[Colby420]

Shitty

[denemarsden]

"airplane damage : written off " you dont say

[Airbornemama]

Damn.....that's just terrible!!

[synthninja]

That was horrible but quite quick really from an onlookers point of view. I hope they all died painlessly as possible on impact.

[phadeL]

whoops..........

[DocumentingMatrix]

No shit it's all over. The plane crashed nose first into the fucking ground.

[grimekeepa]

And that is why they do not cross train fighter pilots, and commercial pilots.

[FuManBoobs]

Originally Posted by gatagato ↗

Accident description
Date: 27 AUG 1992
Time: 10:20
Type: de Havilland Canada DHC-4T Caribou Operator: NewCal Aviation Registration: N400NC
C/n / msn: 240
First flight: 1965
Crew: Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: Gimli, MB (Canada)
Phase: Initial climb (ICL)
Nature: Test
Departure airport: Gimli Airport, MB (YGM) (YGM/GYGM), Canada
Destination airport: Gimli Airport, MB (YGM) (YGM/GYGM), Canada
Narrative:
The aircraft took off for a test flight for a turbine-engine conversion programme. It climbed steeply, rolled to the right and crashed in a nose-down, rightwing-low attitude.


Sources:
» Flight International 9-15.9.1992 (p.35)
» ICAO Adrep Summary 6/94 (#79)
» Scramble 160





TSB concluded that the control gust lock system had not been fully disengaged prior to flight and that one or more of the locking pins had become re-engaged after lift-off.
Nuff said.

Exactly what I would have said.

...so was there a pilot or...?

[denemarsden]

"its all over" yeah all over the fucking runway

[deeroozle]

Isn't there a term for what happened here? Something "dancing"? Or am I thinking of some other kind of airplane-destroying altitude effect? I know nothing of this aviation.