Tuesday, November 11, 2014

how to land a plane when a wing falls off


This is for aviators and anyone else who can appreciate how much trouble this pilot had on his hands when on Thursday, 4 September 2014 at 7:08 PM his right wing fell off. There was no way he could level the plane so he put it on its side, forced the nose up, added all the power he had, turning the fuselage into a wing sufficient to check the rate of drop. When he was close enough to earth, he flattened the plane and dropped like a rock, but on his landing gear.

Video here

1 comment:

MalcolmT said...

I think this has been shown in the past to be false - aerodynamics just don't work that way. It looks too much like Microsoft Flight Simulator for me, but the editing is very clever.