If the ocean wasn’t so near the shore this would not have happened. If “lead spilling, CO2 producing” airplanes were banned this would not have happened. If airplanes were made out of sponge rubber this would not have happened.
Well, if you could figure out how to build a new airplane that the “average” pilot could afford without winning the lottery, I would gladly ditch my 48-year-old Cessna and get a new and (hopefully) more reliable one!
Here we go again.
Honestly, it looked like they had zero good options with an engine failure where it happened. You throw the dice and hope you live through it. I was thinking of this very store as I was flying home last night on Christmas night that if I had an engine failure that there was really no “good options” at night over the dark Texas brush country. Ya glide down at the darkest area and hope for the best.
I would never have thought to land perpendicular to the shore line, but maybe that was his only option??
Irony alert?
Pilot had the approach nailed; on speed, etc., but just too many beachgoers. You wonder what the seat belt configuration in the old 150A was. Sholder restraint is everything in this sort of crash.
With no disrespect for Mr Minter or his family, when my time on this earth is up, flying onto a beach in Santa Monica at sunset doesn’t sound like a bad way to go. One last flight, one last beach, one last sunset, rest in peace Mr Minter.
Might beat one last diaper change that you’re not even aware of…
Hitting a # with an 8 in front of it is pretty darn good, let alone a 9.
It might be more accurate to say that the man died “during” an on-going emergency-landing/plane crash. He was described as being in a condition of “cardiac arrest” … It was not claimed that death occurred as the result of blunt-force-trauma or drowning.
Another case of inaccurate plane-crash-reporting as usual.
Oor both did not pay a license fee by the end of the year and their 10 day grace period ended…