How to Crash Land An Airplane On A Freeway With Style and Grace And Survive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2019
- Lately, there seems to have been a rash of airplanes landing on highways. What's going on? In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli explains how to land an airplane on a highway in an emergency. Just try not to do it after running out of gas.
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this guy's great. hes the american version of british humor.
I came to say the same! Love this guy
Agreed… I know nothing of aviation but love his videos
He is. Over here that sense of humour and dry sarcasm is normal from everyone everyday. It usually confuses foreigners because its an extra dimension on top of language that you have to master and you have to try not to take offence to terms that are everyday but not literal.
"3 dimensional Lane merging" that cracked me up. 👍🤣
4:43 is the timecode.
it's like 3 dimensional island hopping. but on roads.
you beat me to it by a year.
Genius
@@rowansavage9371 What a line
"things fall out of the sky. it could be an asteroid, it could be a bonanza"
yup, great quote, because its true! :)
What are the odds? One risk is a natural accident, the other is somebody deserves some jail time.
Those damn forest Bonanzas always sneaking up on you!
@@peaceonearth8693 It depends upon whether or not you are in Florida.
@@peaceonearth8693 dude thinks emergency landings constitute jailtime even tho this entire video demonstrated that it is valid and safe to land on the road. Did you even watch or are you just here to spew BS?
“Once the engine quits, the airplane belongs to the insurance company.” I LOL’d at that one. 😝
God I love this guy. He's hilarious.
I'm not even a pilot and I watch this guy ;)
" Horrible Blazing Death " .... He's REALLY hilarious
I was in the Cessna 172 in Alabama that landed on i20.that you have here in your video , I think you've shown it three times !!! it went well all things considered !no damage to plane or person ! to clear things up I did not land to pee !!! lol. it was an engine failure on base final to talladega !!! it was actually my first logged hour towards my license !! I've flown a lot and have a hi max and a piper project ,I am still going to pursue this !!! I had drank some coffee and also a bottle of water !! you can see the video by seaching Christmas miracle or plane lands on I 20. when the plane stopped I had to pee so I did !!!
Congrats on a safe landing and a good job of handling it.
jody Haynie You walked away without a scratch that’s all that matters. You know what they say. They like to die when you pull back the power. So keep that pattern nice and close so if you need to you can just cut across and still find runway or flat outfield. Why did it quit anyways, carb ice?
I doubt he was up high enough for the carb to begin icing up, as he himself said it was on his first hour of licensed flying. @@drizler
Alex Hendel Oh contrair old boy. Altitude has nothing to do with it. It’s all about humidity temp and dew point. Those Cessnas with carbs are cold running beasts and infamous for carb ice up to around 60F I’m told. The reason I asked was it usually involves very low power settings like slowing down to land. That’s why you ALWAYS want to use the carb heat when landing lest ye forget at that very inopportune time.
D Madej It’s true I was in the plane on interstate 20 in Alabama. Just google Christmas miracle or plane lands on I 20 and you will see me getting out of the left side of the plane walking around the back of it and then urinating on the highway
I can't believe that my hardest laughter didn't come from some streams TV show or movie, but from the driest sarcasm I've ever witnessed anywhere. "...while Triple-A tries to figure out how to tow a Mooney". You sir, have created a memory with this lecture.
This was the funniest av web video to date, even just the motorcycle driving by when everyone had to wait
The only thing worse than ''child on board'' is a pictogram family...
A baby on board placard?
"Now people will stop intentionally ramming into our car from behind." -- Marge Simpson.
ATC says to make straight in.
If you see one of those go full kamikaze
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The best stick figure family decal
"You won't be needing this one anymore. . ."
The USA is even more like GTA than I thought.
I mean, I'm pretty sure you can land on a road in europe during an emergency....
Alabama and Florida are, without a doubt.
100%. Especially florida.
I had an interesting PPL instructor back in 1970. As part of power loss training he’d pull power at seemingly random moments, nothing unusual about that.
But this day we departed LGA heading west to Lincoln Park airport. Roughly halfway between Teterboro and Newark is where he simmed loss of power. Teterboro was very tempting but looked a bit too far. Newark was even further away. We were directing over the Meadowlands south of Route 3. Altitude was 2000 feet or less with no farm land or suitable parkland in sight.
I then had a feeling of you have to be joking, right? No joke, my only option was the New Jersey Turnpike.
While doing the requisite restart attempts, I set up an approach to the southbound lanes. He said to continue. Normally we’d go down to 50 feet or so but today he said go ahead and give it a light touch and go.
The catch to the story is this was shortly before the western spur opened in 1970. It was a Sunday, no construction workers around, the road was newly paved and marked. Signs and other obstructions were not yet in place. It sure looked like a long clear runway to both of us.
Frankly it was wider than Lincoln Park which was a very narrow gravel strip at the time.
I still travel on the NJT but in the customary manner alongside annoying earthbound traffic.
The Hudson sounds better to me
Actually touching down seems like taking it too far.
"Do the noble thing and impale yourself on a pine tree!😂. "Could be an asteroid, could be a Bonanza". This was a great mix of good information and humor. Love the animations!
2:50 "Avoid the Pennsylvania Turnpike" is pretty good advice if you are in a car, too.
As a child, my family drove that full stretch of road end to end, several times a year for the holidays. It was constantly under construction at least as early as 1993 and they've never finished.
I love the humor in these edu-torials. XD
Something that every pilot should always have at the forefront of their mind is what to do in an emergency: Aviate. Navigate. Communicate. As soon as you declare an emergency, the rulebook goes flying out the window along with whatever just broke on your aircraft. Do what must be done to win the now losing battle against gravity and come out alive. Nobody ever died from all the paperwork involved dealing with the FAA, NTSB, and insurance adjusters after an incident or accident. Unless you somehow get a papercut that gets infected with a super aggressive VRSA strain, then you're boned.
(Quick critique: the level mixing between the added sound effects and your voiceover was so out of wack it was hard to hear what you were saying at times.)
@Calyo Delphi. You forgot to mention Extricate, and Urinate. If you have successfully avoided the Disintegrate part of things, and are then faced with the Explicate for your part in the mishap, then the rules are Fabricate, Fabricate, and Fabricate.
"Nobody ever died from all the paperwork..." James Inhofe nearly did. Just ask him.
"you sign up for risk when you leave the house. Sometimes stuff falls out of the sky. could be an asteroid, could be a Bonanza."
Thank you Paul for doing such a good job at these. I learn a lot and it even brightens up my day.
I'm not too worried about the damage my one ton aluminum kite might pose to a 3 ton steel box
"A smashing success" said with a straight face. Definitely worth a strong chuckle. . .
I am a private pilot, been flying 35 years, 172s and pa28-181s. I luv your videos. Short, informative, and lots of sarcastic humor. Keep ‘em coming, I’ll be watching.
The soccer mom in the SUV reaction would totally be me. 😂😂😂
Thanks for this Paul et al. I'd say it's more reporting too. All those dash cams and phones...
When I gamed this one out years ago, I figured the best bet would be to come in with plenty of vector. Get low over traffic from behind, even while overtaking rapidly, so everyone can see you. Then it's last notch of flaps when over your best gap and you're scrubbing the last of the energy off and possibly going backwards over oblivious cars, descending into the gap. Going from faster than traffic to slower. All the while there is spare energy to do stuff, including getting away from the road if it proves too dodgy.
I like that line about how the insurance company owns the plane from the moment the engine fails. In drills I say, "F$@% the Cessna!" at that point, to reinforce that trying to save the aircraft is wrong - only the people matter.
These videos are the best. Full of useful information, funny, no fluff, and the delivery from Paul Bertorelli is spectacular. Thank you
"Once the engine quits, the plane belongs to the insurance company" - I don't fly but that's a great quote
That was quite informative and funny, this is how perfect education looks like.
Paul: My "bestest"-and-favoritest"-and-"funnest" memories of riding in the car during my childhood was the "honor" of getting to lie on my back in the back window sill of the back seat area....at NIGHT, no less..... and watched the stars. Just a great sense of humor. Keep it up!
Hahaha. "Horrible blazing death".
Best gas around
That was great! 🤣😂
In a previous one on forced landings the options included a bunch of lawyers' children...
Gasoline you can trust... to explode!
Animators with a sense of humor!
I witnessed a night time road landing just outside of Tampa during the summer of 2016. From where I first saw him, to where he finally stopped, he managed to avoid 4 sets of power wires crossing the road. No injuries or damage to property. The plane was towed to a bowling alley where it sat for 2 to 3 days if I remember right. It was almost comical to see it anchored down on the side of the road during my commute.
Your informational and edutainment videos are pure gold. Your delivery and speaking are exceptional. I hope to see more of your videos this year. Thank you very much.
"Baby on board"? Naw. We need one of those caution signs that reads "Tail Gunner On Board".
Paul, thank You for this video! As always, your thorough discussions give us a lot to think about!
I have just recently happened onto this channel, while watching other flight videos on TH-cam. And man, I'd love to have this fella as my instructor. Speaks plainly, relates things well, and a personable manner about him. Quality content, great work.
Since you posted your video... I had two friends involved in aircraft accidents.... one died last Saturday from overshooting his base to final and spun it into the ground over Whidby Island Washington... the second happened last Sunday. Engine failure on early downwind and took several large trees in a church property over the Jefferson County over the north end of the peninsula within WashingtonState. . Hitting several large trees and ripping the right wing off and totally destroying the aircraft... only a punctured left hand. He counts his blessings since he still is 87 years old... go figure...?? Proof... count your blessings when you can...
I landed on a highway back in the '70s. Route 495 in Merrimack NH. At night! Glided in to a "downwind", observed the headlights blinking out as they passed under overpasses. Did a "base leg" by one overpass, hoping to get down before the next. Flared out over the top of an 18 wheeler tractor trailer truck, and "stall flared" it right in front of the driver. He applied the brakes. Almost rolled to a stop before the right wing struck a vehicle in the right lane. After impact, still had the momentum to roll into the breakdown lane and came to a stop. Minor damage to the right wing and left undercarriage (that folded under the side load). Everyone walked away whole. Whew!
Paul Bertorelli loves to be silly
With tongue wedged firmly in cheek ,
His humor is not for the weak
Serious, excellent information and humorous to boot! Paul does a stellar job on these videos, Thank You
Excellent Paul! Very informative and love your humor and wit!
This video is a smashing success! Great writing + diverse clips + hilarious art + the always witty presentation = a don’t miss educational pilot video! Thank you.
Hey Paul! Well, that was just brilliant. Not only did you offer lots of useful info (thanks!) but all those animations and actual scenes …my goodness, how long did this video take to assemble, green screen work and all? WOW! I don't expect a response but it was beautiful and superbly done. Great work, Paul!
Duh... fly high or fly helicopters. Another great video PAUL... for the record, the only time you have too much fuel on board is when the aircraft is on fire...
...or when you're about to overrun the runway because your plane is too heavy
or in warthunder
Thanks, best laugh today.
Robert Kaindl TRUE-&FUNNY
Subscribed - Congratulations on 100K. Very professional feel to your output. Excellent.
Great video, I agree with the others about the humor.
On the history of road landings, a flight instructor told me of one of his students who made one in the 1950's. His engine quit and he looked at the ground and saw....the New Jersey Turnpike! Why he thought that was better than the then-rural environment it was going through I don't know. Anyway he lined up on the lanes going in his direction, flew over an overpass, then settled more or less gracefully onto the smooth, wide pavement. Then he saw a sign...."SERVICE AREA KEEP RIGHT". So he steered onto the off-ramp and his momentum carried him into the parking lot. He shut down the master switch (still on from sending the distress call) and went into the restaurant. Well, those of us who've travelled the Turnpike in the old days know they had restaurants in the service areas (Howard Johnson's in my time) and they even served liquor. So he ordered himself a tall one and drank most of it by the time the FAA came to debrief him and, you guessed it, they cited him for flying under the influence. He explained that he was stone cold sober till he walked into the restaurant and eventually the FAA agreed and he was exonerated. A happy ending!
Great video. I have only seen one airplane land on the interstate and that was south of Atlanta GA. When I go back to flying it will be a gyrocopter this time. Landings are much softer when the engine fails and the landing area is much, much shorter.
You mix in the perfect amount of humor with your awesomely informative videos. you make me laugh and teach me. Love it :)
I love these editorials. I’m binging all of them right now.
this was informative and educational. Great that it included just the right amount of humor.
I watched your videos for the first time. Not only did I feel I learned something useful. I had a great laugh at the same time. You gained a new subscriber.
Great video, really enjoyed your informative down to earth advice
James Franklin I see what you did there :)
It's like AOPA with a sense of humor and without the fake smiles, awkward host exchanges, and endless pandering to their audience out of abject terror that *someone* might be offended.
During my check ride, the DPE asked me out of the blue if I was going to land on a roadway, would I land with or against traffic. I thought he was joking. I couldn't imagine anyone who has driven more than 5 minutes on US roads would trust their life to other drivers paying attention to the road in front of them - much less the sky.
Love the bit at the End of the video. Awesome as always
Three dimensional lane merging might be the best thing I’ve heard today.
Well played.
Hahhh! Great presentation. I actually had never considered the wind direction on an emergency landing on the highway! Thank You!
Wind direction has to be a VERY minor consideration. Landing with traffic is THE major consideration for highway landings... That may eliminate 2 lane roads with traffic moving in opposite directions. Other than that wires/over passes, the volume of traffic (in the lanes you plan to use) tunnels, etc. may foreclose the option for a road landing.
I'm sitting on the toilet while watching this, and when I saw the candy shirt, I laughed so hard that, well, I'll stop here.
Don't blow an O ring because of youtube :D
New year. New intro. I like it!
HAHAHA! I'm from a different generation, but also stood up in the front bench seat of a new '76 Torino. Used to sleep in the rear deck of that thing too on long road trips. Like sleeping in a greenhouse. :)
Great video. Up here in MA, there are wires EVERYWHERE, so a major highway would be your best bet in an emergency. Don't count on anyone seeing you, though, even if you land right in front of them ... 😁 Great video, as they ALL are on this channel. 👍👍
I'm 35 now, I was seven when my parents decided I needed siblings. My parents mostly let me bounce around the car as I liked as long as I didn't bug them while driving. However the younger kids had to buckle up. This lead to these crazy incidents where my sister would take her seat belt off, dad would slam on the brakes and we would both go flying. My dad would yell at my sister for not wearing her belt and ask me if I was okay. I didn't realize how funny it was until a few years ago.
Hell there were three trips to central Utah from Portland OR where I rode in the back of a pickup with a canopy or in a lawn chair in the very back of the van.
@@dragthatsht - The good ol' days! :)
That was very meticulously detailed and informative. Gonna try to this tomor !!!!!
Your videos are fantastic. Thank you so much for being amazing!!! You’re a credit to society and the human species.
That pic of the yellow piper arrow in the beginning is from when they had engine trouble on take off at my old flight school in Ogden, ut.
The pilot did a great job of landing on I-15, and only just clipping a car with the landing gear on the way down.
Luckily the highway is basically straight off of runway 17.
And sometime after that, I just saw that the plane had mechanical issues again, crashing into a billboard while trying to land on I-15, and leading to injuries and the plane being totaled.
Fortunately I only ever flew in it twice before I moved away.
I love the deadpan sense of humor man. It got me to subscribe.
OMG! That was hilarious - well the humour, not subject matter. Thanks Paul! Another great one!
These are so good. Funny, informative and well written.
Ahhh the Sgt. Schulz clip had me rolling
God I love these videos
me *a trainee with less than 1 hour of total time* : I should practice on flight simulator
AVweb: HERES HOW TO LAND ON THE HIGHWAY
Thank you for the most humorous insights. Teaching with humor works for me. ~ your neighbor.
As a future private pilot, I enjoy both the lessons and humor in these videos. Thank you!
Hello Paul keep doing this type of video/hangar flying, I enjoy thanks. Saludos
Paul these videos and this one especially (I am 57 going on 13 when it comes to silly graphics and this vid was made for me, it seems) are just terrific and I've just subscribed. I also just realized we met once back in 1992 give or take a year, during a fly-in to the Bahamas. Our group rented boats. The organizer was an Air Force pilot whose name escapes me at the moment. There was a couple in a C-172, and I was the guy with the Aerostar. I didn't have a long flight ...I lived in Ft. Lauderdale lol. Enough of story time--it's nice to reconnect once again through aviation.
This video is a "smashing success". I love this guy's sense of humor, including the black T-shirt at the end. The stoic face just multiplies it.
This dude.... this man has helped me pull through the tough times
Great video, superb animation, spot-on aviation advice, perfect delivery. Fix the audio levels and reflected glare from your glasses and it’s a 10 out of 10.
I fell like an anomaly, I'm 21 and not only know about hogan's heros, but I love it!
You missed the most important thing when landing on a road, please make sure always use your turn signal when changing lanes.
In Flatlorida, we don't use turn signals...
Well just put a BMW sticker on your Cessna and you dont need to use them
I thought you were always supposed to fly with your flashers on, no?
Paul's humor is just the best
I'm glad to hear the same conclusions from another pilot. I used to think about this a lot when I flew in Atlanta.
As someone who landed on an interstate personally I love this video.
Just blend in with the crowd. I did that after my instructor and I landed a float plane on the hood of a car. After we stepped out, my instructor left to call the owner. I was left holding the bag as cops, rescue crews, etc, surrounded the crash sight, so I just blended into the crowd until he returned.
Thanks Paul...I'm not a pilot yet but will use this a part of my learning library!
This video should have way more views! Very cool and informative video!
Awesome video, loved it. I also want that t-shirt!
Great content and really funny. Good job Paul!
I seem to recall leaning out the window as well... cool videos, Thanks!
I almost clicked away, but was pleasantly surprised at the tale at the end.
I love Paul's humor. My favorite will always be, "The Waco is $400,000, which is a lot. But just don't send the kids to college they'll just disappoint you anyway."
Having landed on a highway AT night because my O-470 seized I appreciate Paul's comments. FWIW, his scpeel about landing on the median when it's invisible in darkness is, IMHO, very bad advice unless traffic is literally bumper to bumper and there are NO better options. Yes, it might be better than (crash) landing in the totally black landscape somewhere, or into lotsa lighted (and unlighted) structures (homes, multi story buildings, commercial buildings, gas stations... but...). I like to look at satillite images AND topog maps for routes I might fly at night (or in IMC). When I made my black hole night landing I knew surval would be 'iffy' in the median or in the black because of cliffs, ravines, etc. With respect to piston engines in SE PE FW aircraft it's absolutely true that "two is one, but ONE becomes NONE" (for our solo mio engines) at the least convenient times!
FWIW, best glide for SE aircraft is only a bit faster than highway speeds. Do your own calculations: Multiply mph x 1.15 to convert to knots and see for yourself what your plane will do. Just be sure to convert your indicated airspeed to true airspeed. TAS for both Vs and Vso are generally well below highway speeds with a stock wing. And maybe those critical 'V' speeds with STOL could even close to the 35 mph speed limit on city streets. You can also use your GPS in calm conditions and figure out just what those 'V' speeds really are. Indicated airspeed is notoriously off at the low end of the IAS dial... true with both glass and stean gauge cockpits. Land WITH traffic and (as Paul suggests) slip to make small instant corrections in airspeed/ground speed. In my night highway landing I delayed dropping flaps 'til it was too late to deploy 'en (it would've added unwanted complexity to my first night precision landing in traffic as I shoe horned my C182 between a semi & an SUV). If flying a retrac don't wait TOO long before dropping the gear (if you decide on a wheel landing). Do you know EXACTLY how many SECONDS are required from the moment you move your cocpit gear toggle to "down" to 'down & LOCKED' wheels? I know the former owner of a very nice C210 who misjudged the cycle time by 5 sec or less. No one was injured [good] when his left main gear collapsed and spun the plane into the tree filled median. However, had the RIGHT gear collapsed he would have spun into traffic coming from behind. Like my habit of watching for and tracking potential off airport landing areas, I watch roads & highways for those 'I NEED IT NOW' moments. Another "FWIW": While aircraft piston engines are relatively reliable (and turbine engines are 'very' reliable) ALL engines may fail. Not all fuel issues are because the tank was empty. Lots of fuel starvation events happen every year. Carb ice causes loss of power many times each year. So does intake icing for injected engines. Even electrical failures can kill engines. The club of pilots who have experience loss of power is surprisingly large.
Yep, medians are not very often smooth or even level.
"I gotta see the candy first, then I get in the van"... OMG.. that's exactly right! :o On the topic, I believe Alaska has "share the road" laws for AC, as AC use the roads allot there, including fuel stops. I believe I seen something about it in a bush flying training vid for Alaska some years ago anyway.
This has to be the funniest video you've done, Paul! (Hogan's Heros is one of my favorite shows...LOVE Schultz!!)
I saw the thumbnail and I thought the title was "How to Crash Land An Airplane On A Freeway With Nothing But a Potato!"
You just have to wait until the last second, and throw that mf potato at the ground with enough force to make you airborne again!
@@AlexandarHullRichter hahahahahahahahahahahaha
well that's essentially all you have in your plane once the engine quits lol
Love AVWeb great sense of humour. From a fan in Qld Australia
Very practical advice. Good work
Just make sure you land on the other side of the road....
@@GSimpsonOAM Sooo, planes fly upside down, down under , right?
Great information to know if I ever find myself in any of these situations.
A good information and a few good chuckles. Thank you. 😎
Although humorously alluded to in the video, I'd like to state it directly: The vast majority of drivers have exactly zero experience handling a car at its performance limits. Expect people to freeze up or skid out. Ever see skid marks that curve off to the side of the highway? Those are usually because someone tried to brake and swerve at the same time, increasing their braking distance and decreasing their turn rate. Low closing speed is important.
Oh, and clear the road as fast as safely possible. That goes for car breakdowns/collisions too. Just because your vehicle can be clearly seen from a long ways off does not mean no one will drive straight into it.
Well done video, finally settling the "with traffic" or "against traffic" argument!
Einstein's theory of Relativity would say it's always better to rear end a moving car than hit a stationary one head on
Our family had a succession of Hillman Imp cars when I was very young. These small UK cars had a rear engine with a parcel shelf above it but down behind the rear seat which was just big enough for me to climb into with a blanket and sleep. Toasty!
Another great video sprinkled with humor in places to keep you interested and to drive home some points. Tribute to John Banner AKA Sgt. Hans Schultz of Hogan's Heroes was funny and made a dramatic point.
Great video...thanks for the advice .
Love to watch your videos. Thanks!
Nice Job ! Especially THE BABY ON BOARD part ! The landings will happen no matter what. What goes up MUST COME DOWN !
Paul , you need to be in more videos :) Please anchor some of those AOPA Live newscasts!
Awesome video! It would be great for someone to take this topic one step further and talk about highway landings at night, and what visual clues will help you pick the ideal stretch of road when all you see is headlights/taillights.
I only ever use “Horrible Blazing Death” gasoline... Paul, you are hilarious!