Inside the cockpit during an emergency landing in a light plane

major pucker factor going on there

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/04/21/vo.fl.emergency.land.affl

Hodakaguy

what do you think was wrong with the plane? He was able to start it a few times, but was unable to keep it running. I find it funny the passenger was calm all the way to the ground untill the pilot came close to the telephone poll.

Where do I even start. They are very lucky as there are usally power lines across most city roads like the one they landed on. It looks like to me they ran out of fuel as the engine would fire up for a little while and die as it ran out. Lastly I fly high enough to leave myself some outs from what I could see there was not really any place to go other than the road ( The glide ratio on that airplane did not look that good).



I will say he did fly the plane to the gound and not let the airplane stall and his passenger did a great job calling out spots and keeping calm.

Old KTM gas!

Yamaha engine in that plane. Hear how it stalls out?

novocaine wrote:

Yamaha engine in that plane. Hear how it stalls out?