Crash near Brantford?
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Crash near Brantford?
News tells that someone has crashed:
https://www.cp24.com/news/one-person-de ... -1.5828811
Might be a 172RG?
https://www.cp24.com/news/one-person-de ... -1.5828811
Might be a 172RG?
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Re: Crash near Brantford?
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.
Re: Crash near Brantford?
Doesn’t look like the engine was running when it crashed.
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Re: Crash near Brantford?
Looks like C-GOFD, registered to brantford flying club. Very tragic, when things go wrong in GA they can compound VERY quickly.
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Very sad to hear. Spoke to him every week as they did the pipeline patrol through YXU, including the day of the accident.
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Ouch. Sure doesn't look like the prop was spinning.
"Carelessness and overconfidence are more dangerous than deliberately accepted risk." -Wilbur Wright
Re: Crash near Brantford?
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.
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.
Re: Crash near Brantford?
The airplane hit a tree on final approach, then entered a spin?
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Re: Crash near Brantford?
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.
I'm not sure what's more depressing: That everyone has a price, or how low the price always is.
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Perhaps not an aerodynamic stall spin, but more of a very rapid yaw. Not really enough time to develop even an incipient spin.
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I wonder why it hit the trees in the first place. Not enough damage on the prop to indicate it was turning?
"Carelessness and overconfidence are more dangerous than deliberately accepted risk." -Wilbur Wright
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And no post impact fire.
DId you hear the one about the jurisprudence fetishist? He got off on a technicality.
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Re: Crash near Brantford?
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.
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Re: Crash near Brantford?
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.