Anatomy of a plane crash
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- This is a visual re-creation of recent fatal plane crash in Los Angeles. The purpose is to try and get a better understanding of what went wrong and to try to prevent it from happening in the future.
The accident plane, N777WP, was a Mooney M20K that departed from North Bend, Oregon (KOTH) enroute to Van Nuys, California (KVNY) on March 13, 2020. The plane crashed while on the ILS 16R instrument approach into Van Nuys.
This visualization is my interpretation of the publicly available data and reconstructed in Google Earth Studio. It is important to note that this should not be taken as factual. The NTSB will release an accident report in about a year.
I can watch and be clinical about the situation until I hear the distress in the pilots voice and see the trouble he's in. Tough to watch, but we can always learn if we are willing to see our own imperfections. Thanks for putting this together. Be safe!
Russ Perkins I will admit it was hard to make. I actually edited out his very last transmission at the end, as it had no relevance to the video. Hopefully we can all gain some knowledge and apply it in our own flying.
that was difficult to watch, so many tragedies as a result of disorientation in IMC...heart goes out to all
Agree. Aviation can be a cruel business sometimes.
Not for me I find the science behind crashes interesting , the investigations the causes etc I love watching, air crash investigation, I'm an aviation buff too
Thank you for providing clear data in a respectful presentation.
Thank you Jason. Means alot coming from you. Hope you guys are hangin' tough at TRACON these days!
@@Wolficorntv traffic is down so we're able to reduce operations and spread out a bit.
Holy crap... Lost situational awareness, big time. Looks like a stall spin in IMC. DAMN!
Working on my IR out of KSBA right now. Just flew an IFR lesson and this approach into KVNY a few days ago. Thank you for sharing.
Nice Recreation! ... Really shows you how much you have to respect IMC even with autopilots and gadgetry!!
That sure is hard to listen to, very unfortunate. Disorientation in IMC is frightening. I fly VFR and am probably still alive because of informative videos such as this. Thank-you, excellent job
Glad you found it useful.
This is heartbreaking and hard to watch, Rest In Peace
The call letters WP Aka Whiskey Papa are these assigned before flight or affixed to unique aircraft?
Honestly didn't know about this one until now, and I drive through the Newhall Pass weekly. Thanks for sharing this, as a student pilot this really emphasizes the need for situational awareness in any condition.
Jimmycocoapop yeah I think it got drowned out by all the corona-related news. Keep up the flying! Where are you training? Regardless of what they determine caused this, we can all walk away with lessons learned.
@@Wolficorntv Half way through online ground school, on the waiting list for flight school at Barnes Aviation at KWJF. I live up in the AV.
Jimmycocoapop nice! I’ve taxied my plane by Barnes before. I got my avionics done next door at High Desert Aviation. Good luck!
@@Wolficorntv Thank you! Keep up the great vids! And I saw that video recently, found your channel through JustPlaneSilly, great group you're connected to! Fly safe, stay safe! Cheers!
This is one of the amazing things about virtual reality (VR) and the Google Earth's VR version. One can get a clear understanding of things that happen and in full 3D. I have flown the "Kobe" flight and the "Sully" flight in VR. The Sully flight is most interesting because you can quickly see when in fully immersive 3D why he did what he did. Teterboro was clearly too much of a risk and he could get no instant cooperation out of LaGuardia. They were conducting a "group think" and he needed a decision maker. The Kobe flight is a puzzler however. There is an exit left he may have mistaken in the fog for a continuation of the freeway through the pass which actually opens up right there. Again, why do not all these pilots just use their autopilot ? Even JFK Jr.
Wolfi, I've been in 777WP and can confirm it had an autopilot - just as you assumed.
Thx for the PIREP
My brother was the passenger in this accident. It’s still so heartbreaking how he was only 5 minutes away from landing and to avoid all of this.
Sylvia, first let me offer condolences. It can't be easy watching this but perhaps it can provide some insight to questions you may have had. I made this video to help me and other pilots learn from this accident. It's also important to remember that I am using data that was available to me at the time. There could certainly be inaccuracies from what the NTSB determines.
Informative review and perspective. After watching I was frustrated knowing that this man was so close to his destination and equipped with the required instruments and came up short. I would like to think I'd be able to do it differently but fortunately/unfortunately I'm not sure the outcome would have been different. My first thought is, let autopilot get you close enough, pass the mountain region. The open mic. definitely could have been a distraction or even loss of two way communication assisting with direction, and current positioning. My heart goes out to the family's involved, and hopefully we've all taken something away from this.
It's just sad all around and of course I always feel a closer connection to these things when they occur in the area I fly regularly. We certainly don't have enough info to know why it happened, but my personal takeaway is a reminder to myself of back to the basics....aviate, navigate then communicate. Also, be fully knowledgeable of my autopilot in all phases of flight. Again...don't know if that had anything to do with it...just a reminder for myself.
What exactly failed causing him to lose airspeed and why couldn’t he have regained it? I’m just a random who happened to come by this video, and have no insight on how to fly a plane as well as most terms mentioned in the video... RIP to those lost
All this Corona business, I never heard of this crash.
Yeah. Everything else has gotten buried recently.
I'm thinking he was pulling some G's at 5:30 when he said uuugh. Overall, it's like he started to pull the nose up, but forgot to push the throttle in.
Chuck Cox perhaps. My interpretation was the situation was getting out of control and he knew it. Either way...a sad sad situation. Fly safe!
This was tough to watch, but that real time terrain view does make it a potential learning experience. I wonder - just speculating - that he was kind of familiar with the terrain. If so, he knew he was flying through a pass, and understood the consequences of being too far north. So when he went off track, he potentially has two concerns, one being staying on the IFR track, the other avoiding the mountains. I know those are really the same thing, but they could seem a little bit different. Trying to re-intercept the approach, while trying to mentally avoid the mountains that you can't see, would seems like a big stress add.
Either way, this could be a lesson on when and how to abort from an approach. I don't think I've ever seen a video on that.
another case of loss of control due to loss of situational awareness in IMC..... sad... didn't hear about this one till now.....
we always can be improving our skills, regardless of that being a cause.
@@Wolficorntv I agree ....
Blancolirio brought me here! A sobering recreation... though in IMC surrounded by mountains, why on earth did he not stay on autopilot until fully established on the ILS glide path and down to nearly minimums?
OK, I just watched it again. You quite rightly assume he was autopilot equipped from the altitude track, but that's not a given. I'd query that. I see no explanation as to his meandering left and right around the outer marker, unless he was hand flying. All will be revealed...
I knew the pilot very well; he was an excellent pilot. The last thing I heard him say sounded more like a cry out. I miss him very much.
Sorry for your loss Susan. I hope my video provided a useful perspective, while maintaining respect for all involved.
@@Wolficorntv I honestly believe it was instrument failure. Many thanks
Any chance of fuel starvation? that's a pretty long leg for that mooney...
There's always a chance. That said, that plane fully fueled could make that distance no problem.
So I'm guessing they just stalled it out and couldn't recover. My condolences to the families of the lost souls.
Flying under those conditions is a recipe for disaster.
westfield90 the conditions were fine if you’re IFR proficient, your instruments work and you know how to use them. I don’t know if that had anything to do with this, but the conditions were very flyable.
Wolficorn I see. Thank you for the explanation.
Solid info, no need for NTSB report.
Another twin kills a pilot in IIMC. Was this a certification flight? Transfer?
not a twin...