How does one land upside down following a PT3?
We had an accident at Siskiyou County a few years back that looked a lot like the posted photo. Wind was blowing a good 40 knots direct crosswind to the N-S runway, so the pilot wisely decided to land into the wind on a taxiway. GPS trace showed touched down at 40 ground speed which would have been about 80 IAS!
Probably flying something like 70 for potential wind-shear, he turned final and felt the ground wasn't going by as fast as it usually did, so he sped up! Anyway, he caught a wing tip shortly after touch down and did a full blown flying ground-loop. Boom broke during the first 90 degrees, but it wasn't over. Left wing was stopped, but the right wing was accelerating. This resulted in a rolling-turning maneuver that left the ship upside down with a relatively undamaged wing on top of the inverted fuselage. Pilot is still with us with nothing more than a broken foot!
JJ
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