Another plane crash

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I saw an article about the number of hours before death for various activities. Commercial airlines about a million hours maybe more, don’t recall, private plane 65,000 hours, hang gliding 35,000 hours, BASE jumping 20 minutes!

 

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I saw an article about the number of hours before death for various activities. Commercial airlines about a million hours maybe more, don’t recall, private plane 65,000 hours, hang gliding 35,000 hours, BASE jumping 20 minutes!

The pilot reported the door was ajar and he panicked and crashed. Years ago a pilot told me of a similar situation—door was ajar so he turned around to land and in all the commotion with the passengers freaking out he forgot to put down the landing gear and landed the plane on its belly. The passengers did not even realize what happened.

 

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The pilot reported the door was ajar and he panicked and crashed. Years ago a pilot told me of a similar situation—door was ajar so he turned around to land and in all the commotion with the passengers freaking out he forgot to put down the landing gear and landed the plane on its belly. The passengers did not even realize what happened.

When I die I want to go peacefully like my grandfather, not kicking and screaming like everyone else in the plane. Sad to say that pilot was not qualified to be flying if he can’t handle such a minor problem.

 

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It's possible there was another problem, the plane was going down, and the pilot intentionally opened the door. I have a pilot's license and one of the things you do in an emergency landing is open the door so it doesn't get pinned shut if the plane wrecks. In an unpressurized small plane, if a door were to come open in flight the slip stream will keep it mostly closed. Nobody's gonna get sucked out.

 

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It's possible there was another problem, the plane was going down, and the pilot intentionally opened the door. I have a pilot's license and one of the things you do in an emergency landing is open the door so it doesn't get pinned shut if the plane wrecks. In an unpressurized small plane, if a door were to come open in flight the slip stream will keep it mostly closed. Nobody's gonna get sucked out.

I used to fly hang gliders and paragliders. If you don’t hear the wind noise then you better do something fast. BTW, hang gliders are safer then paragliders in turbulence.

This guy radioed that the door was open and he was returning to land. Must not have had much altitude.

Not sure what plane the pilot I knew was flying during his incident but he took me for a ride in his Beechcraft Bonanza. Maybe some issue with the door latch, I don’t know.

I’m sorry, did not mean to make light of this accident. I can’t imagine anything more painful than burning up. Say some prayers for them.

I don’t know what the intentions of the OP but this was not and air traffic control issue.