Small plane crash-lands on packed Portuguese beach

[Mr. North]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/plane-port ... -1.4232469

My god! Obviously it's easy for me to say but I most definitely would have chosen 100m offshore vs ploughing into people on the beach.

[AirFrame]

Obviously it's easy for me to say but I most definitely would have chosen 100m offshore vs ploughing into people on the beach.

Yes, it's very easy to second-guess from an armchair half a world away. That being said, in a Cessna that's not likely to trap a door closed if it sinks or flips over, I would agree that a water landing would be preferable. Although close to shore, there may not have been a lot less people.

The one wing drooped down like that suggests either a very hard landing, or one of the people killed on the ground was hit by the strut, which failed and allowed the wing to drop. Let's hope there was good insurance in place.

[Greysierra]

Looking at a few of the photos it looks to me to have been a very hard landing. The angle of the nose gear is definitely swept forward and the main gear leg doesn't seem quite right either. The wing strut and wing are obviously bent as well but hard to say if this was a result of the landing or a potential cause to the accident. If the wing had bent due to the hard landing I would have guessed it would have bent outboard of the wing strut.

This is probably the last we'll here about this accident but Id be interested to hear the whole story.

[CL-Skadoo!]

Let's hope there was good insurance in place.

Someone dropped a Cessna on an 8 year old girl, with the parents there to witness it.
Insurance isn't going to do much for repairing that.

[Mr. North]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... t-portugal

Engine failure. I'm sorry but you're in a light single engine Cessna. Tighten up your seat belt, crack open the doors, and put it in the drink.

Instead they chose to put it down here:

[AirFrame]

Someone dropped a Cessna on an 8 year old girl, with the parents there to witness it.
Insurance isn't going to do much for repairing that.

I wasn't thinking about repairing the deaths... I was thinking about how that pilot stays out of the poorhouse. Even with insurance it may not be possible.