flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
Not great, but first video I've seen of it.
apologies if dupe
Interesting. He does pitch up as if to go around, and apparently got behind the power curve before the engines spooled up or something.
Not great, but first video I've seen of it.
apologies if dupe
Looking again at the very beginning of the video sequence, it sure looks like things were definitely not going to end well when he's rolling onto his final leg very low and past the threshold.
I heard the poor guy lost an eye in the accident.
A good point... they did in fact tell him to fly that base. But it just didn't look right, even with a small jet and more than 4000' remaining. He was already quite low coming out of that base leg, as if he was concerned about having enough runway to roll out on and wanted to get it down quickly. Probably had very little power at that point, too, for the same reason."make your base abeam the tower" so the base/touchdown is still the same. Touchdown on the pink dot leaves you with 4750' LDA which should still be plenty for the Premier.
He was already quite low coming out of that base leg, as if he was concerned about having enough runway to roll out on and wanted to get it down quickly.
He had quite a bit of altitude to make that go-around happen. I wonder at what point he truly decided to go around and applied full thrust versus him just pitching up and trying to stay level while he "thinks". The video makes me think he didn't apply full thrust at the time he pitched up. The engines will take awhile to spool but there was no reason a go around shouldn't have been possible there.