Posted on 12/11/2024 6:27:50 PM PST by Red Badger
📌#Victoria | #Texas
Emergency crews are on the scene in Victoria, Texas, after a small plane crashed into three vehicles at a busy intersection. Video footage shows the plane making an emergency landing as nearby drivers tried to move out of the way to avoid the descending aircraft. The incident occurred near the intersection, but no injuries have been confirmed at this time and Investigators are working to determine the cause of the emergency landing this is still developing
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Looking at the second picture, the prop looks rather straight. My guess is the engine was not running. Under power, a prop strike will bend the tips forward while low power will bend them back. Left wing tank is intact and right one should have split open.
Moe likely the sudden STOP ! 🛑
Odd, the registration says it is a Seneca but clearly it is not. N8186R. FAA usually at least gets the type right. Registered to Anderson Jet out of Houston. Flying a racetrack East of San Antonio before heading south to crash is really weird too. I’ll bet this turns out to be an interesting story. Probably some wetback trying to avoid deportation.
Please see my post: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4283988/posts?page=7#7
Yes I saw it............That appears to be the correct model, as far as I can tell.............
An intersection on an interstate?
Not interstate.............
Those are all possibilities but it seems the break point is actually way cleaner than it should be. The pictures obviously only show so much but there doesn’t appear to be near as much distortion as I would have expected.
It looks like he may have had some issue he was trying to solve and wasn’t able to before he ran out of fuel.
My speculation, but his flight pattern supports that.
No one was killed and there was no fire, so that’s the most important thing.
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.
If you land on a highway, running out of fuel is not an excuse.
There better be a clogged fuel line or filters or some mechanical trouble..................
Good A/C ID
Maybe the pilot was burning fuel before making an attempted emergency landing, but if so, why didn’t the pilot do that over a nearby airport?
Looking at the second picture, the prop looks rather straight. My guess is the engine was not running. Under power, a prop strike will bend the tips forward while low power will bend them back. Left wing tank is intact and right one should have split open.
Agree
VIDEOS:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-plane-crash-south-tx-135656753.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iq6s05I9Hc
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.
The pilot had poor fuel management. He shouldn’t have been cutting it so close.
Definitely.
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