Luckily, it looks like the pilot isn't hurt too badly..he can shake the paramedic's hand...but look how they treat the plane at the end...OUCH!! Whatever happened to taking it apart and rolling it on it's side gently????
JH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6V_tla21no

In the event that this sort of thing ever happens to one of you...DO NOT FLIP IT BACK OVER LIKE THAT. Your insurance company will have a fit. Leave it for them to handle properly, or they may very well deny coverage on any additional damage that was done during "recovery".

Agreed. Let the insurance company handle it.

Of course it's quite possible that the aircraft wasn't insured
(my neighbor usually gets the recovery call for any crashes in
Western Washington, and he didn't get a call for this accident, so
I'm guessing it wasn't insured....).

FWIW, with a flip-over, we usually rig and raise the aircraft and
leave it inverted, drain the fuel, remove the wings, set the fuselage
back down, re-rig it and then right the fuselage with a crane / boom
truck.

If you don't carry hull insurance, have the name/number in your
pocket of someone who has the right equipment to right a flipped
over aircraft without damaging it further.

Gives the ol gut a turn or to. The crunch of the metel as they bring it back into semi shape at the end. I'd be pssst.

Still seemed like not very serious injuries, and that's always good.

Bub

Well, let's see--there was a major buckle in the aft fuselage when the video started. That's why it buckled when they tried to right it. Both wings have major buckles in them as well, if you look closely.

I'll grant you that this is not the way to right an overturned airplane, but I seriously doubt that the airplane would not have been totaled by any insurance company as it sat, and even if righted properly.

Good lesson in any case, but this one looked like salvage from the git go.

MTV

I didn't click on the video, but it must be the 170 on it's back at Shady Acres in Spanaway? A friend of mine lives there, sez the airplane was insured. Pilot had a perceived lack of power on takeoff so aborted, and apparently got a little carried away with the brakes. Bummer, looked like a real nice one- Lycoming, c/s prop, etc. Fortunately no one was hurt to speak of. I noticed the buckled fuselage on the upside-down photo too.

Eric

It sure looked like a total to me before they hooked on.

A friend had a 185 dropping off parts in the rice field many years ago that ended up on its back.
The farmer dug a pit in front with the backhoe and when tipped back there was very little damage.

After it was righted, after a few pop rivets and aluminum scraps, Superdave would have flown it home.

Tim

I saw an air taxi mechanic and crew turn over a single engine Otter after it got upside down on a remote sand bar on the Sheenjek River. They cut a couple small trees for poles, rigged a soft sling for the fuselage, removed the wings, lifted the fuselage up, and rolled it inside the sling, put it on its gear, bolted the wings back on, a new prop, and flew it home.

It was in excellent shape, except for a few little divits. The rudder wasn't damaged in the overturn.

Salvage on these can be done well. As I said, though, this one looked pretty rough from the beginning, unless of course, they'd already made one attempt to right it before the video arrived......

MTV

Actually, I've wrecked more airplanes than I have cars. That is if you count all things that fly. I destroyed a hang glider off of Red Rock, hit a stop sign in a Foxbat (U/L) engine failure in a ballistic parachute equipped U/L (didn't deploy the chute) didn't get hurt but the plane sure did. Flipped an experimental at Spanish Springs and separated my sternum (ouch). Hit a motorhome at Pismo Beach in a parasail. Of coarse, none of these were my fault.