Crash near Brantford?

[PilotDAR]

News tells that someone has crashed:

https://www.cp24.com/news/one-person-de ... -1.5828811

Might be a 172RG?

[Heavy Rayn]

Yeah it’s an RG. They do pipeline or some sort of inspection. work in southern Ontario. Don’t know many of the pilots but they’d fly into YQG often back when I was there. Very sad.

[Inverted2]

Doesn’t look like the engine was running when it crashed.

[Bug_Stomper_01]

Looks like C-GOFD, registered to brantford flying club. Very tragic, when things go wrong in GA they can compound VERY quickly.

[ATC pilot guy]

Very sad to hear. Spoke to him every week as they did the pipeline patrol through YXU, including the day of the accident.

[JasonE]

Ouch. Sure doesn't look like the prop was spinning.

[anofly1]

both leading edges pretty flat...

[pelmet]

C-GOFD, a Cessna 172RG registered to the Brantford Flying Club, departed runway 29 at the
Brantford Airport (CYFD), Ontario, at 1709 for a local visual flight rules (VFR) flight. A licensed
private pilot, who had rented the aircraft, was the sole occupant. After a brief flight to the west, the
pilot returned and entered the circuit for runway 29. During final approach, the left wing of the
aircraft struck a tree. The aircraft yawed significantly to the left and entered a spin before crashing
in an adjacent field. The pilot was fatally injured. There was no post-crash fire, and the ELT had
been activated.

[PilotDAR]

The airplane hit a tree on final approach, then entered a spin?

[Squaretail]

The airplane hit a tree on final approach, then entered a spin?

I'm going to guess that upon impact with the tree that it looks like was big enough not to give bending the one wing as it did, the rotational force caused it to spin around in the short remaining distance to the ground.

[cncpc]

The airplane hit a tree on final approach, then entered a spin?

Perhaps not an aerodynamic stall spin, but more of a very rapid yaw. Not really enough time to develop even an incipient spin.

[JasonE]

I wonder why it hit the trees in the first place. Not enough damage on the prop to indicate it was turning?

[photofly]

And no post impact fire.

[rookiepilot]

I wonder why it hit the trees in the first place. Not enough damage on the prop to indicate it was turning?

Sigh…..

[digits_]

I'm surprised the pilot is deceased. The cockpit looks fairly well preserved. If it came down sideways with the wing touching down first, it should have absorbed quite a bit of energy.

[bodyflyer2]

I'm surprised the pilot is deceased. The cockpit looks fairly well preserved.

It is a bit hard to tell from the head-on photo... but it looks to me like the engine compartment may have been pushed well back towards the cockpit area.
The airplane's right wing has had a pretty hard smack on the leading edge and even the left one smacked the ground at some time in the accident sequence (not necessarily simultaneously, maybe rocking from one side to the other).
So it doesn't look like a nice skidding landing with plenty of distance to spread out the G forces, but more of nose down high-G impact.