"john smith" wrote in message
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In article wkwBf.324316$2k.72163@pd7tw1no,
"soon to be student" wrote:

A Cessna 208 Caravan crashed on Vancouver Island near the town of Port
Alberni killing the pilot and Two passangers. According to the local news
the pilot had radioed a Mayday declaring that he had an engine failure
and
was going to attempt a dead-stick landing on a logging road but he didn't
make it and the plane crashed at a 60 degree nose down attitude. The
pilot
was 25 years old. At this time I don't know how many hours he had.

60-degrees nose down indicates to me that he may have stalled it.

Or, landed in trees (which the article I read suggested). The angle after
everything stops wouldn't have much to do with the angle at which he touched
down in the tree tops.

I suspect that if he had stalled and hit solid ground at a 60 degree angle,
there would be 8 dead, not 3.

A sad event in any case.

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Geoff
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