Bonanza Accidents in Low Visibility

[Music] the question today is is it legal to take off into this it's pretty low clouds kind of foggy i would say visibility is uh just over a quarter of a mile and that's the question can we take off into this kind of weather this is a visibility one we're going to look at two accidents one is that take off into into fog and low clouds and the other one is landing at night both bonanzas unfortunately but stick with the sunfly wire hey i'm scott purdue and today on flywire we're going to look at the legality i'll tell you right now it is illegal to take off into low clouds and to no visibility um that is a part 91 thing if you're flying 135 or 121 you're going to have ops limits that put restrictions on that but part 91 you can take off into virtual zero zero so that's a judgment call is that a good idea and we're going to talk a bit more about that and looking at the first accident is a v35 in vaselia california just recently the second accident we're going to look at was an s35 that attempted a landing at night just fairly soon after sunset but it was dark and on an unloaded runway so let's get to it the mishap pilot and three passengers flew into visalia california just after 1 pm on the 4th of december 2021 the weather was four miles visibility and haze and clear skies they had come apparently to see a basketball game and this was not the first trip the pipe missile pilot made of azalea easy for you to say he had done basically the same trip on the second of december the visibility had improved through the afternoon uh to about five miles but by the time three three mike taxied out visibility had fallen to about two and a half miles and 300 broken not stellar and no longer vfr uh and at the takeoff time of 1837 pacific time that's 6 37 to you guys the weather is in the process of going overcast at 300 with one and a half minutes of it one half miles visibility in light rain to complicate this runway three zero had a departure procedure a climbing left turn to two three zero to intercept the uh zelia 151 radial that picks the intersection at three thousand feet that's about 17 miles south at tulare california that's in the opposite direction of the destination which was sacramento oh and one more thing sunset was at 4 43 at the end and the end of nautical twilight at 6 13 so this takeoff was made in the dark that's the setup facing the positive 33 mike at the very least i would say that this takeoff would be very difficult to make safely in fact the phase of imc flying that scares me personally the most is take off into low clouds and poor visibility that transition of using your eyes for orientation and having to immediately transition to instruments is an exceedingly hard thing to do for this pilot low cloud poor visibility combined with night conditions made this take off essentially an imc departure from the get-go it is a perfect setup for spatial disorientation dan greider and his ga aqp training program has defined aviation accidents into what he calls buckets this one i believe would fall under the lawsuit control in flight imc after takeoff bucket it's not clear to me at this point that the pilot actually filed an ifr flight plan the weather early had been vfr and albeit marginal it was still vfr visalia is a non-towered airport so no one is recording the radio and the ntsb preliminary report is not out yet so i don't know if he was what is clear is that liftoff happened about 15 seconds after being in the takeoff roll at 37 seconds at 200 agl the airplane airplane began its left turn problem presumably for the obstacle departure procedure and it reached its maximum altitude of 350 feet at 14 seconds later heading 242 degrees from what adsb data we do have it appears that the airplane must have entered into a left spiral about three seconds later the left turn continued air speed gear began to build dramatically and in five seconds the heading at traverse 70 or 32 degrees and the airplane had descended 75 feet gaining over 20 knots that's pretty quick this is the last ads b hit before ground impact so what likely happened here remember the setup night night time take off into low clouds low visibility an obstacle departure procedure requiring a big 70 degree turn to the left pretty much right after takeoff i think it was likely that this was a combination of some autographic and some auto gyrol illusions that beset this pilot both of these go hand in hand with the inappropriate use of outside references the first one some of the graphic illusions is caused by linear acceleration that's acceleration for takeoff and when you do that you accelerate you get a sense of pitch up that is directly related to how fast you're accelerating your brain tells you that you're pitching up and you react by lowering the nose to counteract that perceived excess pitch a somewhat a gyral illusion occurs when you begin a turn your brain can interpret that role as less than required leading you to instinctively increase roll rate to counter that perception i got to get this turn going the insidious nature of these illusions led directly to a high-speed spiral lead directly to a high-speed spiral and that was what was exhibited in the crash of the v3533 mic in fact it sounds a whole lot like the crash of the helicopter flying kobe bryant just not too long ago so given that we understand the likely cause of this accident how do we make sure it doesn't happen to us well the first thing you have to do is be hyper aware of conditions of flight around you and the dangers lurking behind them what is your proficiency and your currency to successfully execute a zero zero take off an imc the second thing you have to do is be completely prepared prior to applying power you have everything set up navigation radios gps the autopilot everything immediately after the takeoff roll transitioned instruments and don't get off them get into your little happy place and fly instruments like you're out dependent on it because well it does be ready for the illusions and fight them with tenacity on the other hand maybe the first thing to do is postpone this flight to begin with for me at least it doesn't meet the saving the world criteria this isn't a mission that is absolutely necessary pray for these family for the families of these folks the other accident i want to look at today is an s35 bonanza that crashed south of billings montana on 26 september 2021 this tragedy involved a family of three the sun was flying their relatively new s35 bonanza from a family event in houston back to billings montana the crash occurred at the billings flying service runway which is about six miles south of building the billings logan airport which has an ils 63 mike tango is that billings flying service has a private 4700 foot runway just south of yellowstone river i could find no approaches or lights on this runway the accident occurred at 7 22 and sunset was 704. twilight ended at 7 33. so the weather was good no clouds light winds and great visibility but it was dark or getting darker and after the long flight from houston they were arriving that very close to the end of dusk i'm sure there might have been some pressure to visually get the airplane on the ground rather than diverting to billings logan witnesses described the approach as slightly high and fast then it floated down the runway before touchdown they also reported that the airplane landed hard one of them said it looked like a left wing stalled and then it hit hard on the left tire that observation was borne out by the tire marks left on the runway the the left first left main hitting first followed by the right main has it and landed in an angle across the runway like it's not lined with the runway it's going to head right off and at about 1100 feet down the runway the airplane did depart the surface runway surface to the left witnesses said power was added and the airplane accelerated through the field in a nose high attitude and it appeared to duck waddle staggering and then the left wing drug the ground about halfway through the go around attempt at that point it was done the airplane impacted the trees in a post-crash fire ensued the impact site was about 450 feet north of the runway and just shy of 2000 feet from the runway threshold ground scars in the field could be traced for the left wing tip as well as the main landing gear the tragedy was that the parents were killed in this crash and their son was left alive with burns of over on over 70 percent of his body and two siblings as well i i i guess i have to be frank with you what strikes me about this accident is the get home itis aspect of the flight the links in this accident chain were the long flight home landing late in the dust cycle or night trying to get back to where they started from presumably the airplane lived at 63 mike tango and their car was there and you know a divert to billing slogan would be inconvenient whatever it was from what whether it's from pressure of having time or only one attempt to formally want to attempt at that unloaded runway or for some other reason the visual approach in landing was rushed and that led to the attempt to force the airplane on the ground this rarely works out a good landing is all about controlled energy dissipation too much energy ends up with bad things happening almost as certainly as not having as much energy as you need to get to where you want to go a forced landing where you lose control and leave the runway is not a good start to a successful go around so much some damage is likely to occur regardless that might inhibit a safe landing later the point here is that adding power added energy to the situation it was unlikely to succeed in the first place have you ever heard of the old adage that any lining you can walk away from is success is a successful one i think it might apply here it's all about energy dissipation don't make your problem worse but it's also about judgment or the ability to say nope we're not gonna we're gonna divert instead to illustrate that i'm gonna tell you a story it's on me i was coming home from thanksgiving in las vegas with charlie you know i love flying instruments and charlie that g3x and gps combined with the gfc 500 autopilot is fantastic that being said i don't seek out opportunities to fly to minimums i don't have to do that anymore i was on the second leg home and had to make a large detour south to avoid to avoid heavy rain maybe some vertical stuff the car that cost time and fuel most of the time i was in and out of the clouds with a little bit of rain to deal with and i kept a close eye on the weather adsb weather in is a wonderful thing for the most part my the reporting stations near my destination about seven eight hundred feet which means that you could just get in on the non-precision approach there's no weather at my actual destination so i calculated that i would be able to shoot the approach go missed if i had two with about an hour and 20 minutes of fuel my backup plan was to divert to mineral wells with their ils well the approach went great i fluid coupled rnav yeah i cheated uh the airplane was perfect and it shot the approach really well and i was busy time sharing monitoring the approach looking for my mens and looking for the runway i began to see intermittent ground contact which is normally a good sign then that stopped and all i could see was cloud below me when i had my men's i must admit that for a brief second or two i contemplated continuing but then i realized that this was wishful thinking and plenty of folks have paid for that mistake with their lives oh by the way at this airport the men's are a little high precisely because of runways in a bowl and climbing out of that bowl and avoiding terrain and the power lines on the south side is a big question mark so i went missed approach i switched frequencies back to the arrival controller and i requested vectors to the ils 31 at mineral walls boom he was most helpful went direct and i concentrated on shooting the best approach i could well frankly it wasn't my best but i finally got it all wired up just prior to the da which is about 200 feet i literally broke out at that point and continued on the land it was late in the dust cycle so with even dimmer light from thickened clouds and rain i could see the environment i could see the runway and i went ahead and landed it wasn't fun it wasn't convenient there was no one at home to pick me up and i didn't know anybody in the local area either so it sure wasn't what i wanted to do but i landed with an hour's worth of fuel and i even beat the full dark in a way i was lucky i don't like flying single-engine airplanes at night anymore i don't like shooting approaches to men's for real and i sure don't lining like landing with less than an hour worth of fuel in the tank the airplane was undamaged and after refueling it was waiting for me when i got to the airport the next day to fly at home in a beautiful clear blue sky so it all worked out i guess what i'm saying here is that my nickel in the grass is not to let your personal priorities or desires get in the way of your good judgment live to fly and fight another day it is part of the adventure it's not all about convenience and don't underestimate the power of the dark side my prayers are with those who paid the price in these in these tragedies but for those of us who remain there were a lot of good lessons learned here in this video i hope you liked the video and if you did hit like and subscribe it looks like a bit like this here and i'd also like to thank my patreon supporters uh i appreciate your help and make it harder to do these videos without you if you'd like to support the channel i'll leave a link below for the flyware patreon page thanks for watching and i'll see you next time on flatware

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Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 21 2021