News report says he was taking off when it happened. Looks like it impacted the house right side up. Pilot is alive, as per the report. Ugly shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPA66Kz0tBY

Wow! A guy would be one lucky SOB to survive that accident.

Looks like he maybe stalled it and spun.

Bill

Looked like a left spin to me, early stages and still oscillating, gear was still down, engine sounded like it was producing power. What kind of flying boat was that?

What kind of flying boat was that?

Possibly a Lake?

I was scared of seeing a fire after that. Lucky.

Looked like a Lake to me too. That cat used up eight lives on that one. Glad he survived.

RT

Very lucky to have survived that, I bet the house absorbed a lot of energy.

Poor guy must have forgotten to file his flight plan.

Accident report says it was a "Freedom Master".

http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=1 ... DOM+MASTER

FAA registry says 2012 manufacture, IO-360 Lyc powered E-AB, built by the pilot.

From what I could dig up on these plans people said they are tail heavy with a small tail section area and required quite a bit of speed to keep flying. Can't believe all parties came out alive

flyingpile wrote:Poor guy must have forgotten to file his flight plan.

Too soon? But very funny. You had me grinning, would have been laughter-our-loud if I hadn't just seen that video.

Hard to watch. The only reason I can see for the pilot surviving is the house had to have eased the impact. That is one rare club to be a member of; ...spinning a plane into the ground and surviving.

I am an old and grumpy flight instructor when I watch an airplane clear the obstacle by way too much altitude with way too much pitch attitude and I wonder Why.