Cessna flips on landing Essendon 17-05-23

[red750]

Cessna 172 VH-WDA flew from Bacchus Marsh to Essendon, and touched down on runway 26 whereupon it flipped onto its roof. The pilot is reported to be uninjured.

 

[facthunter]

Looks as though the nosewheel has dug in in soft turf. What was it doing there? Very minor damage.  Nev

[turboplanner]

He ran off the edge of the runway for some reason; I saw a curved track off the edge in the TV footage; perhaps a gust of wind, perhaps a brake lockup.

[red750]

Yeah. Zoom in on Flightradar24 and you'll see the excursion to the left of the runway.

[old man emu]

Ran off the runway? Bugger! Can't use the "plummeted from the sky" cliche.

[onetrack]

But at least it was a Cessna.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Booo! 😉

 

Cessna's a great aircraft..

[facthunter]

Could be a worn brake pad on one side. I've had it happen in a 182.. Nev

[Garfly]

5 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Booo! 😉

 

Cessna's a great aircraft..

Jerry, I don't think Onetrack was suggesting otherwise; only that the daily news can be trusted to get the "Cessna" part of the story right this time. 

 

[onetrack]

Jerry, what I was referring to, was the media calling every crashed aircraft a Cessna, regardless of the actual make or style of construction.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Must have been distracted by Wolfie Blass

[facthunter]

Are you on a bender from a product of a Wine BLENDER.?   Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Nev, you surely know me well enough to answer that question 😉

 

Getting harder to find my other mate, Grant Burge around this neck of the woods...

[facthunter]

There are "myriad" other unknow brands. Some of the older sites have become too hot to make a good wine from.  I'm trying to have LESS of BETTER.. Not easy.   Nev

[derekliston]

On 18/5/2023 at 7:16 AM, Jerry_Atrick said:

Booo! 😉

 

Cessna's a great aircraft..

No argument there, but I think the comment refers to the media habit of calling anything a Cessna!!!

[turboplanner]

1 hour ago, derekliston said:

No argument there, but I think the comment refers to the media habit of calling anything a Cessna!!!

Which media and when?

[derekliston]

See onetrack amongst others above in this post!

[turboplanner]

56 minutes ago, derekliston said:

See onetrack amongst others above in this post!

I'm seeing a load of BS being repeated over and over again through the years without sources. 

Journalists go to the secene and inteview the people there; Police, Ambulance, Fire personnel etc. The Journalist asks questions "What happened?, Are the occupants OK, what is the injury level, what sort of aircraft is it?  Usually none of the aeronautical experts have shown up to give the correct information, so the journalist has to file the story with the descriptions of Police/Ambulance/Fire personnel free from the rescue.  The story needs to be about 20 < 50 words for a local incident and these days is put to air instantly, updating the News site without Editing, unless there is a controversial comment (s).

 

While it might be important to some people for the Make, Model, Year, and registration type of a crashed aircraft to be included in the news that they whine like broken records on social media, those same people don't bother to comment when the make, model, year and variant is not mentioned in a car crash report,  or when there's a building on fire don't mention that the building failed the last five fire inspections because it is build from [choose your fire prone material] etc.

 

Journalists still have to do five years of University study to get their degree, and if anyone cares to email and ask a jouranists why he/she called a Tobago a Cessna, the journalist will usually go to their source notes which are kept, read back and tell you The Name, Rank, Service of the person interviewed who provided the information.

 

 

[horsefeathers]

On 18/05/2023 at 10:09 AM, facthunter said:

Could be a worn brake pad on one side. I've had it happen in a 182.. Nev

An extremely close relative of mine  had an almost identical problem (except for flipping) at Redcliffe a few years ago. Gun barrel straight approach and landing, and then without warning, her 172 took a sharp dive to the left. Ozrunways track of her landing looks almost identical to the above Flightradar track... bloody gremlins

Edited May 20, 2023 by horsefeathers
clarification

[turboplanner]

14 hours ago, horsefeathers said:

An extremely close relative of mine  had an almost identical problem (except for flipping) at Redcliffe a few years ago. Gun barrel straight approach and landing, and then without warning, her 172 took a sharp dive to the left. Ozrunways track of her landing looks almost identical to the above Flightradar track... bloody gremlins

Another possibility is a failure in the steering gear. Where the piper Cherokee system is direct, so steering starts as soon as you put your foot on the pedal, the 172 system incorporates springs. I find it slower and disconcerting. If the spring or linkage breaks on one side, the nose wheel will turn towards the other spring as it contracts.

[ClintonB]

On 18/5/2023 at 1:21 PM, Garfly said:

Jerry, I don't think Onetrack was suggesting otherwise; only that the daily news can be trusted to get the "Cessna" part of the story right this time. 

 

Isn’t the old adage “ a broken clock is right twice a day”

 

 

[facthunter]

If I had my way it would only be correct ONCE a day. Nev

[Garfly]

On 23/05/2023 at 11:01 AM, facthunter said:

If I had my way it would only be correct ONCE a day. Nev

Here ya go! 

 

 

[spacesailor]

But , you are out of luck ! .

Metric time is !

Ten metric months   = Deci-years

Of

Ten metric weeks.   =  Centi- years

Of

Ten metric days.      =  Milli-years .

The French wouldn't use it .

spacesailor

[facthunter]

It's already in use. I don't GET what you mean Spacey.  Nev