Plane Crash in 1994 due to stall (Skip to 5:15 to see the crash)

Plane: Cessna 150M

Date: Saturday 30 April 1994 at 14:25 LT

Registration: N190AR

Fatalities: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2

Location: Arroyo City, Texas

(THE FOLLOWING TEXT WAS MADE BY THE NTSB ,FOUND AT https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/42225 )

Narrative:

THE PILOT HAD RENTED THE AIRPLANE AND WAS TAKING A FRIEND ON A LOCAL PERSONAL FLIGHT. VIDEO TAPE RECOVERED FROM THE AIRPLANE SHOWED THE AIRPLANE FLYING OVER OPEN FIELDS AT ABOUT 10 FEET AGL. IN THE FINAL SEGMENT OF THE TAPE, A POWER LINE CAME INTO VIEW AND THE COMMENT 'UNDER OR OVER' WAS HEARD, FOLLOWED BY 'OVER.' THE TAPE THEN SHOWED A STEEP PULL UP, FOLLOWED BY STALL WARNING ACTIVATION, A LEFT ROTATION, AND A VERTICAL VIEW OF THE GROUND UNTIL IMPACT. GROUND WITNESSES CONFIRMED THE FINAL MANEUVER. THE VIDEO SHOWED ALL ENGINE INSTRUMENTS WITHIN PARAMETERS AS LATE AS 13 SECONDS BEFORE IMPACT.

Probable Cause: THE PILOT'S INADVERTENT STALL DURING THE PULL UP. FACTORS WERE THE LOW PASS, HIS OSTENTATIOUS DISPLAY, AND HIS INABILITY TO RECOVER FROM THE STALL DUE TO INSUFFICIENT ALTITUDE.

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Inadvertent? Yet also ostentatious. If you say so. Killed his fucking friend.

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Do you mean "fuck buddy?"

I'm pretty sure the friend is encouraging the pilot to do this.

I was expecting something accidental like an engine stall or too much roll for the wing speed. This is just fucking moronic

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HIS OSTENTATIOUS DISPLAY

Damn straight.. it's illegal to fly below 500 feet, him flying at 10 feet is a death wish. Look at 4:25 he flies right through the smoke.

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