Oops at Gastons

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Any landing you can walk away from.........

He "lost lift" do they think it was wind shear or something?
 
DavidWhite said:
Any landing you can walk away from.........

He "lost lift" do they think it was wind shear or something?
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Skip going back for seconds at breakfast when you have three people in a PA-28 at Gastons...
 
That's a 'crash'???

Thing is still sitting upright on all three landing gear.
 
Fearless Tower said:
That's a 'crash'???

Thing is still sitting upright on all three landing gear.
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On what's left of the main and left, for sure... looks like he left part of the right gear a couple hundred feet back (and a plowed furrow). Glad (very glad) they all walked away safe!
 
much better outcome than when the last guy did that
 
Imagine how overloaded it must have been. It's not like it was a hot day.
 
I think the sink occurred when he unpuckered after clearing the fence.
DavidWhite said:
Any landing you can walk away from.........

He "lost lift" do they think it was wind shear or something?
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Or if his engine was working, or it he had fuel in the tank he had selected, etc etc.
 
No flaps for takeoff from Gastons grass with two passengers? It's like playing Russian roulette, a little bit of tailwind it is all it takes for that nasty sinking feeling between the trees at the end of the runway.
 
mikea said:
*cough* It depends on which PA-28 it is. As in, what number comes after the PA-28- part? :rolleyes:
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Flightaware shows it as a Cherokee 180. Unless it was three heavy weights and full fuel, it should have been okay for weight. Will be interesting to hear about the final report.
 
Having spent a disproportionate amount of my life hanging out at grass airports (or grass being used for takeoff and landing whether or not it was designated as a runway) it's interesting to watch the differences in pilot behavior and technique.

The most-disturbing tendencies are the efforts to make things happen before the airplane is ready, during both takeoffs and landings. "Pulling green" before the airplane is ready to fly and then mushing along nose-high in ground effect is quite common at Gastons, Cedar Mills and numerous other spots where my chair is often parked under the wing.

As DK Royal said about throwing the football, "when they do that, three things can happen; two of them are bad."
 
Pa28-140 said:
Flightaware shows it as a Cherokee 180. Unless it was three heavy weights and full fuel, it should have been okay for weight. Will be interesting to hear about the final report.
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It was a PA-28-180 from the Texarkana Flying Club.
 
I've probably done a hundred takeoffs and landings at Gastons in a PA-28-180. It is by no means a "short field" for the aircraft.

Either something was seriously wrong with the power plant, the surface, or the pilot did something incredibly wrong.
 
As many that have flown into our annual link ups know, one can easily fly between the trees at the departure end, over the farmer's field after the trees and even down the river for awhile if need be to accelerate without climbing. I'm just amazed that folks pull back and try to force the plane over the trees when it's not ready to fly. I don't know what happened here, but most of these accidents are due to the person at the controls.

Best,

Dave
 
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