Quebec plane crash - 2 critical

[boeingboy]

https://globalnews.ca/news/6561992/queb ... ane-crash/

Small 2 seater "Cessna" type. 2 critical, apparently hit power lines.

[flybyyou]

Anyone knows the reg or school the airplane took off from?

[Braun]

It was a privately registered C150. Unfortunately both occupants passed away.

[TalkingPie]

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/ ... -perissent

The French newspapers covered it better than the English ones. Two Montreal pilots, 20 and 21 years old with about 300 hrs experience took off in the evening from Saint-Lazare airport in C-GYEV, a C150 owned by one of the pilots. They posted a Snapchat video online (shown in the link above) minutes before the crash where they were flying silly low over Highway 30 in Les Cedres, apparently not in any sort of distress. The article says that they went to the hangar that afternoon with the intention of changing the oil in the plane; they initially had no plans to fly that day. They were found unconscious at the scene of the crash after hitting power lines, and declared dead shortly after arrival at the hospital.

It looks to me like bad judgment: flew low in the dark, didn't see the power lines.

A very sad reminder that what we're doing is serious business.

[Babar350]

It reminds me another crash on a pa31, pilots were flying low and hit a cable in schefferville, both also died.

[Oldguystrtn2fly]

The thread on beech talk mentions that one of the pilots was from avcanada. I hope this isn’t the case. Awful news.

[Rooster69]

That Snapchat video pretty much sums up what happened. Damn!

Most of us have done stupid things in airplanes, especially when we were in our teens. Sometimes the luck runs out.

[tsgas]

That Snapchat video pretty much sums up what happened. Damn!

Most of us have done stupid things in airplanes, especially when we were in our teens. Sometimes the luck runs out.

" Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself". The boys were 20 and 21 years old and unfortunately will never be any older.

[TalkingPie]

One of the pilots was apparently AC Rouge cabin crew.

[boeingboy]

Report is out...
https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-repo ... q0023.html



Tom Cruise he wasn't.

Hell of a crash though. Sliding along the wire as it cut the aircraft in two, and then hitting the tower as well?
OUCH!

The 1st point of impact was the power line ground wire on the west side. This wire extends over the highway at a height no greater than 30 m (98 feet).

Impact marks on the tip of the aircraft’s left wing revealed that the initial impact occurred with a (white) marker installed on the ground wire. The dent in the wing observed between the wing strut and the cabin door led to the conclusion that following this 1st impact, the aircraft continued on its path, with the left wing sliding laterally along the ground wire and striking a 2nd (orange) marker, 75 m (246 feet) further.

As the aircraft continued to slide along the ground wire, the wire spliced the roof, which separated from the rest of the aircraft, and the aircraft broke into 2 parts:

a part with the 2 wings, which continued along the ground wire until it struck the hydro tower 75 m (246 feet) beyond the orange marker and crashed to the ground;
the rest of the aircraft (roofless fuselage), which was thrown more than 14 m (46 feet) further on the power line conductor on the east side, before striking the tower on this line.
When the roofless fuselage struck the hydro tower, it separated into 2 other parts:

the rear part of the fuselage and cabin, which struck the ground near the base of the hydro tower;
the engine (nose of the aircraft), which struck the ground a bit further, bounced, then came to a rest on the ground.

[tsgas]

Possible law suits coming.