Bonanza crash caught on video

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I'm voting for overweight.
After what appears to be a relativly long roll, you can see the plane
mushing
and stalling trying to climb.

I saw the video on a computer without sound, so I don't know if they said
how
many people were on board, but this plane, even with no flaps, should
climb out
just fine.



What about watching this type of video - is it useful for our awareness as
pilots? I tend to think it is, but that's just a personal opinion. Where I
grew
up, the State Police used to do an auto safety presentation every year to
students who were about to get their driving licenses. They would show
gory,
shocking films of accident scenes, hoping to impress the young, future
drivers.
They don't do that any more, but I don't know if this is because they feel
it
was not effective, or because they are concerned it is no longer socially
acceptable. . .

Probably because of political correctness.

I presume that the level of effectiveness was related to how well the causes
were known, and how well the decision tree was reconstructed. If they tried
to fill in too much data that they did not fully verify, or tried too hard
to make a point, then their credibility was lost. OTOH, if they avoided
reaching too far, or preaching too much, they could have substituted for a
lot of life experience. I don't know which they really did, but since they
should have had more than enough cases to choose from, I suspect a sort of
middle ground.

Peter