CATASTROPHIC AIRCRAFT ENGINE FAILURE | Cockpit view | Deadstick landing in cornfield FLIGHT VLOG 33

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Professional seaplane pilot Antony Yen of "Straight and Level Seaplanes" in Eustis Florida, Departed from Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport (KJGG) on May 26th on a routine ferry flight to Connecticut. Just ten minutes after take off the experimental light sport flying boat suffered loss of fuel pressure at just over 600 feet above the ground. With dense trees all around, Mr. Yen turned on the secondary fuel pump, confirmed he had voltage (spark) and lost fuel pressure. After pitching the aircraft to best glide, and immediately locating the only potential field in gliding distance, he and his student were committed to landing.
Mr Yen is an experienced seaplane pilot and flight instructor, who specializes in light sport flying boats, and is extremely familiar with this airframe. He explained to us, in this specific airframe when you lose your engine, you lose airflow over the elevator and rudder. In order to make a safe landing you must increase the airspeed over the elevator, so he descended into the cornfield inorder to pick up airspeed and make a safe landing. Just moments before touchdown Mr. Yen shut off the ignition and fuel in hopes to minimize the chance of fire after landing.
Just 40 seconds after the engine quit producing thrust Mr Yen and his student were safely on the ground with no injuries to persons or property. When asked about the landing Mr. Yen stated “I spend a lot of time training my students for engine failures, and more importantly training them to always have a field in mind in case you lose an engine. As the landing goes it wasn’t my smoothest landing, but given the conditions it's good enough for me” FAA inspectors later confirmed the loss of fuel pressure was due to a cracked fuel rail and the incident was not due to pilot error.
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