1965 CESSNA 172G N3753L Crash lands at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades / Los Angeles, CA

I am extremely impressed with the SUCCESSFUL MANEUVERING by the pilot after 10 feet altitude. 40 degree flaps can make a whole lot of difference in energy at touchdown.

They missed everything important to miss, and the plane is mostly intact.

Might even fly out when the problem is corrected.
 
Pilot did a great job getting it down in one piece. Nice dog leg turn to stay aligned with the fairway.
 
"Are they ok?"

Dunno...maybe go check?


That was absolutely phenomenal navigating around the rough and the sand trap.
 
... and the award for greatest ever emergency golf course landing goes to ...

That was spectacular! :happydance:
 
Also a fair amount of luck here. Wondering if a hard slip would have landed shorter on the fairway. But amazing still to avoid the sand traps and a bounce at the right time to clear the curb.
 
Probably would have been a smooth landing if the pilot went for the hole in one but a few people were in the way so had to take the curb instead.
 
This still all looks like AI generated animation to me... I'm willing to be wrong, but at times, the trees and background get pretty fake looking. I notice at one point near the end, the landing gear appears to go below the grass surface for a second. OTOH, the details on things like golf carts and the observer at the end are realistic.

I did look at the tail number, which matches a green/white 172, so like I said, willing to be wrong, but the physics at the beginning, the camera angles (perfect) and the trees look like a high end flight sim.
 
Chris Mixon said:
This still all looks like AI generated animation to me... I'm willing to be wrong, but at times, the trees and background get pretty fake looking. I notice at one point near the end, the landing gear appears to go below the grass surface for a second. OTOH, the details on things like golf carts and the observer at the end are realistic.

I did look at the tail number, which matches a green/white 172, so like I said, willing to be wrong, but the physics at the beginning, the camera angles (perfect) and the trees look like a high end flight sim.
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The overhead still shot looks fake. But everything else about the incident including the dozens of legit sources reporting it are very much real. At a certain point you've gotta stop being a conspiracy theorist and admit someone did something absolutely amazing.
 
Nice save but another flight with not enough fuel??
 
Looked like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride there getting over the curb and spun around. Surprised one the landing gear didn't get sheared off.
 
Chris Mixon said:
This still all looks like AI generated animation to me... I'm willing to be wrong, but at times, the trees and background get pretty fake looking. I notice at one point near the end, the landing gear appears to go below the grass surface for a second. OTOH, the details on things like golf carts and the observer at the end are realistic.

I did look at the tail number, which matches a green/white 172, so like I said, willing to be wrong, but the physics at the beginning, the camera angles (perfect) and the trees look like a high end flight sim.
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Some built-in video processing imparts what we used to call (in the early digital photography days) a "painterly" look. This looks like that.
 
I have since been convinced....It still looks fake, but that says more about how advanced computer animation has become. It really has that uncanny valley effect.
 
Chris Mixon said:
This still all looks like AI generated animation to me... I'm willing to be wrong, but at times, the trees and background get pretty fake looking.
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Kenny Phillips said:
Some built-in video processing imparts what we used to call (in the early digital photography days) a "painterly" look. This looks like that.
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Squeezing all the megapixels (we're up to 40+ these days) on a sensor smaller than a pepper seed, all in the name of marketing for the sheep that need a new phone every year, induces a massive amount of noise and diffraction-induced softness.

So the denoising/sharpening algorithms attempt to compensate for that by flattening everything and then boosting contrast and saturation. With the end result bring the flat oversaturated mess we see.
It's the equivalent of the early 2000s CD loudness wars, where new "remastered" albums were coming out with a metric shton of dynamic compression, all in the name of making it sound louder.
 
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There was an interview on the VAS aviation channel with this pilot. Looks like it was carb ice seized the engine
 
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