P-51 Engine Out, Off-Airport Landing - clip 

Yeah wt has some odd mechanics but ive pulled this off before in the game

Explosion crashes happen a lot more often with the new game engine update. In the old engine you could crash land a plane relatively easily.

Bro should’ve straitened out before hitting

Press J to leave your aircraft (15)

@@jandajanda2242 just lightly tapping a tree will make you explode. Once I skipped across the airfield because my gear was shot out and my nose just barely touched a tree and then I exploded in a ball of flame and I just thought to myself "yup thats warthunder for ya"

wow! saw this video about a year ago and wasn't expecting to hear this :)

Thats what I wanted to know

@@jiyushugi1085 your comment has absolutely nothing to do with mine. I just wanted to know the status of the bird. I've seen planes run out of gas, that wasn't what was happening here. Fellow pilot here who regularly works with Miss America, Sweet & Lovely and Little Rebel. They restored this one and its flying again.

@@Radiogirl1931 From the AAIB report :- Conclusion At the time of publication of this report, the aircraft was being returned to the overhaul facility in the USA for investigation and repair. The cause of the engine stopping was not known, but based upon the reported symptoms, the maintenance agency suspected it to be carburettor related. The pilot’s recognition of the need to make a forced landing and configuring the aircraft in time for the landing ensured a successful outcome. © Crown copyright 2017

@@jiyushugi1085 read ZD reply. try not to speculate. We had a guy starve a plane of fuel a few weeks ago, very different behavior there.

That was my initial thought too. That he must have hit something and the aircraft went end over end

I thought the plane snapped in half

same

Thought he was gonna eject.

Me too the later Foote made me smile

Since he was ok this is SO FUNNY. I noticed that too. After surviving that I would have not known what the hell to do either.

1. Can you read this? Congratulations you've survived the plane crash.

Lol no shit

set trousers - BROWN "check"

@@pscassidy Lol! Best checklist ever.

Simply a professional pilot. Zero panic. Calmly puts in on the deck and goes through his mental checklist after touchdown. Reported his situation and lived. Excellent

@@TheWopper78 that is the best thing that can be done in accidents. Cause things go south as soon as panicking happens.

Well said.....only ever flown a microlight but I bet as soon as the power cuts these warbirds drop like a brick....no time to mess around.

I think criticism is allowed and constructive criticism is better. I also think his skills and experience as a pilot are impressive and valued as well. It's hard to say what the right move is here. It comes down to decision making more than stick and rudder skills. Should he have continued on to the airport after the first sign of trouble or committed to an alternate landing site. Early commitment to an alternate might have resulted in a better outcome (i.e. not rolling out of a 15-20 degree bank 50 feet from the ground with trees dead ahead). That being said, I probably would have made the same decision as him and I'm also not a P-51 pilot lol.

He also flies spitfires, he is a very skilled pilot

...is a good landing. :-)

Not if you're in a boat

@@SimboSays what a fuck is wrong with you

@@Cesko_Plny_Fialovejch_Zmrdu Something called a joke (geee u must be fun at parties huh?)

Another happy landing -Master, obi wan kenobi

Congrats on doing it correctly. :-)

Ray Ackley About 2-3 years ago there was a plane cash in my city. A small plane with 2 people in it had an engine failure right after takeoff. The pilot had the choice to land on a highway (potentially risking the life of other people) or to do a 180 turn and try to get back on the runway. He tried to turn the plane around but the plane was already too slow. And unfortunately he had nowhere to go now because below him was a busy junction and with stores and apartments next to it. The plane was quickly going down and he decided to stear the plane with almost a nosedive into a storage depot. The plane immediately exploded and the building burned down. The pilot and the passenger died but no one else was injured because luckily nobody was in there. In this situation he was still able to make the rational decision to get the plane down in the least dangerous way for the people on the ground. The worst part of this was when I found out that the pilot was the dad of one of my classmates :/

Sometimes there are no good options. That said, a small aircraft weighs a good deal less than most cars do, and a highway with the flow of traffic isn't necessarily a bad option when you have few (or no) other options available. A Cessna 172 (for example) at touchdown speed is roughly highway speed or slower.

Ray Ackley I just watched a few videos about this crash and there are hanging streetlights over that highway... I never realized that or maybe they removed them by now because I drive almost daily on this road :P So the highway wasn't an option at all. This guy was an experienced airline pilot so I'm sure he was aware how to minimize damage in that situation. I always imagine how it would be like for someone in such a situation where you know you are going to die and still have the choice to choose a building you wanna crash into....

Ray Ackley You mention landing speed and weight, but I think when you take into account overhead wires, lighting poles, guardrails,fences, overpasses and automobiles traveling in both directions with occupants that could become your victims, the highway becomes your last option.

steveo1kinevo Maybe they should make a video on the safety of FlyNYON. You could be in it since you are a former Coast Guardsman with very recent water egress training. A decent person with those credentials would turn down shilling for such an operation. I know this channel would have to pay you quite a sum since you are only in this for the RU-vid money and the sponsorship cash no matter how dangerous the people giving you that cash are.

Seriously?

Muahahahahah!

When low power and engine dying; Dont forget to reject a right turn short approach to the field, go instead to a 400 feet agl downwind leg, reject another needed short approach, then extend the gear and flaps on a low turn, land short, and cause over one million dollars in damages to a WW2 relic with so many pilot errors. Yes, I can learn a lot of how not to do emerg landings on any single engine power down situation.

He was talking to the tower, could ask for a downwind landing and avoid that damage. But that needed a stronger pilot.

Agreed. He even admitted that lowering the gear while been in a drag situation, turning and runway still not made was dumb. I post here againts guys praising him while he unpraises himself. Pansy PIlot are Idiot suckers.

I'm no pilot but I agree. I always thought as long as the engine is partially running it would be better then not running. Guess I was wrong there. I've thought about getting my pilots lisance but not sure yet.

We all know that the people that say they would’ve done it differently either have never been in that situation, which good for them or they’re just people trying and failing to look cool in front of others

@R Diaz Foolish comment. Chill.

One of my biggest hopes if I ever have a serious EP is to totally sound calm on the radios. I mean that. If I sound calm it means I am thinking clearly.

I saw a video a while back. A 17 year old girl was going through flight school. After she took off on her first solo trip, her nose gear was stuck half way open. The tower called her instructor to the tower. Then the tower informer of her situation. She got a little nervous at first but was calm through the whole ordeal and made a perfect emergency landing.

I got a question, why was the gear first lowered and then raised up again when he landed in the field?

@@hollowman2451 interesting. Thanks for the answer :) the question has been in my mind for quite some time

Why did he have a higher sink rate than planes on RU-vid making relatively gentle no-engine landings?

@@vampiresforesl Were these other planes P-51s? The P-51 flies like a brick with no engine. They aren't a glider. If he would have tried to hold it back too much it could have tip stalled and that would have been all she wrote. A lot of pilots were killed during WW2 just learning to fly the P-51 for exactly that reason. I've heard it said that more died in training accidents than in combat, but I don't know the validity of that statement.

Gear up???

@@cheetahfish "I've heard it said that more died in training accidents than in combat" Yes, that's true in general, not just for the P-51.

debriefing and learning from others mistakes is what keeps the next crashing pilot safer than the previous pilots. Thank goodness we live in an age of videos and RU-vid were I can learn and be that arm chair pilot. Remember, many of those "arm chair" pilots are also, real pilots......

Agreed. But some commenters here (guy below who refers to the pilot as a chump) feel the pilot's errors are inexcusable. I'm fortunate enough not to have experienced an engine failure of any kind in a single engine (other than simulated, of course). But I'd be thrilled if I handled it as well as this pilot and if I were to walk away from the incident. Learning from other's mistakes and one's own is critical to safety. But I'm not going to call a pilot out who survived a forced landing. It's a shame the P-51 suffered so much damage.

The reality is, those people are the most dangerous people to ever fly with. They actually believe that they would have done a better job. The arrogance and ignorance behind such a mindset is absolutely incredible. The fact that they believe that and are confident enough in it to post such ridiculous comments means that they aren't actually looking for a way to learn from it. I hate people like that. A few year ago, I was almost killed (along with a kid) by an instructor who deliberately flew partial panel into IMC, had me fly while he fiddled with his iPad (it was my first flight after my solo). At least he managed to get control of it some time after we ended up in a spiral. People who do that type of thing are not capable of understanding that they are vulnerable to making the same exact mistakes that other people are.

So if you were thinking as seen the video, "hey, do a short approach!! No, dont go far away - " that is bad to say' according to these suckas above. Hey, That is what caused the crash. If you think rightwhile watching the video, you are wrong? If you say, like the pilot said in 02:17 that he did A DUMB THING by dropping the gear too early when too low, you are wrong??? That is BS. Only a sucka clod Pansy Pilot will say this is a good approach and "landing". Only suckers will say was a good decision-making crash. Im a CFI of Bush Pilots, with 8 engine failures, 4 on take off. Landed them all. No accidents (yet).

CFITOMAHAWK2 ok so 20k $ 400lb at 35kt = 2million$ 7000lb at 100kt...??

JimsEquipmentShed i think in a situation like this, gaining altitude on the way to land, while u have power, would help. Added altitude=more glide time. But thats just my thoughts, and i dont have any actual flight XP...just simulator, so id like to know if im wrong and why so i can fix my thinking.

I would agree, I'm strictly right seat, but in my humble opinion, there is no substitute for extra time and altitude. Anyone I have ever flown with has always been on the look out for a place to land from the time they took off, until the time they get to their actual destination.

that's what gets 90% of pilots killed, if you got an engine failure (no thrust or even idle thrust) in down-wind don't go for a short final just land the plane on a field. Many think they can make it and end up crashing the plane. It's not about trying to do see if you can make it by going for it and then deciding 8 seconds before impact oh shit I can't make it and then try to change course to land in a field which cause you to stall because you can no longer trade altitude for speed. You have to be conservative, this pilot thought oh maybe I can make it instead of I'm going to risk killing myself I should just safely land here. I'm not saying it's easy but it's something your instructor should have taught you.

St T. It wasn’t a failure until the point of no return though. It proper reaction to an intermittent failure I was referring to. When you are looking down the dark tunnel “willing it” to stay running.

Very much dependent on circumstances on the day. My instructor taught me: If you have a sure field ahead and very few other options, and an engine that's coming back to life intermittently, go for the field in front of you and assume a dead engine at that point, because of the unreliability and the certainty of your good field. However.... If you have a stuttering engine and a string of excellent field options ahead all the way back to the airfield AND you can maintain sufficient height, or at least slow your descent enough with the stuttering engine - then limping back to the airfield for a smooth tarmac touchdown MAY also be a perfectly good and viable option, because if it goes pear shaped, you'll have a good field in front of you at any time. Especially in the rural parts of the UK, you can have a long succession of perfect fields that COULD lead you home perfectly safely to that sweet sweet tarmac. In this instance, his last second turn back to the right was absolutely the best decision, as he didn't have the height or energy for finals, you could see the rapid descent rate. He kept the aircraft flying level for a controlled impact and walked away - Job done. The plane was also repaired I believe. That's a double win.

longer video on this channel states being rebuilt and should be flight worthy in 1 month (at time of recording)

Tell that to the pilots on the next flight that you take on airliners. Hey, tell them to put a Flight attendant to land it while the pilots tell them how to do it. Any crash landing is a good landing. For the idiot is.

outwiththem hey bud if you can walk away from a crash you're doing good.

Bill Knoop I believe the mustang was repairable after this, too

Many idiots have walked away from a crash, with a big debt, and an FAA action for been stupid clods.

outwiththem im having a hard time following what you're trying to say here ...

imagine reading the tips XD

reason for putting gear up ? i assume its because it can catch on things and flip the plane if its not a smooth surface .. sounds smart to just ground it and keep flying it while landing letting it slow as much as possible taking away speed.

+Lua Hofferberth The plane was shipped out to a repair shop to determine the cause and start repairs. They were thinking a carb issue. I think the shop already had an extra pair of wings ready to go.