Three walk away after flipping plane on snow covered strip in Oregon.

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/janu ... _12508.php

Woopsie Daisy! THAT....is gonna leave a mark!
I like the sub-title; "The pilot didn't know the ground was snow covered."
What did he think all that white shit was?
Now I could see if it was some small strip in south Florida with white shit all over it, that could confuse a guy. But in Oregon it's definetly snow.

And I suppose insurance will cover this act of stupidity !!

Just gotta shake your head.

NO NO NO

Hang on boys, were gonna show Idaho Super Cub how to land short

By the look and length of the wheel marks they did'nt have time to say "Oh Shit" before flipping. A friend of mine flipped his Super Cub last month doing the same thing with the same result. I helped get it out of the meadow he went down in. Very short landing roll but he was unhurt. An expensive lesson to learn. There are ways to pack down the snow before doing your actual landing but not really worth the risk if a landing is not imperative.

Seriously!?!?

I would love to hear from the pilot just how he thought this one would end. Obviously he must have had visions of a soft touch down with wisps of snow magically swirling around the aircraft from the prop wash....what a rude reality check that must have been.

Glad everyone was ok, sad to see another crumpled plane.

And he did do an elegant job of landing on the mains first

Scout,
I noticed that too! We'll give him some points in the technical category. They're just all negated when we get to the finish!!

It's a good example of how much energy is absorbed in even a very short ground roll, and why it's important to keep flying the airplane into a crash and not stall/spin when the fan quits or the terrain outclimbs the aircraft.

lowflyin'G3 wrote:Scout,
I noticed that too! We'll give him some points in the technical category. They're just all negated when we get to the finish!!

Yup,

Kinda like those ice skaters they do everything just right up until the point they fall down. Score's go right in the toilet

I looks like, in the snow, on his right main wheel, that it gets airporne again. That in turn makes the left main dig in and the airplane is turned as it comes down. That must of been a pretty quick stop.

Bob

Looks like it was a rental. Insurance may cover the owner's loss. I wonder if the pilot has renters insurance. If not, he's about to learn how to spell "subrogation."


CAVU

Okay, so if it was your job to do it, how would you go about getting it back upright and out of there?

To trudge through 3 ft deep snow might require special equipment.

A front loader to clear a path?

Then maybe a backhoe with a some ropes or chain to flip it back over?

Or do you simply remove the wings and roll it?


How would they do it in the middle of Nowhere, AK?

I have done a couple recoveries like that. The best way to limit damage is almost always to flip it back over the same way it went over the first time. depending how much help you have it can be done by hand, take the cowel and prop off, dig a hole were the engine goes,put a board were the prop hub will hit, and a cushin under the wing tip and walk it over. They come down remarkibly jently, in deep snow like that it may have little enough damage to fly it out of there. (with a ferry permit of course)

He probably forgot he hadn't put the skis on.

Looks like a great place to ski into if he had skis. Or is it too soft and deep

I'd kinda like to know how he was planning on getting back out of there, especially with 3 on board. Bummer.

Nail here,

BAS shoulder harnesses??

Registered to Twin Oaks Airpark in Hillsboro, OR. I looked up their other aircraft and they have several Cessna 150s, 172s, 182, and even a J5 and a J3. Was this the same place that someone on here or SC.org told of the J3 being ground looped multiple times in the last couple years? There is even a Cessna C-38 airmaster that they own. Wonder if they rent that? Bummer all around.

By the way, 3 feet on the skis is perfect fun.