C150F N7893F crash near KSQI 7/24/21

[PeterNSteinmetz]

No injuries, Dan Gryder was pilot flying in a go-around when a technical failure forced a landing in a nearby cornfield.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

I don't know how big the other guy is.
Dan appears to be 5'10 and maybe 200 lbs

Re: takeoff distance, the runway they took off on was 6500 feet.
This was a low approach not a takeoff.

I don't know what the useful load is on that plane.

Other fellow appears about 3” shorter and perhaps 10# less. So that would be 390#.

A 150G has a max gross weight of 1600# and empty of between 975# and 1060#, so useful load without fuel of 540# - 615#. So maybe 75# - 150# for fuel.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

A full-flap go-around in a 150 is a sketchy thing even if you're solo. Those 150 flaps are nearly as big as 172 flaps, and that little O-200 isn't really 100 hp either.

This. Why would you use full flaps when you intend to do a low pass???

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Because you made an impulsive decision and exercised bad judgment. It’s much easier to do than one would think.

True. Especially if in addition to impulsivity you also have that hazardous attitude of invulnerability.

Love his quote: “I crash planes all the time”

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Aircraft was N7893F, a C150F from 1966.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Airport temp and dewpoint at the time would be nice to know.

http://www.aviationwxchartsarchive.com/product/metar

Though it does not sound like the engine stopped making power but rather the flaps would not come up.

Might have been a combination though since I have flown a C150G recently in high DA with 2 people on board and with full flaps it still would fly and climb just a bit at full power.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

What time did this happen?

First post about it here on PoA was 17 hours ago now, so sometime prior to 03:30Z today. Video immediately after the crash appears to be early evening, about 1.5 hours before sunset. Sunset was 8:32 PM local time up there, so an estimate would be 7 PM local time, which would correspond to 02:00Z.

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/to...p?posts/3117882/&share_type=t&link_source=app

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

What's your point? My experience is that I could, with a flight instructor also in the plane, climb with 40° flaps. It climbed long enough for a ham-fisted student to work things out with the flaps. I'm sorry my experience doesn't conform with your beliefs, but that's too bad.

I think the point is that this is Matthias Fridgen in his reasonably common prosecutorial inquiry mode.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Who is he?

The poster you quoted, dmspilot. He does this sort of thing with some frequency.