Tags for this video have been changed from 'flight instructor, emergency landing, student, engine, fail, land, florida, road' to 'flight instructor, emergency landing, student, engine, fail, land, florida, road, bleep' - edited by jwray

damn that comment was funny!

In reply to this comment by E_Nygma:
the sound of the engine stopping sounds exactly like a censor beep.

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>> ^jimnms:
He was lucky indeed. I learned during my flight training that a public road is the WORST possible place to try to land in an emergency. For one thing, roads usually have these things called power lines that run across them, but most importantly you endanger the lives of people on the ground.


"WORST"? So you would rather land...
1) on a preschool picnic
2) on a munitions factory
3) on a preschool picnic on a munitions factory

I think this guy did a good job. No injuries, no damage to the aircraft. He had a view of the road when he made his decision so he could see about traffic and power lines.

>> ^rogueWRX:
Even BETTER embed (widescreen, HQ available, LONGER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT58Di51wDk


Lol, thanks, swapped again!

Swapped the embed, thanks! This is much better now

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
Better quality embed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8dgVCJlec

>> ^cybrbeast:
Better quality embed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8dgVCJlec


Swapped the embed, thanks!

>> ^jimnms:
...they couldn't get him out of the plane, and he burned alive.


Um... thanks for sharing.

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>> ^jimnms:
As he was landing on a section of the road he'd used several times before.


Wow, is that even legal? Obviously it's fine in an emergency case like this video, but to deliberately land on a road repeatedly - don't small aircraft need to file flight plans too?

>> ^NicoleBee:
That poor cow!
What kind of plane is that? I didn't know they were still -making- biplanes during/for wwII


I don't make the news I just report it. Here is the AP article:

British pilot hits cow during emergency landing

14 hours ago

LONDON (AP) — A British pilot said he ran into an unusual hazard while making an emergency landing — a cow. Rob Wotton said he was trying to land his World War II-era Tiger Moth after the engine stalled just after takeoff southwest of London on Sept. 14. He was about to touch down in a field when the animal wandered into his way.

Video of the event on YouTube shows the brown-and-white cow being knocked to the ground by the plane's lower left wing. The two-seater was damaged but landed safely.

An accident report said the cow was "apparently uninjured."

Wotton said he might paint a cow on the plane to mark the event.

He says: "I have to say it is the first cow I have ever hit in 22 years' flying."

Tags for this video have been changed from 'qantas, jet, hole, emergency, landing' to 'qantas, jet, hole, emergency, landing, almighty crack, knew there was a hole somewhere' - edited by calvados

oh my god, i would not be able to live there. not just the noise, but imagine a sudden unexpected crosswind or some kind of unstable emergency landing and *BLAMMO* right into a building. eesh.

That was pretty damn smooth for a no-engine emergency landing. And with the pressure of not wanting to wreck a million dollar piece of machinery....oh and that whole dying thing as well.