Bonanza N229TT lands on road near GVL

Stopping by for a pizza? I have friends that live near that part of Gainesville, and that road is a very busy one. Its a miracle nobody was hurt.
 
By the look of the cowl, prop, and nose gear. That's one helluva slam dunk approach.
 
This video shows the pilot dropped it in from 60 or 70 feet as it stalled onto a clear opposite traffic lane, then the right wing hit traffic in the other lane and spun the plane around striking a car with the nose. Good work IMO, a successful off airport emergency landing that didn't injure anyone.

 
3393RP said:
This video shows the pilot dropped it in from 60 or 70 feet as it stalled onto a clear opposite traffic lane, then the right wing hit traffic in the other lane and spun the plane around striking a car with the nose. Good work IMO, a successful off airport emergency landing that didn't injure anyone.

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That was where I flew out of. There are no good options for an off-airport landing. Roads, railways, a cemetary, some parking lots, and a city's worth of buildings. I can't believe he missed all those wires.
 
Hard to imagine fuel mismanagement on a G1000 equipped Bonanza. Those gauges are loud, then louder as you enter the yellow and red arcs on the fuel gauges.

That was a nice low-energy landing though. Kudos to the pilot.
 
Gives me the heebee jeebies to fly a single engine over such a congested area.

Glad to hear no injuries.
 
GoFly said:
Some of you are about to get a ruler across the knuckles by a mad penguin
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Stout landing gear for sure! He put it down hard and did a great job.

The plane flew for around 2 hours and 45 minutes before he landed. A vid showed fuel slowly dropping from the tip tank in the car. I didn't see other fuel leaking anywhere. This plane should have the tip-to-main transfer system as opposed to the 5-position fuel selector. What tank was he on and fuel qty in the selected tank is the question.

Glad no one was seriously injured.
 
There is apparently a liveatc recording available, but I haven't looked for it. Not sure what frequency it'd be on, either local unicom or maybe an ATC sector. You can find it on utoob if you're willing to listen to whoever found it and wants to tell you about it.


BTW, since he missed all the wires, wouldn't that score zero for a carrier landing?
 
VASAviation has the radio calls on their website.
 
I’m not saying it was a fuel issue, but such is far & away the top reason for an engine quitting. Just cuz there’s fuel leaking after the accident doesn’t mean everything, easily could have the selector somewhere else, or even in between.

We’ve mentioned before, but another thing is pilots moving the selector while in the pattern. Some pilots like to do things verbatim, like when checking the gear down moving the fuel selector. The reason being is the checklist calls for ‘fuel selector on fullest tank’. Meanwhile the pilot is flying the pattern, looking for traffic & the rest.

Just random comments, no I really don’t care of the next moves the fuel selector every 5 minutes during a flight.
 
GLMS_NC said:
Stout landing gear for sure! He put it down hard and did a great job.

The plane flew for around 2 hours and 45 minutes before he landed.
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The VASAviation replay of radio communications from the accident aircraft indicate it was in the air for 4½ minutes between takeoff and the forced landing. Flight Aware says 5 minutes.
 
I am not as good as he was. He missed EVERY wire. I would have gone for the water...ahead....that would be my assurance of no FIRE.
Wow
 
bbchien said:
I am not as good as he was. He missed EVERY wire. I would have gone for the water...ahead....that would be my assurance of no FIRE.
Wow
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There's no doubt the pilot took a big risk by trying to return to the airport. It looks like there's nothing larger than a postage stamp between the spot he lost power and the runways.

Sometimes God favors the foolish. I've benefitted a couple of times.

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3393RP said:
The VASAviation replay of radio communications from the accident aircraft indicate it was in the air for 4½ minutes between takeoff and the forced landing. Flight Aware says 5 minutes.
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Look at previous flights and stops and how long he was on the ground at those stops. Several flights sequentially that day with small time in between stops.
 
GLMS_NC said:
Look at previous flights and stops and how long he was on the ground at those stops. Several flights sequentially that day with small time in between stops.
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I didn't catch the intent of your post, it was well founded.
 
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