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What the Heck Wednesday - Cockpit View Crash

This week on What the Heck Wednesday we have a video of a Tower Hobbies Edge 540 with a camera in the cockpit providing a first person view of the crash at the end.

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This week on What the Heck Wednesday we have a video of a Tower Hobbies Edge 540 with a camera in the cockpit providing a first person view of the crash at the end. The plane was humming along with the Tower .75 glow engine, but it pulls up, rolls over and heads for the ground in a hurry. The video description says the crash appears to be a loss of control on the left aileron, but all the electronics worked after the crash. It looks to me more like a stall, but who knows. It's interesting to watch the crash from the perspective of the plane though.

So what you do guys think? What the heck happened on this one?

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Old 01-05-2022, 12:12 PM
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I agree.... looks like a tip stall to me.
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Old 01-05-2022, 12:59 PM
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Stall on the turn?
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Old 01-06-2022, 02:22 PM
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pilot got disoriented I think , that sort of wing over turn followed by the aileron wobble and the limp pull on the elevator and it never looked like the plane slowed down a lot and never got commited to a course of action after losing tracking
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Old 01-06-2022, 02:32 PM
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pilot got disoriented I think , that sort of wing over turn followed by the aileron wobble and the limp pull on the elevator and it never looked like the plane slowed down a lot and never got commited to a course of action after losing tracking
I am inclined to agree, loss of orientation.

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Old 01-08-2022, 02:43 AM
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I am inclined to agree, loss of orientation.

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I 3rd that motion.
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Old 01-09-2022, 07:42 PM
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4th that, he had power.
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Old 02-01-2022, 10:00 AM
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Loose nut, on the stick. Always correcting or over correcting. Hard video to watch. Disoriented! Johnny Yuma
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