And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The pilot never raised the tail so he had little elevator and no rudder authority.....and there fore couldn't sideslip it to over the road and miss the trees. As this looks like it was Russia, it is likely that the pilot was incompetent, drunk or both.
I wondered why there was a small Swedish flag on the stabilizer. I found this https://www.airdatanews.com/video-old-antonov-an-2-plane-crashes-into-trees-after-taking-off-from-field-in-sweden/ I'm no expert on Soviet radial engines but that doesn't sound like it was at take-off rpm. Al_in_Ottawa
I just hate it when that happens...
ReplyDeleteapropos of nothing - Isn't that 'Aeroflot' (the Russian airline) written on the side of the plane?
Yes it is.
DeleteAnd as such perhaps the pilot was shall we say, under the influence?
DeleteNeeds a JATO unit strapped on.
ReplyDeleteIs this a regularly scheduled flight? Are tickets hard to get?
ReplyDeleteThe pilot never raised the tail so he had little elevator and no rudder authority.....and there fore couldn't sideslip it to over the road and miss the trees.
ReplyDeleteAs this looks like it was Russia, it is likely that the pilot was incompetent, drunk or both.
And he was slow on the rudder causing a slip.
DeleteRudder???? What??? Pilot didn't have the flaps down.. .to lift plane into the air!!!
DeleteOops. Shoulda used the road.
ReplyDelete"According to local reports, Brattfors intended to take off from a road, but because of traffic he opted to use a field on the side."
DeleteThat's what you get when the russkies hire Jack Elam as a pilot (akcherly more likely a drunk pilot).
ReplyDeleteB is right, he could have gotten the tail up and ruddered away from the trees. Drunk or incompetent. That An-2 is one hell of an air machine.
ReplyDeleteAntonov A-2. Almost certainly overloaded. Ivan ,eased up.
ReplyDeleteI wondered why there was a small Swedish flag on the stabilizer.
ReplyDeleteI found this
https://www.airdatanews.com/video-old-antonov-an-2-plane-crashes-into-trees-after-taking-off-from-field-in-sweden/
I'm no expert on Soviet radial engines but that doesn't sound like it was at take-off rpm.
Al_in_Ottawa
Big rooskie biplane couldn't get off? hahahahahahahahahaha
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that the AN-2 can't get a Certificate of Airworthiness in the UK . . .
ReplyDeleteAnother DEI hire?
ReplyDeleteCCCP - There's yer problem.
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