Sault College TRAINING PLANE CRASHES, 2 taken to hospital 

UPDATE (12-APR-2024) Hello, I am currently a student attending Sault College aviation and would like to add some info for your video. The engine failure after takeoff maneuver is only demonstrated by an instructor and is never done by the student pilot themselves. I flew just prior to C-GERR and I can vouch that it was a brutal gusty day. The student suffered a broken L1 vertebrae but is up and walking and should recover 100%. Also to add, due to the aging fleet of Zlin 242's, the school is preparing to transition over to using SR20 G6 as a primary flight training aircraft. We currently have two and are expecting more to come in due time. Hopefully this can help out a little bit Thank you ----------------------------- Hey man, I'm a student at Sault College & I figured I'd give you some context for GERR's crash, if you'd like to add it to the description. When tower said "whiskey approved" that's them allowing us to do a simulated engine failure on the go. (Instead of being cleared for the option we have specific procedures so tower knows what we're gonna do) So what happened is as they were on the climb-out, the instructor pulled power & they attempted the nose-over for the simulated engine out landing. However, as this pushover (usually up to 0G) happened, the wind cut out & they stalled at roughly 50'. Both the nose & left main gear collapsed. Both student & instructor are okay although pretty banged up. We used a wheel loader & tow straps to carry it back to the hanger. If you do choose to add/paraphrase any of that, I'd like to remain anonymous. I enjoy your content, keep it up man. Option codes from our tower agreement at YAM: ALPHA: Simulated engine failure on downwind BRAVO: Engine failure on the overshoot WHISKEY: Engine failure on take-off OSCAR: Overshoot- initiated by Tower short final ROMEO: Receiver failure in aircraft- use light gun YANKEE: Power-off approach to different runway HOTEL: Low approach/Touch and go (requires extra time over runway)

Former Sault College student here. To everyone thinking the school is unsafe, no. Now I know it has been nearly 3 decades since I was there but I find it hard to believe the training has gone down hill that far from what I remember. You can't tell anything from this video, was this a good student, bad student, good instructor, bad instructor. Seriously you can't even tell if this is the first flying semester or not. Chill, after the investigation we will know more. Speculation is fine, but talking like you actually know what happened is the kind of arrogance that you hear from young pilots that never get to be old.

Hear the ELT going off in the tower as she talks

Hope any back injuries aren't too bad. Can give you trouble very long-term.

Bro got corbed

I'm just a private pilot and soon to be commercial, but it does seem like they had a very hard landing, the aircraft couldn't even taxi after that. Maybe the student cut off mixture on final or they had some bad downdraft? Honestly, if you follow your parameters the aircraft lands itself on my little experience. Hope they both have a fast recovery!

Sounds like a great learning experience. Pretty sure we all had to learn our perspective trades or jobs, sault college is by far the best flight school.

I learned 50 feet engine fails in 1994. But we used flaps 10, not gusty of course, speed at vy at 50 feet and only partial cut first few times. This CFI was stupid. You dont cut engines with such gust dropping the speed at same time... Duhh !

what was the instructor doing leading up to this?

seeing a massive increase in number of pilots simply not being capable of flying a plane and hurting themselves or worse... We need to stop letting people try and fly simply because they want to. Not everyone possess the ability to operate in a 3 dimensional space and the more we let people fly that have no business up there the more we will see this happen.

Spirit just furloughed 2,200 pilots so maybe doomsday predictions of pilot shortages are slightly overblown.

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That instructor sounded like he was maybe 13! He kinda handled it like he was, too. They just stuffed a perfectly good airplane into the runway and took a pretty significant hit. He was pretty nonchalant it seemed and not really in a "professional" tone.