Akron Ohio Plane Crash

[Mackdog]

I don't know if anyone on here has followed the story of the Execuflight Hawker 25 crash near Akron, Ohio yesterday, but it was near where I live in Ohio and just seems like an unusual situation as no one knows yet what exactly happened. I know there are some pilots here on the forum that may be able to interject..the plane was on approach to Akron Canton airport in Akron, Ohio when it started to head towards the ground about a couple miles from the runway. Witnesses heard a jet engine revving up and then the sound of the impact as the jet hit an apartment building. There were 9 people on board including the pilot and co-pilot, no one survived. The NTSB and FAA are still investigating and I suspect the cause may be determined if the black boxes can be recovered.

Here is the flightaware page for the flight.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/EFT1526

Here is the news report from cnn.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/us/akron-ohio-plane-crash/index.html

The coordinates of the crash site are 41 degrees 3 minutes and 17.41 seconds north, and 81 degrees 25 minutes and 23.64 seconds west.

 

[vonmazur]

I don't know if anyone on here has followed the story of the Execuflight Hawker 25 crash near Akron, Ohio yesterday, but it was near where I live in Ohio and just seems like an unusual situation as no one knows yet what exactly happened. I know there are some pilots here on the forum that may be able to interject..the plane was on approach to Akron Canton airport in Akron, Ohio when it started to head towards the ground about a couple miles from the runway. Witnesses heard a jet engine revving up and then the sound of the impact as the jet hit an apartment building. There were 9 people on board including the pilot and co-pilot, no one survived. The NTSB and FAA are still investigating and I suspect the cause may be determined if the black boxes can be recovered.

Here is the flightaware page for the flight.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/EFT1526

Here is the news report from cnn.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/us/akron-ohio-plane-crash/index.html

The coordinates of the crash site are 41 degrees 3 minutes and 17.41 seconds north, and 81 degrees 25 minutes and 23.64 seconds west.

As a pilot, I think he got a little too low on approach. This happens more than one might think, and sometimes there is no time for the engines to rev up and avoid hitting something. Turbine engines do not have instant power like the old recips did, and this makes mistakes fatal sometimes..

 

[David Coulter]

The flight was approaching Akron-Fulton KAKR, not Akron-Canton KCAK. Sounds similar to the Thurman Munson crash in 79 at KCAK. The story around the flight school at KCAK was that Munson had very little time in a jet powered aircraft and didn't appreciate the lag between applying power and getting airspeed. In the Execuflight crash you have to wonder what the flight deck workload was like and if there was a loss of focus on glide path.

Munson had been flying for over a year and purchased a Cessna Citation I/SP jet so he could fly home to his family in Canton on off-days. On August 2, 1979, he was practicing takeoffs and landings at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport with friend Jerry Anderson and flight instructor Dave Hall.[20] On the fourth touch-and-go landing, Munson allowed the aircraft to sink too low before increasing engine power, causing the jet to clip a tree and fall short of the runway. The plane then hit a tree stump and burst into flames [21] on Greensburg Rd., 870 feet short of runway 19.[22][23]

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[sharpnfuzzy]

The moment of impact was caught on surveillance video. It appears that the aircraft stalled.

http://q13fox.com/2015/11/11/surveillance-video-shows-moment-plane-crashed-into-ohio-apartment-complex-9-dead/

 

[vonmazur]

Got too low, applied power, stalled and crashed, is what it looks like to me..