P-51 Engine Out, Off-Airport Landing - clip

[Music] here you're coming through on your last path literally your last path to go into the overhead yep and and do what we call the breakout and land yes so you're you were telling me you were you in the middle of an echelon move so which is for the for the sake of our audience as you're in the turn and you're going to the breakout the lead has moved you to the other side of the formation right yeah so you're moving from the left side you're in this move to the right side of the formation in a number three position and then well obviously there's a certain amount of throttle movement to stabilize in the formation and as I was pulling up next to the number two airplane the engine quit and then it started again so I think like Moloch was have been something so I started to move back up again and this one again they quit again this time a lot longer and I realized pretty much at that point hey you could have to deal with this so I'm now kind of regressing to patterns of behavior which I've been green over over years yeah so I'm getting airplay in the right speed I crank the canopy open because obviously they wanna can't be shutting me home and put the airplane down and I'm thinking okay this is not my best day but I'm actually in a good position I'm an in low key position for a good field and then the engine started [Music] this is not an engine failure this is a intermittent partial engine family and I think you know we talked about this this is probably much more dangerous than a straight engine quitting yeah I was maybe four or five hundred feet 150 miles now the engine running came intermittently and I've got maybe I've gotta go sew down the second half of the downwind leg I've got a turn based base to final but I'm thinking here might be able to make this and then I made another mistake at that point the tire could see they'd heard my call I was kind of an approaching base leg and they start to shout at me your gears knock down your gears not down so I put the gear down yeah at which point the engine started to run down again so I've got drag and I've got it I've got a hundred eighty degrees of turn to go and that was a dumb thing to do clearly it's gonna be an off fair people there for landing pulled the gear up dumped over at remaining flat rolled the wings level and continued to flight this is the key thing Richard fly the airplane as far into the crash as you can and that's gonna in the back of my head trees down and safe it was a nice thought unfortunately antennas under the wing and that was snapped off their back so they didn't hear it yeah but no I'm thinking of my buddies yeah that's right yeah it was a good it was a good thing to think about you wrote a great article mark that you shared with me on it and in that you sort of summarized the things that you are happy with of how you did and the things that you would do differently and the first thing is I just appreciated that that's the way you think then you come out of this thing and and you were able to save yourself and cause no damage to any other people the airplane will be fixed and yet and just talking through you I can still three see you thinking through the next time this happens this is what I would do differently which to me is such an important piece of our culture and aviation that's how we get safer and safer so we're not afraid to put it on the table and say these were the facts this is what I would do differently if I can do it again you

Channel: Air Safety Institute

Views: 869,260

Keywords: ASI, air, safety, institute, aopa, engine, failure, out, engine out, p51, p-51, mustang, emergency, off, off-airport, airport, airplane, plane, crash, accident, landing, aircraft, Mark, Levy, Mark Levy, warbird, formation, flying, pilot, flight, airshow, gopro, cockpit, helmet, Richard, McSpadden, canopy, mayday, partial, Duxford, England, UK

Id: jnODYKx5ics

Length: 4min 11sec (251 seconds)

Published: Thu May 17 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/GroundPoint8]

2:25 is the difference between a good pilot and a bad pilot. This type of situation happens to hundreds of pilots per year. Engine failure, finding a landing spot, then realizing they aren't quite going to make the spot like they hoped. The decision you make at that moment decides whether you live or die, and a lot of those pilots die. Too many pilots wouldn't give up the turn. They would continue that turn, tightening it up as they overshoot, losing energy, stalling it in the turn so it rolls over, and then crashing upside down killing themselves and anyone else in the plane.

This guy does exactly what you need to do. Acknowledge that you aren't going to make your spot, stop trying to stretch it, put it down NOW while you still have energy and can control the plane INTO the crash. Don't try and squeeze out another 10 seconds of flight. Those 10 seconds will bleed all your energy until you stall it and it ends up rolling over into a completely uncontrolled crash. A much worse crash that you aren't going to survive. You can't afford to run out of energy before getting it on the ground. You need to acknowledge the situation and put it down right now. No later.

It is the #1 rule of my safety briefing before takeoff to make sure my co-pilot or front riding passenger understands that if we lose the engine at any point where it's even debatable whether or not we can turn back to the airport, we are landing off field, straight ahead. End of story. You don't have time to bounce the idea around in your head, or cross your fingers and try to stretch the glide.

But in those critical seconds so many pilots try to get just another 500 feet out of the plane when there's simply not 500 feet worth of energy left and they die because of it.

This guy is a great example to learn from.

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Aviate, navigate, communicate. He did all three and walked away from the plane.

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[u/Budpets]

After watching Jeremy's farm all I can think about is how much that farmer's going to lose in wheat profits.

Probably not much but a pain to sift the bits of plane and fuel out of.

[u/FIuffyAlpaca]

I was at the airshow when this happened. Miss Velma broke off from the others Mustangs and everyone could tell something was wrong. It then disappeared from the public's view, behind the hangar. Everyone was super anxious as no one could tell if the pilot was alright or not. It was a relief when the announcer said the pilot was alright but it obviously still put a damper on the whole show. Here's a picture I took of the P-51 the day after, when it was being towed back to the airfield.

[u/madmannh]

Wow. Nice landing!!!

[u/W0wbagger-]

The full interview and analysis is really worth a watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpqvPujZgM&t=0s