Pilot and passenger are killed from ground impact after a low altitude stall from pitching up to clear power lines.
NTSB Report FTW94FA140
A video camera with a tape inside was recovered from the accident site. The video showed the progression of portions of the flight, including the last moments prior to impact. The tape contained audio as well as video recordings. The recording began at the beginning of the cassette. All of the following times were measured in minutes and seconds from the beginning of the tape. Between video tape time 00:00 and 01:37, the tape contained various shots of the ramp area at the Brownsville airport. There were two brief views of the accident airplane during this segment. Between 01:38 and 03:29, there were shots taken outside the right window. The airplane was at altitude in a level cruise attitude over flat terrain and engine noises could be heard in the background. At 03:29, the camera panned onto the instrument 03:58. From 03:58 until 04:22, there was footage of a grass fire on the ground, a decrease in power was heard, along with a comment “call fire department.”
Starting at 04:22 and running to 04:34, there was a view of a downwind approach to the fire shot from the right side of the airplane. Altitude at this time was estimated as being between 10 and 20 feet AGL. The engine noise decreased slightly during this sequence. Between 04:34 and 05:02, the tape showed the airplane banking left, still at low altitude and at 04:58, the comment “crop duster style” was heard. At 05:02, the airplane overflew a canal with brush on either side and an unidentifiable sound is heard from the bottom of the airplane.
At 05:03, the tape shows the airplane straight and level at low altitude over a field. At 05:08, a set of power lines is visible out the front windshield and at 05:14, the comment “under or over” is heard, followed at 05:16, by the comment “over.” Between 05:14 and 05:29, the camera showed a view of the airplane entering a steep pull up, followed by laughter and screaming. At 05:25, the stall warning horn activated and a left bank is discernable. This was followed by an expletive at 05:28, and another unintelligible comment at 05:29, and a vertical field of view of the cultivated field. The portion of the video tape that ran between 05:26 and 05:29, was damaged. At various points during the video, the engine instruments were visible. All of the engine power instruments were within high cruise power setting parameters throughout the taped sequences.
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This is so fake
No, you are fake.
Damn, I’m training in the c150, better not do this!
Its fake
But why does the camera die right there? Odd.
Because it’s a magnetic tape. It got damaged during the crash while it was
writing the final bits of data.
Bet they don’t do that again.
Shit , Noo! ..
What a fool. Just gives the aviation community a bad name. Loads of silly
comments on here, do your PPL and then comment.
Years ago, an RF(4)C crew took the fin cap off an airplane on a low level.
They never saw the power line. When the ground crew ask “what happened?”
it was the first they new anything. They ran into OPS and got out the
charts. There was the power line, right in flight path they had taken.
The mystery of the missing fin cap solved. The point is, you need to know
the route if you are on the deck. This crew cancelled IFR because they
were bored, and went low level on a route they had not planned. I hate to
criticize under the circumstances, but this Cessna should not have been
that low. Even so, the Cessna at cruise speed should have had little
problem clearing the power line. Maybe they waited too long to start the
pull up, but the pull up was excessive and beyond the angle for Vy speed
that I would consider more of a normal operation. Sure you can pull up more
steeply, but the pitch needs correction before you run out of airspeed at
low altitude. You can’t load and unload the aircraft at low altitude and
get away with it consistently. As pilots, we all make mistakes. We need
to eliminate the stupid ones. Most of us, who have flown much, can think
of a few things we should not have done. RIP
,.. amateurs
The biggest question: Did these dumbasses survive?
Shit shit ! Hahaha it’s Darwin time!
As a pilot, I’ve lost a lot of friends in airplane crashes – every time due
to complacency along some link of the decision making process. Proper
Aeronautical Decision Making should be heavily taught before anyone ever
sits in a cockpit.
Note to young people…remember in the video how they were laughing and
having a blast thinking that everything was so fun right up until the stall
and crash…? And then you hear those awful screams…?
That’s like life…eternity is one breath away. Make your life count now…
At 5:25 you can hear the stall warning buzzer if you listen closely.
I guess this is the pilot:
May/3 Obituaries
FRANCISCO REYES JR.
#Francisco “Reyes” Jr., 26, of Brownsville, died April 30, 1994, in an
airplane accident north of Los Fresnos.
A Brownsville native, he was a paramedic for the city of Los Fresnos and a
telemetry technician at Valley Regional Medical Center. He was a 1985
graduate
of Homer Hanna High School, a graduate of Texas Southmost College, of the
UT-B
Police Academy and also a graduate of the American Fliers Academy of Fort
Worth. He was a pilot and captain with the Civil Air Patrol and a volunteer
pilot for the U.S. Customs.
bad move on the wrong day. i have been flying for 20 years and still would
not try a stunt like that . He was never trained to fly that way surly.
Why did it glitch b4 they crashed? Lol
One does have to wonder why the video goes scewompus before any real gs
would impact upon it? Never the less, You never pitch a 150 that steep and
yes you could hear the stall alarms on the wings. Very sad.
+Cess182sn If you have a pilot’s license in the USA (which I really doubt
you have), then it needs to be revoked. Let’s get rid of ignorance: this
case is 100% real. The video is 100% real.
Any pilot will recognize this, and every student should recognize it. It’s
a tragic video that should be received as a learning lesson for
pilots/students alike; not as a case of skepticism. I tried contacting him
months ago to no avail.
+Cess182sn has no business operating an aircraft, as everything he says
is against the most basic of FAA regulations.
+Cess182sn
I asked nearly a year ago:
the_others8 months ago
Are you really a pilot? The ignorant post you made has 7 likes.
+Cess182sn the video above is so fake, the federal government is even in on
it… ugh… here is a link to NTSB.gov showing the final narrative of the
national transportation safety board,
this is a real accident, which actually happened. The tape goes to static
before the accident because the tape broke during impact and had to be
“repaired”, the static you see and reduction in quality is due to the
repair of the tape (this is a VHS style Cassette recording) yes he has
“plenty of speed to clear anything” but flying requires a minimum of two of
the following 3 things; Speed, altitude, brains. It becomes quickly
apparent that this particular pilot had only 1 of the three things needed
to bring the flight to a successful conclusion and despite being the holder
of a commercial certificate he shows either (a) a total lack of knowledge
regarding accelerated stalls and or stall spin awareness and recovery or
(b) knowledge of these things, but a complete disregard for that knowledge
My right ear enjoyed this
There are approximately 8-9 seconds that elapse from the time that he
begins his pull up until the stall horn sounds. That is a LONG time in a
high nose up attitude in a Cessna 150. If the aircraft was flying at around
100 mph it could very well have produced a 700+ ft per min climb rate.
(Cessna 150 sustained climb rate 670 ft min @sea level and 67 kts.) That
would be 110+ ft in 9 seconds. That should have been more than enough for
adequate clearance. I think it’s obvious that the pilot was showboating
and lost situational awareness. There was no good reason to be THAT
low anyway.
Cessna 150. Reg Tail Number in this video accident report.
John Sealy. Can’t fix stupid.
It’s a shame that these people had to pay the ultimate price, for their
poor judgment.
That’s what happens when you fly a full sized cessna like a park flyer.
the last words of the pilots “SHIT! NOOO!”
Too long after the dumb BUZZ JOB to gain altitude