Small Plane Crash north of Nashville (Whites Creek)

[Guest db99wj]

Crazy. My brother lives about 2 doors down from where the plane went down! My SIL didn't hear anything. My Bro wasn't there.

http://www.wsmv.com/news/18050094/detail.html

[Warbird]

Read a short blurb about it. Sorry to hear it. According to the reports, which are always sketchy when moron reporters try to to report on aircraft anything, a witness said the plane was flat and spinning when it went into the ground.

Very rare for a small twin engine plane to end up in a flat spin, while not just after takeoff or just before landing, or most often practicing stalls. No report on the type of aircraft but I will be interested to know if it is a Piper Twin Comanche. They had issues years ago with the ease of getting into flat spins in engine stall maneuvers. For one I would think they were not practicing stall maneuvers while on IFR in bad weather. Two, what some witness says was a plane coming in flat and spinning and what I would term a 'flat spin' which is a true aviation term may be different thing entirely.

Sorry to see the 3 people lost their lives.

Edit: According to this new story it was a Beech Baron.

Maybe a guess is they lose an engine and fail to feather the dead prop fast enough or at all and perhaps did not throttle up the other engine in time. Who knows, bad weather but no lightning, don't know wind conditions this mornin or ceiling levels.

Edited November 24, 2008 by Warbird