Emergency Landing Caught on Tape

[Prospect]

Nice to see good pilot decision making at work. (video is on top right)


http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local ... 5Fc5w.cspx


WINTER HAVEN, FL -- Two men in a home-built airplane survived a brush with death Sunday when they landed their plane on Havendale Boulevard.

22-year-old pilot Kyle Davis and passenger Joe Surowiec were flying the plane for a friend to the Lakeland Sun n' Fun Fly-In from Winter Haven when the engine failed.

The event was captured by two cameras, one in the cockpit and the other facing the engine.

When the engine failed, Davis quickly begins looking for a place to land. The two men look at a number of fields, but determine that they are unable to land in those locations.

Instead, the men decide to land in the road, where cars and businesses can be seen passing by.

Deputies were called to the scene, but had little to do since no there was no damage or injuries involved.

Both Davis and Surowiec denied on-scene medical attention.

[Dagwood]

Let the speculation begin...

Fuel Starvation?

[Nark]

If it was fuel it wasn't a lack of it. The engine was restarted a number of times. My theory is if ignition problems.

[broompusher]

The Flux Capacitor must have failed

[wxguy]

Wow! It was pretty amazing that he didn't hit any cars/signs/wires on that road!

[Aviatard]

I can't believe anyone would fall for this. It's clearly a model. At the 0:39 second mark you can see how they have edited in some real footage of highways and cars. Wake up, people.

[Hawkeye4077]

even parked on the ground when you try to stop an engine it sometimes take a few sec to stop. in this vid the prop stops like its an on and off switch. The force of the air would keep the prop spinning for some time. And I doubt they have a prop brake on a homebuild


hawk

[Nark]

I doubt deputy sherrifs respond to fake videos.

Although when I was a rent-a-cop I've responded to more retarded things.

[square]

Maybe they lost oil pressure and basically seized it up..

[Ghost Rider]

I'm calling bullsh t ..
Two wanna be utube heroes
Watch as they cycle the starter/mags in the center of the panel
The mixture is on the sidewall, so we dont see the pilot pulling it
Why do they keep starting it to make it to the perfect point to do an "emergency landing"?
Prolly a rotax engine, hence the quick prop stoppage
The monkey on the right has his lines ready .. "That field over there?"
And the biggest concern was hitting the wing on a post, after clapping?????, and after a life or death experience

IMHO
Total BS

[Strega]

even parked on the ground when you try to stop an engine it sometimes take a few sec to stop. in this vid the prop stops like its an on and off switch. The force of the air would keep the prop spinning for some time. And I doubt they have a prop brake on a homebuild


hawk

youve never flown behind a geared Rotax have you..

[beaverbob]

I believe these high compression engines with small props are unlikly to windmill. This is likely an accurate in air shut down, even if not an actual emergency.
Bob

[metal]

I'm calling bullsh t ..
Two wanna be utube heroes
Watch as they cycle the starter/mags in the center of the panel
The mixture is on the sidewall, so we dont see the pilot pulling it
Why do they keep starting it to make it to the perfect point to do an "emergency landing"?
Prolly a rotax engine, hence the quick prop stoppage
The monkey on the right has his lines ready .. "That field over there?"
And the biggest concern was hitting the wing on a post, after clapping?????, and after a life or death experience

IMHO
Total BS

I sure hope you forgot the green text.

[shannon]

If you look at the first copyright for the video its from Front Page Productions. They are an Audio/Video production company. I think anyone can figure it out from there.

[Chris]

Joe Surowiec, owner of Front Page Productions Inc.

http://www.frontpageproductions.com/aboutus.htm


I'm suspicious too.

[Puddle Jumper]

Theatrical BS, bad theatrical BS!

I mean really, how often do any of you guys out there fly around with two cameras strapped to your aircraft???

[linecrew]

BS or not, it sure was a hell of a lot better than that stupid video of the plane losing it's wing. That was so blatantly fake it was laughable but still managed to hook a LOT of people in.

[5400AirportRdSouth]

I'm leaning towards real on this one.

It seems possible IMHO, that the owner of a A/V Production Co. would / might have camera's strapped to their plane without malicious intent.

However, the first time I saw this, I thought they seemed to be going awfully fast on the roll-out down the street. Dude is clapping and it looks like they're still booking along at a pretty good clip. I think I'd still be holding tight to my skirt and puckering up in anticipation of a light post, median or parked car.

Then again, speed is relative, and I've never landed on a street before, so my speed relative to a laundromat or used car lot has never been tested in a practical setting.

Am kind of curious as to what / why the passenger seemed to be touching on the dash. At one point, I swear he initiated the second engine re-start.

If I'm lining up for a road, and my passenger starts monkeying around, I think it would be time for some CRM ( Choice - Remark - Making ). " I said don't touch you #%^#@#$ "

[AEROMONKEY]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbea ... .where.cnn

i think its real....watch this cnn story...they interview the pilots boss!

[Puddle Jumper]

Humm, when the engine initially "fails", the biggest a best landing site is just over his right shoulder!! Have a look on Google Earth and decide for yourself! I think the engine "failed" somewhere around 21st St NW and Leisure Drive.

I'm still thinking this is a publicity stunt that could have gone horribly wrong!

[Ghost Rider]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbea ... .where.cnn

i think its real....watch this cnn story...they interview the pilots boss!

Please tell me we aren't using the media to back up our opines of topic aviation

[FICU]

I'm calling bullsh t ..
Two wanna be utube heroes
Watch as they cycle the starter/mags in the center of the panel
The mixture is on the sidewall, so we dont see the pilot pulling it
Why do they keep starting it to make it to the perfect point to do an "emergency landing"?
Prolly a rotax engine, hence the quick prop stoppage
The monkey on the right has his lines ready .. "That field over there?"
And the biggest concern was hitting the wing on a post, after clapping?????, and after a life or death experience

IMHO
Total BS

I agree... he restarted the engine when he needed it and shut it off when his glide was looking good... cameras and voice recordings set up to capture it all... instant "hero" and 15 minutes of fame... people are fucked nowadays!

[Lost Lake]

Hey that pilot looks familiar. Wasn't he the dude that stole the plane from Confederation College and flew to St. Louis.

[GilletteNorth]

I call BS too.

Cameras perfectly positioned and both the inside and outside view is crystal clear.
The engine sounds like a RC model, and looked 'wrong' somehow.
'Only' available landing site was the road with NO cars even though opposite traffic has quite a few.
Landing was hard, no bounce, sudden pull over and stop, and "watch the wing" was perfection in acting.