Can't you crash into something else where you might have a chance to survive?
2006-10-12 18:23:05 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
I personally think they got in over their heads.
When you get around buildings there is serious wind shear and thermals that can throw an aircraft around like a toy; especially a small one.
I'll keep the rest of my personal thoughts to myself until the NTSB rules on the cause a year from now.
2006-10-12 19:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by planedws 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There could be a million reasons why this crash took place the way that it did. I have noticed that there are a lot of non-pilots who are searching for instant answers regarding Lidle's crash. The fact is, most aviation accidents have lots of small, contributing factors that all combine together to make a single, big problem that causes an accident. Often times, it is a chain reaction and if any of the links of the chain are broken along the way, the accident never would have occurred. Unlike cars, a single factor frequently can't be determined as to why an aviation accident happens the way it happens.
2006-10-13 14:27:52 · answer #2 · answered by Kelley S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not a direct answer but here in the UK in Wales there is a mountain called Snowdon,On one did of the mountain is a lake like an extinct volcano crater,Aircraft have now been banned from the immediate area,In the past aircraft one as large as a DC3 were literally sucked down and crashed into the crater wall its called the Whispering Lake and is reputed to be haunted by the souls of dead aircrew,To the point it demonstrates the power of wind shear.
2006-10-12 22:29:12 · answer #3 · answered by Francis7 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If he knew he was going to crash, he would have pulled the parachute that his airplane came with and at least softened the blow a little. As a pilot, I tend not to speculate on the cause of a crash unless I was there. I'll let the NTSB solve that if they can.
If any one in the media knew anything about airplanes, we would have more facts about the plane, the weather, what the instructor with him was doing. Just about the time you think you are going to learn something about the crash, they take off on wild tangents about the Yankees, the folks out west, then no more about the story.
2006-10-12 18:30:52 · answer #4 · answered by eferrell01 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why did you not look this up, when your very question has been asked 14 different times? (Use keywords "airliner" and "parachute") Since you're obviously too busy to look it up, I'll just repeat my answer: 1) Most crashes occur at take off or landing, where there's not enough altitude to jump. 2) It takes a LOT of training to learn how to use a parachute properly. Even in the army jump school, the course takes THREE WEEKS FULL TIME, the first week you don't even leave the ground! 3) Logistics: can you design a parachute that can be used by EVERYBODY, up to senior citizens in wheelchairs, down to babies and small kids in strollers? How do you determine how many to carry if you issue different sizes? 4) Ethics: if you determine that you can't save everybody, who then do you save?
2016-05-21 22:10:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A heart attack? It would be kind of hard not to crash a plane into some sort of building if you had no control of it and were descending over NYC.
by the way, most planes fly quite nicely by themselves once they are properly in the air and the trim tabs adjusted for level flight, kind of like the older style gas model airplanes with no radio control.
2006-10-12 18:29:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When your in a plane so many mile's in the air and your going out of control I don't think you have time to think about where to land. And are you referring to the Manhattan incident where that baseball player crashed into a building? If so, it could have also been foul play. Also We can't think evey little thing that happens now is related to 9/11. Yes it happend and yes things like that will make our 1st thought be "OMG terorist".
BTW I had a friend who lost his house becuase a plane crashed into it and he lived in a big *** feild. Sometimes **** happens.
2006-10-12 18:25:58 · answer #7 · answered by mystique_dragon4 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Why do you take a beginning pilot and fly him around city buildings? It almost sounds like one of them was suicidal.
2006-10-12 18:25:53 · answer #8 · answered by San Diego Art Nut 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the middle of Manhattan? Where would that "safer" place be, exactly? Also, your question assumes that he was experiencing some kind of trouble that he was aware of. Has that been reported? Maybe it has. If not, it's possible some freak thing just suddenly happened. Maybe he just got distracted. Who knows.
2006-10-12 18:32:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they called in a mayday right before they crashed, they prob. lost flight controls and couldn't con troll the plane anymore
2006-10-12 18:25:28 · answer #10 · answered by Mike C 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋