Real Pilot Story: Engine Failure in IMC

C172 can stop in less than 1,000 feet ground roll. IF YOU RAICE THE FLAPS while braking. You let it float with flaps down. Otherwise, good job. Im a CFI of bush pilots..

Great job finally a video where someone survives

Sounds like to me your engine might have locked up just before arrival at Frederick. Good job landing with that much stress.

U better just stay flying helicopters..next time the dude that canceled your ifr will cancel ur uber eats order also.he loves cancelling stuff

Nice work man. I’m glad you are ok.

Great job, Boychik!

From this and other ASI videos I’ve learned the importance of properly informing ATC of an emergency situation without assuming that ATC is a pilot or a very seasoned controller: Dump the technical jargon. Explain in plain English why you are in fear for—not trying to be melodramatic but—your life. These excellent folks who do ATC will do everything they can to save you but you can’t assume their technical expertise.

How come these engines always fly apart right after the overhaul?

Great job...never gave up...and walked away. Like Bob hover said.... fly the s.o.b.all the way to the crash site. Congratulations on avoiding the tremendous desire to pull back on yolk and stall/ spin/ die.

poor communications and poor flying. you were lucky you overcame poor piloting. Revise your emergency initial calls and side slip techniques . You didn't get the info you needed because your comms were poor.

Highways 287,& i-70...was this in Colorado?

My understanding is engine failure occurs at 200 hours or less. I've read this a few times and same situation here.

Good call. Great airmanship young man. That interstate must have looked so very tempting.
Cheers from Louisiana.

Lessons learned SHOULD BE: call Mayday Mayday, Mayday in case of an emergency (and not "emergency") and ask for "Vectors to the nearest airport". Try to match distance and altitude (3000ft 3 miles) until VFR below clouds. When below clouds try to loose altitude like you have trained (full flaps and put nose (way) in front of landing point. No need to worry about overspeeding your flaps. Way, way better than the damage you caused by not doing that. Congrats anyway.

This was pretty obvious from the start as he is alive, but what a nice change to see someone realise "this is wrong" and call an emergency!! So many of these are fatal accidents where people delayed and delayed, refusing to realise the trouble they're in.

ah right around the corner's end of Hawkins Creamery Road! glad you made it down. Damascus..Mt Airy..Frederick..Gaithersburg..(I think that we would'ave known of this crash as I do now of a 12/08/14 "crash" near Montgomery County Airpark) oooh.

Great job…cool as a cucumber. I’d a been stressing.

As amazing this story is and very thankful this pilot made it down safely, I couldn’t help but BURST out laughing during that phone call “IFR cancellation received” 😂😂

I would still call this flight skillful, you performed very well under extreme pressure and your voice sounded as if your nerves were calm and your mind functioning

WOW!

pilot only comments

Same as scuba ...
If u panic, you're done

10y later still relevant

Lesson learned...dont think you're an airline pilot while flying a single engine. Also dont fly a single engine. Finally dont rent a single engine. Lastly if you want to fly around and pretend like youve solved all your personal travel woes just buy a lancair and have a parachute installed. They are fast, brs optional, and many have glass and the absolute best deicing systems. The faa kills so many people every year. Ill be in imc in a lancair tomorrow in mine.. not a worry will occur. Ill be drinking my coffee while my girlfriend fixes her hair

Wait did AtC really nit ask if he was ok or needed to dispatch emergency services?? Theliterally just said 'IFR cancellation recieved *click"

I flew this plane in September of 21, oil pressure was on the high end of the green but we flew without issues. The next renter had an engine failure landing in a field, fairly sure its totaled now.

I thought ATC said “ 2000 ft , asshole “ (asphalt)

Gaithersburg is my home airport

I'm just a ground school student, but another lesson to learn that pops in my mind is, if I was flying to practice my ifr approach in imc, I would only do it if the cloud/fog ceilings were higher, I would certainly do it in imc but would check weather and make sure I have higher ceilings so that in an emergency when I pop out of clouds I have vfr capability.

Impressive. Started flying at 22, and by 27 has all of those certifications. And kept his cool during a deadly dangerous situation requiring quick decision making.

One question though: atc said to maintain 3000' and pilot didn't say anything about loss of power and losing altitude. I'm not a pilot, but that seemed like a crucial omission atc needed to know.

Poor PFI. End of story.

Pretty savage ATC on that phone call. "IFR cancellation received"!? How about something like "Are you ok? Do you need help? Can I call emergency services for you?"

I went through mechanic school. I remember my instructor say he'd rather be flying an engine on its last 100 hours than its first 100 hours. The old engine has already proven itself.

I know this is an old video, but great job and thank you for sharing your experience with the rest of us. I hope you've had an uneventful flying career ever since.

Once again. The initial communication from then pic to atc was time consuming and irrelevant. Emergency I need vectors. What's the emergency? Getting horrible shake. Keep 3000ft if able..... Guys just tell the ATC the damned engine has failed and you need to get onto the ground NOW. The symptoms of the emergency means ZERO to the AtC and only wastes your precious time...EXAMPLE don't tell the ATC your vacuum gauge has failed or the fuel is almost running low, jusy tell them the aircraft has failed and that you need to land yesterday immediately.

Seems another case of every little bit of power wrung from the engine was vital - provided options for the pilot. Totality of pilot’s aviation experience (ie. rotary wing expertise) really informed his calm decision making and clarity of thought. Thanks for another excellent video, highlighting as much the sheer force of will to survive amongst pilots and reconfirmation of the idiom “aviate, navigate, communicate”, use of the E-word and most made of ATC to simulate CRM.

It’s not hard to tell. You sounded like you were pretty concerned…

Aopa did statistics in when engines catastrophically fail and it’s almost ALWAYS in the first 400
Hours. The most realizable engines were in the middle of their TBO and the older timed our engines usually wore out slowly enough that it was obviously time to repalce it before a mid air failure occurred

Another Lesson - Retract Flaps After Such a Landing to give max Braking effort and also Reduced the Chance or completely Make it impossible for it to lift off again when trying to pull back on stick for aero braking.

Is this guy related to conservative commentator Ben Shapiro? Same family name and identical accent and tone

Man, they put the spoiler right at the beginning of the video 😂

Nice to see a positive outcome.

Old GA antique almost claims another life.

But why did the valves stick on a newly rebuilt engine??

Airplane crashed after another engine failure several years later.

Very nice to listen to an emergency that was survived, and that carries usable lessons learned for the pilot. So many accident reports are otherwise.

Any possibility for WINGS credits for watching a ton of these? It'd be nice to get a little payoff but I feel that it's good information regardless

Vocal fry, yuk!

Kept his head … flew the aircraft. Great job!

I landed alive
Ok I received your IFR cancellation 😂😂😂