Posted on 04/11/2025 9:59:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Boca Raton
Seriously — what the heck is happening with all these aircraft crashes recently?
Three people have reportedly been killed in a small plane has crashed near Boca Raton Airport in Florida. ...
Videos of the scene showed smoke billowing from several fires at the side of a highway lined with palm trees.
The aircraft had reported mechanical issues at around 10.17am, according to BocaNewsNow.
Video and photos of the horrific incident rolled in on social media on Friday morning:
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
How about slipping it and landing it?
There are some variances but the numbers are pretty close year to year , not only in number of crashes but fatalities as well.
From the radar plot it looks like the plane was having control problems - reversed aileron control cables?
1977 Cessna 310R, registered to Delaware LLC.
Took off from Boca for Tallahassee and then tried to turn around.
From the Interwebs:
In 2022, a total of 6,218 individuals died in motorcycle crashes in the United States.
In 2022, 358 people died in airplane accidents involving U.S.-registered civilian aircraft.
I suppose that’s possible, but it would be extremely difficult, maybe Bob Hoover could do it
I’m surprised he didn’t stall and crash on that very first left turn after lifting off. He circled back right over the runway. Must have been an immediate problem.
No preflight check?
In 2022, General Aviation (GA) had about 1,277 total accidents in the U.S., with a fatal accident rate of roughly 0.945 per 100,000 flight hours.
Commercial aviation, by contrast, had a fatal accident rate closer to 0.0 per 100,000 hours for major airlines, with only a handful of serious incidents.
The gap has narrowed over time—GA fatal accidents dropped from over 600 annually in the 1980s to under 300 in recent years—but commercial remains way safer per flight hour.
Records should reveal whether
a pre flight check was accomplished.....and it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t.
Very sad.
Where is a reason we don’t all have flying cars.
It was a Cessna 310R, which is a twin engine, with three-blade propellers each. While the second engine provides a backup once airborne, they are quite tricky on take off if one of the engines fails, and they make big explosions when they crash full of fuel.
The second engine on a light twin is good for taking you all the way to the crash site.
Maybe GenZ and Milennials can only think in 2D, thanks to the display screens on their ‘wonderful instruments’.
I know exactly where that is, my law firm has an office several hundred feet away from where that photo was taken. The airport is in the north east quadrant of the intersection of Glades Rd. and I-95 and planes approaching from the SW are right over Glades an 95 as they make a normal approach the runway. The spaghetti trace of the flight path suggests a real directional control crisis. Unfortunately there is a lot of development near the airport, offices, restaurants the FIU campus, I-95 on the west.
Living in FL for 2 decades gave me a lot of experience in reading about general aviation accidents - because there is a lot of aviation activity in that state. Generally good weather, no terrain complications, people with money to blow on planes/boats/fast cars but lacking in skill to operate them. You see it all there. And it generally boils down to arrogance. People are over confident in their skills (”I’m great surgeon/dentist/lawyer ergo I must be able to fly this plane! I fly a lot in VFR conditions, how hard could it be to fly in those clouds?”) and it ends up killing them. This could be a mechanic’s error, it could be a mechanical failure, or design failure, it could be pilot error in the presence of other factors or all by itself. There will be a thorough NTSB investigation and the results will help others in the future avoid this kind of catastrophe.
Prayers for those lost/injured in this accident.
They are already blaming him...
Yup, I was thinking along the same lines.
But you would need more experience to land such a crippled plane than the average private pilot might have.
Probably depend on how far over rudder is stuck.
I had an air charter pilot brag about running every ground operation on one engine. One day the tower requested he perform an expedited takeoff. He did, and darn near rolled over in a stall. He got started and up to full power just after rotation.
He stopped doing that.
I've seen planes land with pilot tube covers still on the tube inlets. How and why would you take-off without airspeed indication?
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