Posted on 08/15/2010 11:48:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog
NASCAR racing legend Jack Roush appears to blame air traffic controllers working EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh for the events that led to the crash landing of his Beech Premier jet on July 27. "The reality of it -- on a trip arrival into Oshkosh, Wisc., I was put in conflict with the flight plan of another airplane close to the ground, and I was unable to address the conflict and keep the airplane flying. I ground-looped the airplane..." Roush told the car racing publication Motorsports. Tower recordings do seem to suggest a clipped discussion between two controllers in which one wonders whether instructions issued to Roush could be successfully accomplished. "Is 6JR (Roush's plane) going to be OK with this?" a controller asks. "Affirmative," says the controller working Roush's aircraft. "Don't think so," says the other controller. Seconds later the first controller begins ordering traffic on final to go around. The NTSB has issued its preliminary report and says, based on amateur video it has seen, Roush apparently overshot the centerline of the runway and made several course corrections.
"The airplane appeared to overshoot the runway centerline during this turn and then level its wings momentarily before entering a slight right bank simultaneously as the nose of the airplane pitched up," the report says. "The airplane then turned left toward the runway centerline and began a descent. During this descent the airplane's pitch appeared to increase until the airplane entered a right bank and struck the grass area west of the runway in a nose down, right wing low attitude." The aircraft had a cockpit voice recorder and it's being analyzed. Meanwhile, Roush is out of hospital after two weeks of surgeries and treatments for severe facial injuries...
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I know Jack Rosuh loves to fly, but after two near fatal accidents it might be time to turn in his wings.
Ouch. I think he lost his vision in that one eye.
That’s correct. Aviate, Navigate, Communicate; in that order.
TC
Considering your screen name, Jack is very lucky, because this should have been a smoking hole in the ground.
Just a couple of points:
based on amateur video it has seen, Roush apparently overshot the centerline of the runway and made several course corrections.
When he overshot the centerline, that is when the decision should have been made to go around. It was a major overshoot according to witnesses as it put him over the crowd and heading for the tower. Over the crowd is relative, because the airshow had been over about 15 minutes by my guess or the “crowd” would have been in the thousands. He was so far off the centerline of the active runway that the runway and taxiway were on his left, and as seen in the pictures, he is angled even further off centerline toward the aircraft parking and spectator viewing area.
My wife and I were in the Flying Magazine booth when she said “whats that”, I looked up and said “I don’t know” wondering at the moment if she was wanting to know type aircraft, or why it was visible and doing steep turns a hundred feet off the deck. The second turn observed, was decending, and I knew then the airplane was headed for a crash. The crump was heard a couple of seconds later, and everyone knew it had crashed. The next words out of my wife were, “where is the smoke”. Of course milliseconds after the crump usually follows the first explosion.
Miracles happen. and in this case, following the one in Alabama nine years previous, even more so since the engines apparently kept running for a considerable time after the crash.
Jeez, that looks like me on flight simulator.
Where was his actual touch down spot? By the looks of the classics in the parking areas of the photos, was he just north or south of the Ultralight area when he hit?
I was between the tower and the taxiway, and maybe a hundred yards from the viewing area in the area of the tower. The touchdown point would have been short of the ultralight area, but I can’t be sure as I was (I’m guessing) 2000 feet from the crash site.
The AeroShell acro team T-6s were parked on the taxiway, just past Aeroshell square toward the classic parking, toward the south and Jack was maybe 500 to 1000 feet past them, when he came to rest, and on line with them meaning he would have had to fly right over them.
Fly, might be the wrong word because at this point he was inroute to crashing. I was on the north side of Aeroshell square about the same distance that Jack’s plane was on the south side of aeroshell when it stopped.
We didn’t walk any closer to the crash site. The door was not open yet and the fire trucks passed us as we arrived at the viewing line. Took till the news broadcast later that evening to find out it was Jack. I had been to a late morning seminar earlier that same day with Jack and Bud Anderson, WWII P-51 pilot.
Based on the angle of view from the Flying Magazine booth/tent where we were, I would guess jack was abeam Aeroshell square and approximately 1000 feet from his stopping point. I would have to look at the runway layout, but my guess would be, slightly over half of the runway behind him when he came to a stop.
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