Saw this at Big Creek today, anyone know what happened?

That's what happens when one exceeds the posted 10mph speed limit...

Looks like a bad time, hope they're alright.

Think that happened about a week or so ago . Rumor I heard was they overshot the runway……. ………….

Big Creek is tough for many pilots. “Long runway, so it must be easy…”

The other mountain-canyon risk factors are all high at that strip.

People crash there every year. I have seen two horrible crashes at BC.

If everyone walked away relatively unscathed, they got very lucky.

Over shot the landing, decided to go around, then decided the go around was not a good option, then hit a very nice side by side at the end, finally stopped on the road going into the lodge after hitting the Big Creek Lodge sign.

I watched as a Comanche very nearly went into the rocks at the south end of Big Creek one evening several years ago. The guy had never been into Big Creek before and didn't have any dual in canyon flying. He was instrument rated, though, and had plugged the coordinates for Big Creek into his GPS. (This was back when GPS in GA was new, and most airplanes weren't equipped.) He apparently didn't account for the waypoint being the midpoint of the runway, and approached at his regular flatland speed. There was a big cloud of dust as he locked up the mains and got nearly sideways, right up to within feet of the rocks and the line of parked cars at the south end by the lodge. The upslope saved him. I marveled that the gear didn't collapse.

What's crazy is that Big Creek and Johnson Creek are really long by backcountry standards. As long as they are, it's possible to abort and try another approach as long as you do it soon enough--and that's not when you're floating along in ground effect. At the risk of overgeneralizing, if you can't get down and stopped consistently and comfortably within 1,500' of the threshold with 50' tall trees, you have zero business going into any mountain strip in Idaho, and a lot of those strips require better performance/discipline than that.

robertc wrote:Over shot the landing, decided to go around, then decided the go around was not a good option, then hit a very nice side by side at the end, finally stopped on the road going into the lodge after hitting the Big Creek Lodge sign.

I kinda figured that busted up side by side was collateral damage. That really stinks.