plane crashed on takeoff attempt after emergency landing

"kontiki" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:

I feel sorry for the guy, but, man, there's really no excuse for what
he did.

True enough. At the very least he should have sought the opinion of
an experienced pilot familiar with the 210 as to the feasability
and safety of such a take off.

As a relatively low time pilot he probably should have paid an experienced
commercial pilot to fly it out to the nearest airport instead of
risking his families safety like that.

What indication is there that he's a low time pilot? It's possible, but
according to the FAA database he's had an instrument rating for at least ten
years.

--Gary

kontiki wrote:

I feel sorry for the guy, but, man, there's really no excuse for what
he did.

I don't feel sorry. That was gross incompetence, poor judgement and
downright stupidity. The idiot likely contributed to raising our
insurance premiums.

Ron Lee

kontiki wrote:

Toks Desalu wrote:


Comments?


A safe pilot would have walked down the takeoff route carefully
measuring the distance and the side to side clearances. Both the
emergency landing and the collision on takeoff were preventable.

My comment is only to seriously question the judgement of the pilot.


Right. He broke the Basic Rule of Flying: Don't Hit Anything.

Toks Desalu wrote:

http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4038264

I found this link in alt.binaries.multimedia.aviation. I thought you guys
should see this. After seeing this clip, I wonder why the pilot would begin
a takeoff rollout with all the vehicles on the side of road. The risk factor
would cut down enormously if you ask those vehicles to move away.

I saw something like this at a recent AOPA seminar. A pilot made a successful
off airport landing due to excessive air in the fuel tanks. They obtained fuel
from a nearby private field, put some in their C-150 and the two of them took
off. Because their off airport landing had attracted some attention, there was
video shot of the take off. The plane took off, but the roadway was far too
short for a C-150 on a summer day and two people aboard to clear the tree
obstacles at the end of the "runway." Neither was badly hurt but the airplane
was destroyed.