A Plane Almost Crashed By My House

[[R-DEV]KingofCamelot]

So I was sitting in my living room watching some TV, when I heard a prop plane flying over. Nothing unusual really, so I ignored it. It then became evident that he was hanging around the area, whcih is kind of odd around here. What made it even weirder is it sounded to me like he was doing dives. So, after a few minutes I went outside to see what the heck was going on.

When I went outside there was a single prop plane flying quite low. I don't know anything about planes, but it looked to me like it might have been a Cessna, or something similar. I'm also not very good at judging heights, but I'll tell you this guy was low for a plane. Couldn't have been more than 500 feet up, I'd guess more like 400. Basically he wasn't that much higher up then helicopters are when they hover in the area to cover an event.

Now normally I'm not a person to get easily bothered by stuff, but this guy really had me on nerve. The reason being, he was flying over a residential neighborhood, and a golf course. The guy was doing aerial aerobatics, only 500 feet up. He was doing barrel rolls, climbing pratically straight up, and doing short dives. My mother quickly pointed out that he was insane, that if he stalled out at that height he was in trouble.

Well, this wouldn't be a good story if the idiot hadn't have screwed up. Sure enough hes doing a climb, and the guy stalls out, and his plane starts falling and spinning slightly. Honestly I was positive he was going to crash, right into someone's yard. Somehow, right as the plane was falling behind the tree line in my view, not more than 1,000 feet from my house, he manages to regain control and pull up. The guy must have been literally around 50 feet off the ground at that point. When he went behind the tree line I was just waiting for the sound of him crashing, it seemed like he was done for.

The guy pulled up, did a few circles of the area, did a weird jerky motion from left to right like someone who over turns their steering wheel all the way left and then all the way right, trying to straighten out, and then he flew off while I was on the phone with 911.

For those of you too lazy to read:
1. Crazy pilot doing aerial aerobatics around 500 feet over a residential area, including steep climbs.
2. Sure enough in one of his climbs he stalled the engine, and began to free fall. It looked like he was going to crash for sure, but he managed to save the plane around 50 feet off the ground.
3. He circled the area once or twice more, pulled a weird sharp left then sharp right turn move which looked like a drunk pilot trying to fly straight, then flew off while I was on the phone with 911 reporting the crazy pilot who almost crashed into my neighbor's house.

That is all. Was an interesting morning.

[AtlantaFalcons]

Heads up!

I get the same thing in my neighborhood actually, but they are usually higher in the air.

[Jackoboy]

having flown a cessna, i can assure you that he was bonkers.


personally, i would have gotten his tail number and reported him.

[A.J.Sawyer]

2. Sure enough in one of his climbs he stalled the engine, and began to free fall. It looked like he was going to crash for sure, but he managed to save the plane around 50 feet off the ground.

Stall turn, the most fun you can have in a plane....... EVER!

[[R-DEV]KingofCamelot]

Originally Posted by Jackoboy

having flown a cessna, i can assure you that he was bonkers.


personally, i would have gotten his tail number and reported him.

I was trying to, but it was hard to make out because its a clear sunny day out, and he was doing this all about 3 o'clock off of sun from my point of view, so there was a lot of glare. It was also difficult because he kept doing climbs and what not.

At one point he started doing a slight dive aimed right at my house, and I swear it looked like a WWII fighter doing a strafing run.

When I called the cops they managed to divert a helicopter here within 5 minutes which hovered over the area looking for the plane, but he had already flown off.

[Symplify]

We get stunt and biplanes over my town doing tricks and stuff, cool to watch for a while.

But...tricks like that at that altitude would be stupid in almost any conventional prop plane...

[eddie]

Originally Posted by [R-MOD]A.J.Sawyer

Stall turn, the most fun you can have in a plane....... EVER!

Hell yeah!

And the weird shit he was doing by the treeline would of been an engine failure check, he starts on the left hand side of the cockpit, checks carb heat, speed, fuel selector, magnetos, primer, throttle, mixture, T's and P's (temperatures and pressures), and then if he's checked all of that is correct and he's still going down, he goes into a forced landing.

That was probably all the jerking around he was doing. First he would of needed to gain a bit of height (considering he was too low under air law), select a landing point into wind and then come in for landing.

Obviously this guy got the engine working again, which is lucky or there'd be a few dead people on the news.

[RikiRude]

KoC you always have the best crazy stories!

[[R-DEV]KingofCamelot]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]RikiRude

KoC you always have the best crazy stories!

Just wait until I move into the dorms next month.

[eddie]

It's because they're not real, he's drunk.