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bkthomps 06-01-2015 07:10 AM

Rv7 pilot walks away in the video, crowd can be heard clapping

Rv8 pilot did not make it based on reports

777Dave 06-01-2015 09:13 AM

ditching
 
Canopy appears to be open prior to landing.... smart!

bret 06-01-2015 09:35 AM

In the head on vid of him aproaching to ditch in the water you can see the L wing leading edge badly damaged and torn, prop stoped and broken. and he glided it in no power great aircraft control. amazing to see how well this plane flew all tore up.

Barry 06-01-2015 09:42 AM

Here are a few more videos of the accident an Luigis water landing.
It looks as though the leading edge of his left wing was badly damaged.
Perhaps that is why he made a no flap dead stick splash down.
A great bit of flying on his part as after the shock he brought the plane down very close to the shoreline as there seems so have been no one in the sea.

Apparently Luigi managed to walk away from the accident so that was good news.

http://www.youreporter.it/video_Alba...voli_coinvolti

http://www.youreporter.it/video_Air_...eo_ravvicinato

http://www.youreporter.it/video_Inci...deo_ingrandito


Barry RV6a sold France

RickWoodall 06-01-2015 01:19 PM

Yikes
 
That is horrible.
The inverted plane rolled over and into the level plane, wow thats got to be horrible sight in the windscreen with no time to react, the two planes where tangled together and dropping and miraculously the lower plane broke free, recovered, and with damage and engine out managed to ditch and even open canopy prior to touch down.... Wow, that is some great pilot work keeping your wits about you and saving your bacon.

Sad to watch but just shows you that no matter how bad, fly the plane....right to the ground.

bkthomps 06-01-2015 05:00 PM


eddieseve 06-02-2015 02:22 AM

My condolences to the family of the pilot that lost his life.

To the other members of "The Good Fellas" you have my sincerest sympathy for the loss of your friend and team member.

AirbusPilot 06-02-2015 03:00 AM

Very very sad!!!

We are flying formation aerobatics here in Chile with two more RV fellows, and watching this make us wonder if we should continue or not.

Big question is why the aircraft number one suddenly roll out of his inverted pass, at least at our team I call clear to aircraft number one to roll out of this maneuver, if he is in trouble he has to call before roll out!!!

My condolence to family and friends.

Ettore 06-04-2015 04:22 AM

Hi everyone, Luigi was released from the the hospital a couple of days ago, he's fine, at least physically speaking.

Fernando, the cause is still unknown, but for sure that wasn't the point where the upper aircraft was supposed to roll out, they were just at the beginning of the display line... Maybe a technical problem, but who knows... We have to wait for the investigation.

This is how the two aircraft look now. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quFFdjwN0jk

Snowflake 06-04-2015 07:15 AM

Ettore, thanks for that link... Is the narrator just describing what you're looking at in the video, or does he say anything that we can't already learn from the video itself?


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