skydiving plane stalls and dives almost killing jumpers

this is why i will never ever jump at bay area skydiving in byron ca.

this wasn't the first or last time

[SkidzFPV]

Pilot did a great job regaining control and flying away from the jumpers, bravo.

[usafever]

The other problem is the fact that Walter Beech in his wildest drunken fantasies never designed the King Air for skydiving. Given the operating costs, tiny door, high jump speed, high stall speed, prop blast, low tail, and weight penalty of unused pressurization gear. It blows my mind that ANY drop zone still flies King Airs given the abundance of PACs, Porters, Caravans, etc.

[CPD]

Back in the early 70s (I think it was '73), our pilot at Z-Hills lost it when I was out on the wheel and wing struts, going into a nose-down dive. It took everything I had to hang on, looking straight down at that whirling prop. I felt that if I'd let go, I'd have fallen straight through that buzzsaw. The (centrifugal, I guess) force mashed me down, bending my knees, and I watched my gloved hands slip slowly off the wing strut. The other jumpers on the lift, who were pinned in a corner of the cabin, said later they saw the skin of my face deform and peel back from my teeth. I didn't let go because I really felt I'd fall through the prop in that nose-down attitude. The pilot finally recovered, I virtually fell back into the cabin, we got straightened out and made the jump, doing a 4-man star in freefall. The next day I felt like I had been beaten all over my body with a baseball bat!

[Fleshandbooze]

That goober telling everyone to slide to the back of the plane... yeah... that was his fault.

[skyscribe]

"Slide down, everybody."

Well, the CG just went to shit. Lol

[agent_orange]

This shit looks like a new mission impossible movie. Holy fuxk. Glad everyone made it out

[antonymous]

that wasn't only a stall, that was a fully developed spin... that's why you have to be careful with weight distribution at low speeds.

[timmholzhauer]

This exact aircraft crashed a few years later killing all 11 people on board in Hawaii. On one of these flights shown here (maybe it was THIS flight - happened in California) it lost parts of its elevators but was able to land. Crazy! Check NTSB and other sources.

[oldcoot]

Jump planes are compromised due to the big open exit hole in side of the aircraft. Then they slow down and may even pull the throttle back on the jump side so that the slipstream is not as bad for the waiting jumpers. Additionally, the plane may well be overloaded with jumpers and their gear packed inside. Stalls happen, but are almost all recoverable given the altitude at which the jumpers usually get out.

[DustyRolle]

Wow the most recent one stalled the exact same way like a mirror!!

[brissiAU]

For the love of god, when will these so called jump masters realise when you move 6 people to the aft of the plane you move the centre of balance of the aircraft. Both the pilot and jumpers failed to communicate.

[hud]

This pilot was still training and not cleared to solo in this plane by the primary pilot training him. The Drop zone owner was desperate for a pilot one weekend and called the pilot in training in to fly loads. This is what happens when dropzone owners seek profits over safety. This aircraft was later sold to a place in Hawaii where it lost an engine on take off and killed all 9 onboard. Kingairs make nice jump ships but need to be flown faster on jump run and jumpers shouldn't crowd the tail

[suzukirider]

This is how pilot flying the plane gets to have some skydiving fun with the rest of everyone 😀

To be serious though: when I saw the wing with flaps out (flying slow, not too far from stall speed), then the instructor calls out "start sliding down everybody" I knew what's gonna happen.

Plane not only stalls but starts to spin due to CG so far back. What's worse - people tumbling in a spinning airplane cannot really walk back to their seats even if they realize wtf just happened and what caused it. Those at the tail near the door are best jumping off ASAP to lighten the tail.

Seems like the pilot managed to pull it out of the spin and noone went through the props, so I hope everyone learned from this and had some fun during this after all :-)

[Entity_BlackRed]

Poor Beechcraft C90 at 0:28!! It looks so cute, it's windows like big eyes, crying for mercy when falling and spinning without control!!

[delawarepilot]

I never did a spin while not strapped in. That must have been a wild ride in there.

Good visual demonstration of altitude loss in a spin though.

[wungee]

A nose heavy airplane may fly poorly but a tail heavy airplane may only fly once...

[MUNTAINEER]

i hate cameras that only record for a minute

[supermendi]

This is the third video I find of this exact kind of issue happening. I believe it’s a combination of the change of the CG and the airstream on the left wing due to the jumpers being outside and altering it. If you watch closely, it’s that wing the one that stalls first, causing the plane to roll to the left. The exact same thing happens on the other 2 videos I’ve seen.

[lucaas]

Wow, close one. Would you be okay with me featuring this in an episode of Weekly Dose of Aviation? Of course you will be credited both in the video and in the description.

[GroovyVideo]

inside the plane like washing machine tumble