Faunsdale, AL | jd8850 - 12/23/2025 16:36
That's 20-20 hindsight and shda cda wudda.
A veteran pilot would hardly think all that through let alone a very part-time pilot.
The point Dan is making in his video is the same one he’s always making….. that when you have an engine failure during take-off, it’s usually/frequently a bad decision to immediately turn around and return to the airport you just left.
So, many end up crashing because they don’t have enough power/energy/altitude to make it back as in this case
Or the pilot just flys too aggressively for the energy state they actually have and stalls the wing and crashes. In this case, flaps and gear are not your friends if you can’t make the runway with them hanging out in the breeze.
Dan’s mantra is “straight ahead”. He keeps banging on this point because everybody is hardwired to turn around. Better to pick a field or even crash into trees in a normal flight attitude than to stall it and hit vertically.
In the jet, with one engine making power, unless they had fire indications the safest decision was certainly to go to a bigger airport.
Pilots have a hard time making the switch from worrying about not bending the plane to worrying about not killing the people inside the plane. Once they make this mental transition, the plane becomes an expendable tool to be used to get everyone safely back on the ground.
Edited by ccjersey 12/24/2025 08:36
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Biffle plane crash?
