Cessna 182 Floatplane Crash in Kenora

[CLguy]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2013 ... 89966.html

[toelessjoe]

Saaaaaaaaayyyyyy.....I know that guy....

[North Shore]

Glad to hear that everyone is OK after this; too often, they are not..

This makes me laugh, though:

"God and experience were on our side for sure," Funk said Saturday.

So, if god was on your side, why did he make/allow the engine (to) quit?

[GyvAir]

"I purposely went in on one side to take the impact on one wing and spin in so all the force wasn't on the engine and firewall which is where our legs and bodies would be."

Is this a common idea of how to manage a forced landing into trees? I only recall hearing of the "stall it in" notion and the "whatever you do, don't stall it in, just fly it into the tree tops" approach. I'm not sure what sort of maneuver he means by "went in on one side... ... and spin in". Intentional stall and spin?

If he was truly aiming to make the wing into a sacrificial crush zone, he did a fine job of it!:

[PilotDAR]

So, if god was on your side, why did he make/allow the engine (to) quit?

It's a different god for engines....

[pdw]

So, if god was on your side, why did he make/allow the engine (to) quit?

We'll have to wait and see what kind of a man-made problem there was with the man-made engine I guess ... when the TSB figures that out.

[Heliian]

retired airline pilot with all of 5000 hrs?

god on his side?

and he purposely put the wing in first?

When you are crashing, it doesn't really matter what goes in first, you get lucky or you cartwheel head first into a tree.

[floatpilot]

So, if god was on your side, why did he make/allow the engine (to) quit?

We'll have to wait and see what kind of a man-made problem there was with the man-made engine I guess ... when the TSB figures that out.

The maintance was done at EDITED, theres the first man made problem!

[bmc]

That will buff right out.

[J31]

The maintance was done at EDITED, theres the first man made problem!

Ouch That is nasty

[Doc]

It was very nasty. Want to get your ass sued? Good way to make that happen.

[pdw]

An 'act of God' event ... would that include water in the tanks (idea based on recent discussion) seeing that it had rained during the week prior to the flight ?

The article is fairly informative with regards to noise the engine made, and carb-heat / fuel being checked 'on' during the forced approach ....

25C and 61% around the time given for this accident.

One point discussed recently was:
New fuel tank water (ie vent-ingested) may not rightaway travel to a tank's sampling sump when a plane is parked (at the dock) in the cooling rain that then draws in through a cap-vent or enters via some other moisture source.

Not saying it did, but in such case the agitation produced by that next water take-off into early climb (which is about where the engine quits here) may fill the sampling cavity rather quickly if enough raindrops got drawn in as the tanks cooled down from 32C in the downpour (previous temp/rain Kenora ... week of "Aug-30/5pm 2013").

[PilotDAR]

An airworthy Cessna fuel system can be contaminated by water pumped in from a contaminated source, or by condensation developing in a partly full tank. Rain, dew or splash water will not enter an airworthy cap or vent, and get to the tank.

[CpnCrunch]

C-GKEI, a 1957 Cessna 182A. It will have bladders (unless he changed them), and they can trap water.