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My plane crash video

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Jeff K

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I mentioned I would upload this sometime back and finally got around to it.

[ame]http://youtu.be/4ZqHHUsGXvc[/ame]


The perspective is it is nighttime and the security camera is looking over the top of Lawn and Garden. You can see the embankment that tore open my tip tank in the background and the shopping cart coral with a few shopping carts. At about the ~8 second mark is when I lost the engine. Yes, I actually saw the white car (I thought it was a white van). Both when the engine first cut when I was scanning for a field, and then when I committed (thankfully at the point it was turning left well out of the way).

I put some notations in the video but you can see when I pushed down hard and held it after my stall light went on (the landing light comes into the scene). Then the shopping cart coral catches my wheel in the flare (didn't see it) and then the shopping carts get scattered. I slide for a couple seconds (I lost the right main to the shopping cart coral) then the plane goes out of the scene and next you see a fireball when the right tip (dragging) hits the curb. The plane then goes over the embankment and slides across another parking lot until coming to rest at the edge of a small field.

Here is the 3D Google Earth Track. The endpoint is the red line towards the middle/right.

N4864S_track_3d.jpg
 
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