Posted on 04/01/2025 7:21:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Plane that crashed into a home in Minnesota went straight down "Like a lawn dart", caught of neighbor's RING camera.
Can some FReeper pilots explain this?...........
2:25 VIDEO AT LINK...................
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Aviation Ping....................
Not a pilot, but:
First it started to crash, then it crashed.
Stall, Spin, Crash Burn,... Controlled flight into Terrain...
Gravity is the law.
Dolan served on the board of Catholic Charities. It sounds like he was a huge contributor of time and money to the boards of many charities in Minnesota. But the Catholic Charities connection makes me go “hmmm” especially when thinking about what DOGE is exposing and investigating.
I’ve seen plenty of videos showing a plane losing power, it doesn’t translate to just falling out of the sky like this. Wouldn’t you have to lose control of all the flight control surfaces? flaps, etc..?
...unless he had a heart attack or something and slumped over the yoke?
Not CFIT.
Alone, long flight, 63 years old. Medical? Fatigue? Just bored and drowsy?
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13905338/us-bank-terry-dolan-plane-crash-minnesota/
...air traffic control officers at Anoka airport warned the pilot he was flying too low, per the ABC affiliate KSTP-TV.
The aircraft crashed at around 12:20pm - just minutes before it was set to land.
It had taken off from Des Moines airport in Iowa just after 11:10am local time.
The plane left Naples in Florida at 7:25am local time before landing in Des Moines around four hours later, according to Flightaware data.
A SOCATA TBM-700 aircraft can carry up to six people...
I realize it was a stretch, but he screwed up big time on this one, doesn’t look like he tried to pull up at all..
May have torn the elevator off trying to recover loss of control.
That was my guess.
There was possible icing conditions at the time, if ice builds up on the wings, the aircraft loses lift. There’s only one way it can go.
The most likely scenario is a stall, which can have one or more causes. If the engine on a single engine plane fails, the plane will still glide, but not if the pilot panics and pulls back on the stick, stalling the plane.
No pilot in control would be my guess. Flight medicals can’t prevent anything.
Uncontrolled flight into terrain.
Catholic Charities are the biggest supporter of illegals for the last 20 years or more.
Here is what a stall and crash looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=727Q2fDVXRQ
According to some aviation experts the most likely scenario is, he was configuring to land , had the autopilot on, started pulling back on the power while he was distracted by other tasks, was not watching his artificial horizon, the autopilot was struggling to keep altitude by raising the nose while under reduced power, he got slow, the plane stalled and the autopilot kick off when the stall occurred.
At that point he became a passenger. These slick high performance turbo props aren’t like a Piper cub, stall recover take a lot of altitude (which he did not have at 1600 AGL) . A ring camera in the neighborhood shows the stall/spin. He apparently tried to add power but by the time hid did it was all over. RIP. These slick planes require the pilots utmost attention. They are nit a Cherokee.
There will be preliminary analysis by people on youtube soon, some probably up already. 90% of small plane crashes are caused by pilot error. There will be an initial report by the NTSB fairly soon, but those tend to have little info unless something obvious is noticed. Communications from the pilot, or the lack of same is the first important info.
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