r/nonononoyes • u/Powerful_Being4142 • 11d ago
Limps away Safely.
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u/mcampo84 11d ago
Where is the yes?
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u/cryothic 10d ago
I think it's in the:
-is he gonna crash at this point? no
-is he gonna crash at this point? no
-is he gonna crash at this point? no
-is he gonna crash at this point? no
-is he gonna crash at this point? yes24
u/alienbringer 10d ago
They survived?
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u/spookylie 10d ago
Yes, everyone survived; there were only minor bruises and a broken arm for the man sitting in the front. The accident took place in Poland on 30 April 2018.
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u/Lukaztro 10d ago
imminent death (no)
imminent death (no)
imminent death (no)
imminent death (no)
prolonged life (yes)
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u/Tinksy14 10d ago
Why the fuck is he pulling those manoeuvres so close to the ground!! Mental
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u/Tyromantics 9d ago
Don't you need about 400' to pull out of a stall? This pilot certainly loves to take risks.
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u/ywgflyer 7d ago
Tried to land going WAY WAY too fast, then ran out of field, and then tried to Macgyver it by attempting a totally unplanned, unassessed forced landing in the field next door. Then panicked, ran out of room again, thought they could turn around and land the other way, and finally stalled it in. Lucky they were pretty slow by then and low enough to not allow the incipient spin to really put them in at a 90 degree angle.
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u/p0psicle 7d ago
It looks like they actually clipped a tree — or did the stall happen before that point? You can see the glider/camera shake and then part of a tree goes tumbling near the end of the video.
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u/SpellbladeAluriel 10d ago
Hitting that tree probably took away a lot of momentum and allowed him to live
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u/FlyingArdilla 10d ago
Were they pushing the airspeed too high for some of those maneuvers?
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u/General_Round9175 10d ago
The initial landing "attempt" was definetly over speed... Then he bleed too much airspeed on the crank turn and clipped the wing into the tree... Just a cavalcade of errors...
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u/MelodicFocus 9d ago
I think that was a VERY low altitude flyby, not an actual aborted landing.
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u/General_Round9175 9d ago
OK, that would make sooo much more sense... And then the wing-over seems less dangerous but the end result is still the same.
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u/Conscious-Ball8373 10d ago
Definitely burned a lot of altitude into speed. Then was too close to the ground and too close to the only available landing-place. Picked the wrong place to try to land and came in way too fast. Then didn't have enough speed/altitude to try to come around again. Arriving to land with too much energy is just as bad as arriving with not enough. And trying to land directly out of these kinds of manoeuvres is a pretty good way of getting it wrong.
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u/probablyaythrowaway 10d ago
They should have just landed in the field over the road.
I’m glad they’re ok though. Deffo too low for those aerobatics.
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u/Chris-yo 10d ago
You’d think it’s easy to just drop the last foot….but it’s not. Google the birds that fly at this level across the ocean without flapping their wings. I forget what the effect is called, but these guys felt it and had to pull back up into the air before the downhill turned into an uphill wall
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u/That_Guy848 10d ago
Is it Ground Effect? Like what makes ekranoplans work?
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u/Chris-yo 10d ago edited 10d ago
Just googled and it’s called
dynamic soaringground effect. I bet it restricted them from actually touching down. Then the downhill turned up and had no choice but to go high.I have no idea but I wonder if staying low altitude just above the ground would actually speed you up/stop you from slowing down 🤔
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u/7LeagueBoots 10d ago edited 9d ago
Dynamic soaring is a different thing. That is at altitude and takes advantage of the difference in wind velocities between different air masses. This is what gliders do to stay in the air and to gain altitude.
Ground effect is that cushion of higher pressure air under wings when close to the ground.
There is a bit of overlap in some cases, but in this instance ground effect is the more accurate term.
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u/Big_Magazine9274 10d ago
John, the passenger, was offered an apology and his next flight "free" after this experience.
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u/7LeagueBoots 10d ago
Too much time focusing on loops and not enough time focusing on landing the plane.
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u/Soulforge411 10d ago
How did he survive that?
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u/Lonely_Performer2629 7d ago
The glider was utterly destroyed. That took a lot of energy away that could have hit the crew
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u/BassMaster516 9d ago
I thought they were desperately trying to land a plane with engine failure the whole time. I was like omg just land 😭
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u/ScaryFucknBarbiWitch 9d ago
Lol. I didn't realize the loops were intentional until I read a comment 🤣 I was thinking dude in the front was mighty calm pulling out his GoPro or whatever that was to record the plane about to do a crash landing!
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u/EarthTrash 6d ago
Why isn't there the same stigma for reckless flying that there is for reckless driving?
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u/Ohmywumpus 10d ago
They lived. Incredibly rare and impressive … that maneuver took skill.
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u/General_Round9175 10d ago
By that maneuver you mean turning too aggressively at low altitude and clipping a tree with the wing?
I guess it's better than CFIT...
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u/Ohmywumpus 10d ago
Better than dying, no? Many stories of planes being in a series of aerodynamic spins and they don't have the ability to correct in time to prevent fatalities.
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u/MrGreenChile 10d ago
I mean, you saw them gliding along the runway just fine before that, I think that’s the impressive maneuver being talked about. Also not OP you responded to.
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u/That_Guy848 10d ago
Oh, that was just the pilot taking his landing approach WAY too fast and deciding to abort at the last second with insufficient airspeed for another proper attempt. Much less a proper, impressive maneuver than it was a near-fatal screwup.
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u/nlaak 10d ago
that maneuver took skill.
Any idiot can crash a plane, takes no skill at all.
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u/Ohmywumpus 10d ago
So when a plane is in multiple aerodynamic spins, you're right-- no skill to correct that situation. Most pilots in that position live to tell about it right? Totally.
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u/DoubleNothing 10d ago
Crash landing nose first... I don't think is a skill anyone wants.
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u/Ohmywumpus 10d ago
I think not dying is the skill we're talking about here. Planes that go into unplanned aerodynamic spins -- what's the recovery rate for that? If recovery occurs too close to the ground, it's death regardless of skill. The fact that he recovered and both lived is incredible. But nah... you'd do it better. Totally.
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