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Cessna 170 Emergency Landing Video

  • 29-11-2012 9:56am
    #1
    pclancy
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    You might have seen this but I've only just come across it. I've been thinking a lot about forced landings recently in preperation for some flying and came across this guy's old video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTiGU5TiYCE


    Discuss.


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  • #2
    Klunk001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭Klunk001


    A good result I would think, considering they were flying over what I would class hostile terrain . Not being a plank driver :-) looked like text book stuff to me. By the sounds of the audio all very relaxed indeed inside the aircraft while dealing with what was a major emergency. Found a spot and put it on.

    Did the right thing, stayed with aircraft, had plenty of the right equipment, shelter, fire, SOS signal, flares.

    End result all found safe and well, Happy, happy.


  • #3
    deandean
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    The crucial bit there was a good landing I guess!

    Lovely plane the 170, I don't recall noticing the flared down winglets before.

    I wonder what happened the plane, it could probably only have been flown out of there.

    [edit] google is great:
    "As for what happened to the airplane, before leaving on the chopper I walked off 900' usable feet of gravel bar. A friend who is also an excellent bush pilot and an A&P flew in a borrowed engine in his Cessna 206U, landing next to my airplane. Using a spruce-legged tripod made from local trees, he swapped out engines right there on the gravel bar. Only took him four hours. We flew my airplane to the A & P's hangar where he put together a "new" engine for me. I sold the airplane in 1992 and I believe it's still in Alaska."


  • #4
    jackofalltrades
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    Would love to see the unedited version of this, showing the full landing.


  • #5
    pclancy
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    He said in the comments that the guy stopped filming just after the pilot told him "this is going to be rough". Probably was more focused on the two kids in the back then filming the landing :)


  • #6
    cuterob
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZvSmsIE_Ls

    have you seen this one?


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  • #7
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    cuterob wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZvSmsIE_Ls

    have you seen this one?

    :eek::eek: thought he was going to lose it at the last minute there. Fair play!


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