CRAZY CRASH of a Boeing-Stearman E75 Kaydet at Bar V K Airport, Sanger, Texas (10/04/2024)

[@Matt-mo8sl]

Tree point landing, not too shabby!

[@ScottScouter]

GROAN

[@gaulbaugh]

Not too shrubbery

[@TheGreatBillyMays]

Wood you not, considering the nature of this video?

[@peglegjim57]

I’m stealing that line! 😂

[@larrysmith6603]

Incidents happen among the most seasoned flyers! In the 80s I knew an AA 727 captain . Thousands of hours under his belt he flew F100 in Southeast Asia and owned and flew vintage aircraft. He owned a retired Spanish Air Force T6 Texan. One day he was doing touch and goes in the pattern. He decided to leave the landing gear down and locked. Unfortunately on the last circuit he brought the landing gear up out of habit. He was just about to flare when the tower alerted him his gear was up but it was too late! He took action immediately after realizing he made a mistake. He kept that airplane in a straight line down the runway minimizing damage as much as possible. After very expensive repairs made the aircraft was airworthy in about 5 months! The lesson he told me to be learned was always rely on a checklist

[@JoeBlow-zr2ru]

From the pilot's description, it sounds like LOTOT / ROTOT (Loss/Reduction OF Thrust On Takeoff) ... which calls for an *_immediate_* and substantial pitch-down to prevent a stall ... but it can be a very scary thing to do when this low, and usually there is a "startle factor" that delays a pilots situational processing. This Stearman is clearly deeply stalled, and has a very high ROD (rate of decent). They were lucky not to spin and crash inverted, which is frequently what follows low altitude stalls like this.

[@matrox]

First off why TF would they have trees lining a runway???? Dude would have made it without the trees. Imagine landing on this runway in a hell of a crosswind.

[@saito125]

25k hours at age 57 ?? He was born with a pilot certificate!

[@BarnestormerAK]

And all PIC time..

[@petesmith9472]

Not really. Depends when you started ATPL career.

[@joncox9719]

Geeze, 25,000 hours, ATP, INSTRUCTOR Rating and does not recognized a basic stall or maybe a STUCK airspeed indicator? Destroyed a perfectly good aircraft!

[@daleolson3506]

Don’t land in the trees. You can’t park there.

[@thannvandenbosch7883]

Glad there ok, I hope somebody can restore the stearman,

[@philrutherford6486]

The video starts too late to make an informed comment.

[@michaelbohlander6711]

My Dad teaching me to fly..."What are you going to do sit there fat dumb and happy and go off the runway, fly the airplane"

[@CraigCholar]

"Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology."

[@millimetreperfect]

Going to cost $6,000,000

[@MartinJefferies-j1d]

Plus "my dad is a TV repairman, and he's got an awesome set of tools. We can fit it" - Jeff Spicoli

[@jimmydulin928]

The concept of pitching up when the airplane will fly in ground effect is a really poor energy management concept. Vso is an out of ground effect number. He didn't get that slow up there, but he certainly didn't have zoom reserve airspeed. I sprayed crops with that airplane, and the 450 HP of the R-985 was certainly enough to accelerate in low ground effect to enough zoom reserve to clear the trees with 200 gallons in the hopper. But I didn't try that one quarter way down the runway or across the crop field. Two things may be misleading pilots, especially experienced pilots. Vx or Vy as appropriate is not appropriate until zoom reserve airspeed is developed. Positive rate of climb has no meaning until zoom reserve airspeed is developed. Zoom reserve airspeed? Read about the law of the roller coaster and holding it down on page 85 of Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche. Flying is neither a new thing or rocket science.

[@davidgapp1457]

By Texas standards, he's an ace pilot.

[@terrallputnam7979]

Many times seasoned pilots make little errors that cause a crash. It happens. We all must try to not be complacent. Complacency is a killer.

[@dalestockman4292]

Perhaps a reduction in power? IIF cruising at 80knots indicated while maintaining AOA, reduced power could result in the negative climb rate. I may be wrong but it appears to me that the aircraft AOA reduced significantly and accelerated after it bounced - enough to keep flying until it hit the trees. So, power on stall, resulting from an incorrect response to a reduction of power? Thankfully, both survived.

[@user-nunyabusinessgov]

The plane wanted to fly but not with that pilot. He pulled back so the Tail Wheel would absorb the impact????

[@cup_and_cone]

AOA was up the entire time... Absolute refusal to put it down in the grass and overrun the runway.

[@jbl7092]

He stalled it. What an idiot.

[@michaelturocy]

Even though he had only 10 hrs in type, his total time experience and ratings should not have allowed the airplane to have a high sink rate and AOA. He got complacent... period.

[@cmoney2731]

Dude you gotta steer man! Cant just fly it straight into the trees.

[@xjet]

I see what you did there ;-)

[@shermangreen4244]

That'll buff out.

[@grasuh]

Flown like a model airplane

[@jimmyhaley727]

NOOB

[@reggiepaulk]

I don’t know the layout of the field, but it looks like he was landing and got way too slow. The aircraft appears to have mushed into the ground prior to the runway and then bounced over the berm and into the trees on the side of the runway. It doesn’t look like he was taking off. Edit: I’ve since looked at the field, and he was beyond the departure end. Not sure why it descended.

[@LeeAndersonMusic]

He had just taken off and stalled

[@joncox9719]

The Pilot said in his report, he was taking off!

[@donkern388]

What did you expect? It's Texas.

[@easttexan2933]

as Dan Gryder (Probable Cause) would say...."push" !!!!

[@HTN3]

Why no chutes? They had time to eject.

[@2-Hands]

The plane was designed BEFORE they ever came out with Ejection Seats.

[@JStock-id1qi]

Who put those trees there ? Newsom ?

[@Alfactors]

What a waste of a good airplane. I bet you if you ask him, could have his airplane the day before he had said no. Now he can keep it

[@1972challenger]

Any landing you can walk away from or whatever

[@peterthoshinsky6468]

Any "crash" not "any landing".

[@washburnb1]

He never should have been at the controls of that airplane, especially a Stearman. No way he had 25k hours, and if he did, he never learned basics.

[@MrZcotty]

good grief what a damned amateur landing.

[@Nick-cd4kd]

more incompetent pilots!