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A pilot died during a gender reveal party when his plane crashed after dispersing pink smoke in the air above the gathering.
A video posted online shows a couple standing in front of a large lit up sign reading “Oh Baby,” before capturing the pilot flying low to the ground while releasing the pink smoke above the pair in San Pedro, Mexico. Just after flying over the couple, the plane’s left wing quickly snapped and the aircraft spiraled out of control and crashed in a nearby field.
They dont know what happened? That pilot used a crop dusting plane to do a strafing run, realized he was headed nose first into some palm trees and yanked up on the yoke. He sheered the wing straight off his plane and died for the mistake.
Sure that’s what caused the crash, but why did the wing snap? It didn’t look like the plane was in overspeed, and the airframe should be able to sustain any input maneuvers under normal flight conditions.
the airframe should be able to sustain any input maneuvers under normal flight conditions.
Let me frame it this way for you, my car’s pretty reliable, but at high speeds I know that making a hard turn will end in catastrophe.
making a hard turn will end in catastrophe
Sure, if you end up smashing into a tree. But it’s not like the wheels are going to snap off or the body buckle. If you’re on an empty airfield tarmac, it would be perfectly safe. On some cars there will be a risk of rollover, but designing cars that tip over when extreme input is applied is itself fairly controversial.
Sure, if you end up smashing into a tree. But it’s not like the wheels are going to snap off or the body buckle. If you’re on an empty airfield tarmac, it would be perfectly safe. On some cars there will be a risk of rollover, but designing cars that tip over when extreme input is applied is itself fairly controversial.
Oh God, please tell me you don’t have a driver’s license if you think any of this bad logic is a reasonable rebuttle.
Ok, let’s forget the trees or any scenery for a moment. Let’s say they don’t exist, and that the plane is in an open, and empty area.
Planes are very finicky things. If the angles aren’t right, it won’t be able to fly. If you look at an airplane wing from the side, they are normally shaped a bit like long tear drops. After gaining it’s initial momentum, the plane is kind of lifted by gliding through the air pressure. Plane wings are shaped that way to make the air move faster over the top of the wing. When the air moves faster, the pressure of that air decreases. So the pressure on the top of the wing is less than the pressure on the bottom of the wing. The difference in pressure creates a force on the wing that lifts the wing of the plane up into the air.
Airplanes are full of many things that are pretty complex. If we changed airplanes to be able to “roll over” for safety, we would lose that special system that allows the lift to happen.
Since planes are so finicky, planes with different purposes will usually be built differently. Since they still have to be able to fly, adding one thing may sometimes means removing another thing. Those particular planes were never meant to make those maneuvers, and they weren’t built to handle them. It would be like upgrading a car’s engine block to be turbo-powered, then keeping the same coolant system and expecting it to run fine. You have to respect the equipment and follow guidelines, as they are usually there for a good reason.
The idea was that everyone would know not to do that (via their pilot licence), and that it would be ok to have specialty planes. The plane was never meant to move that way, and the wings weren’t fortified for those angles.
This is a crop duster, not a stunt plane. It’s not designed for that maneuver, so if you try, wings snap off. Iow, not normal flight conditions. Unlike civil engineers, you can’t slap a factor of safety of 10 on an airplane. It won’t fly.
I think you’re underestimating his speed and overestimating the strength of airframes. Most planes can easily get to speeds where inputs can exceed structural limits under normal flight conditions. There is even a V speed for it, Va or maneuvering speed. A quick google suggests that Vne, or “never exceed” for the PA 25 is -35 knots and Va is 104 knots. Now I have never flown one and I haven’t completely verified them but they sound about right. At 104 knots he can over G the airframe. Assuming a standard safety factor of 1.5 and a g limit of 3.8 (basic assumptions but I can’t find actual data for the PA25) and at max weight you can expect severe structural damage with full control inputs at 127 knots. If he wasn’t carrying that much and was lighter that number comes down as well. Finally, there’s the fact that it was a crop duster in Mexico so who knows what the maintenance history and actual condition of that wing spar was. Either way, even if it was in top form hitting 130 knots on a show boating low pass isn’t that crazy.
The pilot has probably been beating on the airframe like this for years.
Equivalent exchange. You’ve got to take a life to make a life.
Ed ward
*genital reveal party
Yeah, gender is a separate thing now.
Well at least she gonna be pooping out a replacement soon.
Seriously though, just get a cake with a pink or blue frosting layer hidden under the fondant line a civilized person. Or go with green just to fuck with everybody lol.
Or go with green just to fuck with everybody lol.
“Congratulations, it’s a ninja turtle!”
Nice click bait picture The Hill
Was just about to point out they could have taken any of the 1000 frames from the video of the actual incident but instead chose a stock photo.
They also had an option to use a stock photo of the actual aircraft type on the ground.
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Not much to report on here… until you can explain why the wing snapped.
Seems like the wing snapped because he pulled up too hard with a plane that wasn’t designed for it.
my guess is it wasn’t maintained properly as well. that wing definitely failed because he pulled up harder than he should have, but it may have been due to material fatigue as a contributing factor.
either way… the pilot is probably the guy that maintains it.
It’s a girl!
It was a boy.
That plane looked like it was made out of cardboard and duct-tape.
Jesus, is that made out of paper mache?
Jesus: sí.
Legit looked like that plane was something the wright brothers made
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If you look at the ground, an air cannon blasts smoke and confetti right below where the wing snaps upward.
My guess is there was already upward force on the wing when doing the low pass, and the air cannon burst collided with the airstream.
The timing is too perfect for it to be unrelated. Fuck your babies gender.
Idk that air cannons at a different angle. My money is on poor aircraft maintenance coupled with pilot error of pulling up too quickly with too much speed.
C’mon. The wings fell off the airplane. Pilot obviously spent years beating the shit out of the airframe and the wingbox finally failed.
gender party reveal idea. i punch you in the goddamn mouth and scream the babies gender in your face
