Emergency landing caught on tape from inside the cockpit
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A plane made an emergency landing on Havendale Boulevard in Winter Haven on Sunday morning. The entire ordeal -- from engine failure to heart-stopping landing -- was caught on tape from a camera in the cockpit.
Does very well imo
A plane made an emergency landing on Havendale Boulevard in Winter Haven on Sunday morning. The entire ordeal -- from engine failure to heart-stopping landing -- was caught on tape from a camera in the cockpit.
Does very well imo
Munter said:
How lucky there were no phone/other cables across that road!
Landing on a road must really be a last resort, there are often hard to see cables and wires. Hitting a car would also ruin your day.Looks like they were quite low when the engine stopped so perhaps they felt they didn't have any other option in a built up area like that?
Is that actually a drive through they pull into at the end?
Moose. said:
Great skills 
Any landing you can walk away from.....
"...and any landing where the aircraft can be used again is a great landing." Any landing you can walk away from.....I feel someone should really say "If you'd like to turn the ignition off now Mr Smith, I'm pleased to say you have passed the test". It isn't how you fall down that matters, but how you pick yourself up. He did seem to be coming in very fast and with some quite extreme control movements, but I guess what really matters is "I have an empty wide road under my wheels right now"
GTR One said:
Looked quite built up..think I'd be looking towards the water as next choice after a field...
Liam
Great landing & the pilots only 22 & got his licence at 18.Liam
"WINTER HAVEN | A pilot of a home-built airplane was able to land safely on Havendale Boulevard in Winter Haven on Sunday morning after experiencing engine failure.
"If there had been traffic on the road and I thought I was going to put people in danger, I would have land
The 22-year-old pilot, Kyle Davis, and his passenger, Joe Surowiec, were not injured in the landing and declined medical treatment, officials said.
The landing of the dual-seat SkyRanger airplane shortly after 10 a.m. was caught on video by Surowiec, a professional videographer, and was posted on YouTube.
The two landed just west of 29th Street Northwest and Davis guided the plane into a parking lot at Brooks Furniture, 2951 Havendale Blvd. N.W., said Polk County sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Wood
"By the grace of God, there wasn't a whole lot of traffic," Davis said. "If there had been traffic on the road and I thought I was going to put people in danger, I would have landed in the lake."
Deputies were called to the scene, but there wasn't much for them to do. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board cleared the incident, Wood said.
Two cameras on the plane captured the drama. One focused on the cockpit, taping their conversation, and the other was facing the plane's engine.
The two-minute video begins with Davis at the controls, piloting the plane over Winter Haven.
The engine quits and Davis and Surowiec quickly begin looking for places to land.
"Can we land in that field," Surowiec asks, pointing toward Davis' window.
"I don't think I can get to it," Davis responds.
A few seconds later, Davis is able to restart the plane. Already at a low altitude, the restart only lasts about 15 seconds.
Surowiec again asks about another nearby field, but it's too far.
Davis spots Havendale Boulevard and, in the midst of a few expletives, lines up for his landing.
"I'm going for the road," Davis says in the video.
Another engine restart lasts about six seconds, not enough to make much of a difference. Below them, Havendale approaches fast.
Passing businesses and the occasional car driving on the opposite side of the divided highway, Davis lands in the center lane and quickly steers the plane into the Brooks Furniture parking lot.
"About two minutes into the flight, the engine quit," Davis said Monday. "And I don't know why it quit. We had plenty of fuel."
The pair were flying the plane for a friend to the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In in Lakeland from the Winter Haven Municipal Airport, what is typically a 15-minute flight.
Davis has been a flight instructor for two years and received his pilot's license when he was 18, he said.
"I went through a normal engine-out procedure," he said.
Davis chose the best route to glide the plane in, spotted a place to land and then tried to restart the engine, he said.
"As a pilot and flight instructor, you are told to look for landing spots," Davis said. "Roads work great."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2CBx7x5GCI&fea...
Check out this bit of flying.
and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp478Tgm5gg&fea...
Check out this bit of flying.
and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp478Tgm5gg&fea...
Edited by rhinochopig on Saturday 16th May 14:53
thehawk said:
So no explanation for the engine failure and a professional videographer on board. Am I that jaded to be thinking it could be a stunt?
Looked authentic to me. The way the engine cut out after shorter and shorter intervals each time it was restarted might suggest a fuel supply problem.Gassing Station | Boats, Planes & Trains | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff