Small plane crashes into Florida home leaving 1 dead, 2 injured

[rk911]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/small-plane-crash-into-florida-home-leaves-1-dead-2-injured

RIP

 

[Tom-D]

best to not do engine out practice in a SeeBee. That old B9F Franklin may not like it.

This one had a 0-540 conversion.

 

[PaulS]

No fire, I wonder what the gas situation was? We need to stop crashing airplanes into houses, not good.

 

[GRG55]

best to not do engine out practice in a SeeBee. That old B9F Franklin may not like it.

This one had a 0-540 conversion.

The registration is a Twin Bee. They had a pair of Lycoming 360s with the props in a tractor configuration fitted to them.

 

[Tom-D]

The registration is a Twin Bee. They had a pair of Lycoming 360s with the props in a tractor configuration fitted to them.

oops,, yer right. SN 023

 

[Tantalum]

Given the nose down attitude and that they were practicing engine failure suggests a Vmc roll.. sucks

 

[Larry in TN]

Was that the only Twin Bee that the school operated?

 

[3393RP]

Thankfully there was no post-crash explosion and fire. That would have almost certainly have killed the home's occupants.

Without passing judgement or speculating, all I can say is that practicing engine out procedures is best done at at altitude. The absence of fire and aircraft fragmentation suggests that was not done in this instance.

 

[jsstevens]

Do you practice landing single engine as part of multi-training?

 

[dmspilot]

Do you practice landing single engine as part of multi-training?

Zero thrust, yes, engine actually shutdown, no.

 

[jsstevens]

Zero thrust, yes, engine actually shutdown, no.

So going up to practice “engine out” probably means various zero thrust exercises some at low level because they’re landing”