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Plane crash at Kerrville TX
Twin engine Beech BE58 crashed during landing attempt near 9am (www.mysanantonio.com) Mehr...
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Looking at the accident scene photos, it appears that the aircraft came straight down, possibly in a flat spin, with little to no forward speed. Note the absence of a debris trail behind the aircraft, the terrain abruptly rising behind the aircraft with no scrape markings indicating that it was NOT in a glide, the downward failure of the outboard portions of the wings, and the fact that everything is pretty much in one place. Absence of a post-crash fire also indicates low to no fuel on board at the time of impact.
Not too sure of a spin, the rudder is dead neutral, but he hit flat as in aft of the aft cg limit flat. 58 Barons, A36 Bonanzas, Senecas, Saratogas all have that 6 seat allure with the "but you can't use the last two" caveat. At least not for large adults! The only thing in that category i would really put six adults in is a C210 or 206. And then you gotta do the math. No gas, no burn, more aft cg.
Please stop news stories that require paid subscriptions..
click on the top link. went right to story.
No fire. Was this another case of stretching fuel too far?
Express News dot Com has the report "Construction worker Rodney Simmons, 48, was starting his work day at Las Colinas subdivision near this Hill Country town when he heard a plane “struggle against the wind.”
“I looked over and watched him drop down out of the clouds,” Simmons said. “The rear end of the plane was real low, like he was trying to stay in the air. It was like he was dragging the tail end of that plane. Like he had a lot of weight in the back or something.”
The plane flew southward into the wind, Simmons said, then “banked to the right, real hard, and just flipped on over, upside down, and nose-dived to the ground.”
“I looked over and watched him drop down out of the clouds,” Simmons said. “The rear end of the plane was real low, like he was trying to stay in the air. It was like he was dragging the tail end of that plane. Like he had a lot of weight in the back or something.”
The plane flew southward into the wind, Simmons said, then “banked to the right, real hard, and just flipped on over, upside down, and nose-dived to the ground.”
