Daredevil Cessna pilot gets caught in thunderstorms and crashes! (Massive rescue effort)
Sep 3 2016
The pilot did not receive a weather briefing before beginning the cross-country flight. After takeoff, the pilot requested from air traffic control to fly below 500 ft above ground level along the ocean shoreline. The controller approved the request but advised of heavy precipitation (a thunderstorm) at the airplane's 12-o'clock position and 4 miles ahead. The controller further advised that the pilot should turn left and fly offshore 3 miles to avoid the thunderstorm. Although the pilot acknowledged the instructions, a review of radar and GPS data for the flight revealed that he continued on course. About 3 minutes later, the pilot reported the he was reversing direction, and no further communications were received from the pilot. Review of the airplane's GPS track overlaid on weather radar plots revealed that the airplane flew into an area of extreme intensity precipitation and then entered a rapid descent and impacted the ocean. Examination of the wreckage did not reveal any evidence of preimpact mechanical malfunctions. It is likely that the pilot lost control of the airplane when it encountered strong downdrafts and heavy rain associated with the thunderstorm.
Probable Cause: The pilot's inadequate preflight and in-flight weather planning, which resulted in continued flight into a thunderstorm and a subsequent loss of airplane control.
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. You can lead a pilot to safety, but you can’t make him think.
Wow!
Pretty snappy rhymin' there, Longfellow 🤗
As a simple private pilot who only flies VFR, I live by my motto “ you can fly and die or land and live “ when it comes to bad weather
Better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than in the air wishing you were on the ground
As an instrument rated pilot, there have been many times I refused to fly due to ice, thunderstorms, high winds. Most of the time I could go, but not always. This guy was licensed to fly, but he was not pilot.
@@EllsworthJohnson-ui1xm not many planes built which can win against Mother Nature
They completed their get-there-itis 101 course, and received their parting gift. “Private pilot and the pilot-rated passenger.” Two “pilots.” Zero flight plan. Zero preflight weather briefing. Probably zero flightmplanningnother than “let’s follow the coast down and the. turn right.” Ignored ATC. Flew 3 hours in the last 90 days. If you can’t afford to stay fit and prepared for safe flight, by flying at least a couple times a week or month, on average, then give up the relatively dangerous hobby, and only fly alone. You can’t be a “bare minimum” or “minimal effort” pilot. RIP, fun-lovers.
Great comments here. Neither pilot had an instrument rating, either. Pilot was 73, which falls right into the age range of stubbornness - "no one's telling me what to do, especially a female controller". Total jerk.
My good friend died in 2004 along with two of his passengers near Downing, Missouri when he flew into a nighttime thunderstorm. He was IFR rated but had no weather radar aboard. A Minnesota FAA controller had altered his original flight plan earlier further to the south in order to avoid that storm. But a K.C. controller later failed to warn him of changes of weather location just 11 minutes before they went down in a spin in a Beach G36 and exploded. He just allowed him to unknowingly fly into the Cat 4-5 storm ahead after a brief contact. A fourth person declined the week-end hunting trip to South Dakota citing his own safety concerns to my friend. While the FAA claimed no responsibility (which is true), it was a fact that the earlier controller had actually directed them directly into that storm. There may have been a quiet settlement.
Single pilot IFR at night in weather is a suicide mission. If there was a lawsuit, it should have been against the pilot by his innocent passengers' families. Beech A36 planes tend to be flown by over-confident know-it-alls. This was pilot-error plain and simple, and as pilot-in-command, he was responsible for not flying into a thunderstorm, not ATC.
@@lindaschad9734 I completely agree even though he was my friend. He was the pilot in command and should have known what he was doing. This was actually his third accident where significant damage to the airplane happened. And he was known as a hot-shot show-off in an airplane. I do know the widows sued the FAA for 6 million dollars but I do not know the results. The rumor is the FAA settled. Lawyer, medical doctor, head of Indiana drug enforcement. Big money at stake if it went to a verdict.
Never heard of an aircraft referred to as "wretched" before lol.
🙃🙃
Those were part of a limited production offered by Cessna. 😂
"Wretched Cessna"....timestamp? Who said that? Tower? another pilot?
@@sammytheface8821 I KNOW controllers preface the name "Cessna" with the word "wretched"😆
As the saying goes, there are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots. I can't imagine how the pilot thought flying directly into a thunderstorm was even remotely ok.
To throw caution to the wind like that, Tower radar advisories stated turn left to avoid the intense precipitation, pilot ignores and trucks on. This attitude is why so many GA pilots and passengers are dying for no good reason. Ego plays a large part of it. Discipline is not being emphasized enough. Learning how to get of trouble quicker than you go into it is essential.
VFR into IMC, not even once
A “ wretched Cessna “ . Wth
Says it’s a 172 and later says 6 people on board. Nice trick if you can do it
Well, it can be, not legally, but it can be. Most likely, our star media got it messed up yet again.
@@EllsworthJohnson-ui1xm yep on both
It also says “fatalities: 2, occupants: 2”
Probably cause is scud running due to ego
Great learning scenario on exactly what not to do. Just curious, with thousands of stock c172 photos available, why the thumbnail image of a Beechcraft Baron?
Fixed!
Thanks!
Went for a swim -
C 172 is 4 place. ELT? clueless met awareness. geebus h cx! much to learn from this & others at terrible cost & heroic effort by all parties to no avail... sad..
It is another repeated lesson that we pilots seem to seldom learn from, however, and repeat over and over from the accident statics kept for over 70 years now.
why do problem pilot voices all sound like that
Good question!
Because they don't know what they are doing, so they end up being hesitant and using unprofessional phraseology. Notice also that the big boys stayed on the ground until it was safe, i.e. Jet Blue.
who is this rook?
Nobody anymore, luckily for everyone else in the skies. Shame that the passenger trusted him.
RIP
@@RetreadPhoto The passenger was also a pilot, so he should have been more proactive.