergency landing. But when he got closer he decided he didn’t have the altitude to make it over the overpass, so he started S-turning to shorten his final approach. And for whatever reason he failed to make a graceful transition from approach to landing and didn’t get it straightened out and wings level before touchdown.
Don’t forget the primary function of the propellers on an airplane. They’re mostly there to keep the pilot cool. Just watch him sweat when they stop spinning if you don’t believe me. It’s easy to second-guess when you’re sitting in climate controlled comfort and it’s not your life that’s at risk.