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Baby gender reveal celebration with a low pass on Saturday 2 September 2023. Most of the crowd and cameraman were so focused on the baby gender that they...

 

[kasper]

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[Jabiru7252]

Most people these days are so stupid they probably thought it was normal. Check out info on millennials, it's scary what you read. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Holy Poop! That was sad.

[onetrack]

What kind of pilot overstresses an airframe with a pull up like that? I'd have to say the same kind of pilot who neglects adequate takeoff checklists, and who skips over airframe maintenance.

[facthunter]

A Pawnee should have been strong enough to take it. At least a bit more so than other light aircraft.  Nev

[Old Koreelah]

Quite a few Pawnees are used by gliding clubs as tugs- a job once offered to me. 

Who knows what previous damage has been done to such an old airframe?

[facthunter]

Maybe but they all should have inspections.  Nev

[onetrack]

There's an FAA AD - AD 95-12-01 - that relates to increased inspection levels of wing forward spar fuselage attachment assembly on the Pawnee - especially when the Pawnee has been used in some types of ag work.

 

Some of the commentors indicate the mandated FAA PA-25 inspection is not strict enough.

 

https://resources.univair.com/docs/ad-95-12-01-forward-wing-spars

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[poteroo]

Did my early cotton spraying in a Pawnee, and of course in the early 70s they were in good shape. Get a few thousand litres of corrosive spray and solids dust through them, x 20 years, and the corrosion runs wild. In any event, no sane Aggie would do a rolling pull up like that as it really stresses things. 

[danny_galaga]

I wouldnt go hard on the photographer. They would be wanting to go straight back to the couple. It was less than a second. They wouldn't have realised what they had filmed until after the accident.