Well i wont forget that weekend in a hurry

We went to the beech this weekend. Were sat in our usual spot when at 4 pm a light aircraft thought it good to do acrobatics over the Atlantic right in front of us.

He did rolls and turns, then decided to try the death slide thing where they go high and coming plunging back to earth and pull out of it.

Unfortunatley the pilot didnt pull out quick enough and spirralled into the Ocean.

Plane on bottom of Atlantic in 26 feet of water and pilot dead, not found his body as of yet.

Our Beech patrol guy was first out there to mark the spot for coast guard, 500 yards off the beech.
When he came out he was covered in aviation fuel.

 

Was he meant to be doing these crazy acrobatic moves then?

 

No. Definatley not.
Apparently he had been doing them for 2 or 3 days and be warned about it by the aviation authoritys,police and beech patrol.

Its a good job he didnt land on the beech or there would have been much much more fatalitys.

 

Where was this at?

 

Ocean City. The bodies of 2 people have now been recovered, there thought to be 2 off duty police officers but nothing confirmed.

 

Is that at Ocean City? The reports I read about it said that the plane was in trouble which is why it was spiralling. I take it they're wrong and he was actually deliberately spiralling trying to do some amateur aerobatics?

 

Wish I'd seen this before replying below. Made it look like I was just copying you

 

You copy cat, you!

 

That's me

 

We were sat on the beech at 130th street with our umbrella blocking the wind, so only heard it spluttering and hitting the water, the people we were with there son saw it all he was sat at the Oceans edge, he said it looked liked they had been doing stunts and then got into difficulty, The same plane had been flying over all week doing loops and things apparently.

 

An RAF pilot did that over North Bay in Scarborough when I was on holiday as a kid. Must have been 82 or so. Tried doing some kind of roll and the wings clipped the sea. He didn't make it out either

 

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

My Dad drove ambulances in the Army and later civvies, he attended this disaster as a young man. He certainly saw 'action'. It haunted him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Farnborough_Airshow_DH.110_crash

 

I don't think that's the case mate. The plane was in serious trouble and the pilot did all he could to get it out to sea and away from the town, the beaches, and the people. He could have ejected and saved his own life, but he put it in to the sea knowing full well he would likely lose his life.

 

There's a clip of the ocean city crash on YouTube just see it nose dive into the sea upside down

 

It was a long time ago, so I could be wrong, but he certainly flew over two or three times doing acrobatics before the last pass. It looked kind of like a cartwheel with the wing clipping the sea. However, I was maybe 12 at the time and it was 30 years ago so not too sure and this report suggests it stalled.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=56584