Jack Rousch injured in landing accident at Oshkosh - Page 4 - Lateral-g Forums

96z28ss · #31 08-02-2010, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RECOVERY ROOM

What kinda boat you got there,

He had a really big boat. Or is it called a ship at that point?

**GregWeld** · #32 08-02-2010, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by RECOVERY ROOM

What kinda boat you got there,

Don't want to be a thread jacker.... but here's a small glimpse...

47' Grand Banks Motoryacht - dragging a 18' Grady White... I should ADD that I sold it 4 years ago when the kids started college and the use went to zero.

RECOVERY ROOM · #33 08-03-2010, 05:36 AM

We will have to start calling you "Skipper"

Josh69 · #34 08-03-2010, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by RECOVERY ROOM

We will have to start calling you "Skipper"

I'll be Gilligan!!

**GregWeld** · #35 08-03-2010, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Josh69

I'll be Gilligan!!

Here's YOUR boat Gilligan.......

**Spiffav8** · #36 08-03-2010, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by MattG

That is exactly how it applied to aviation.

I've been an airline pilot for over 17 years, and that last thing you ever do is stop flying the airplane reguardless of what any ATC guys tells you to do.

I have seen this through out my whole career...rich guy buys an airplane beyond his skills and thinks he can go fly it every now and then and be safe.

Guys at his level don't like to be told they suck at flying airplanes and they think they can handle anything just cause they can afford it. More often than people know, the result is death...he is one Extremely Lucky SOB!

I hope he is O.K., but he hopefully has learned a huge lesson.

My 2 cents,

Matt

I too have seen what Matt is talking about.....way to much. It's a sad truth that has cost many their life.

The bottom line here is that Jack made a bad decision and used poor judgment. It could have killed him, his passenger and countless others on the ground. There is no excuse for an accident like this. None. His pilots license and medical should be revoked.

Josh69 · #37 08-03-2010, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

Here's YOUR boat Gilligan.......

Hey, I'll take that center console! Lots of room to stand around, drink some beers, and come up with stupid ideas....my specialty!

I'll tie the canoe behind it, I'll have a dinghy for my dinghy!

**XcYZ** · #38 08-15-2010, 05:05 PM

Just some follow up...

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NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was back at the racetrack Friday, having permanently lost vision in his left eye but otherwise feeling lucky to survive yet another plane crash. And yes, he expects to fly again. Roush, who crashed his jet just over two weeks ago while trying to land at an air show in Wisconsin, said he ruptured his left eyeball in the crash and doesn't expect to ever be able to see out of it again. "Everything will come back, except for the eye," he told reporters at Michigan International Speedway. Roush then joked that he uses his right eye to examine spark plugs anyway. Wearing sunglasses and his trademark Panama-style hat, Roush was present on pit road for qualifying. He had left the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., earlier this week. In addition to his eye injury, Roush said he broke his jaw, sustained a compression fracture in his back and hurt his left cheek.

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The National Transportation Safety Board issued its preliminary report on Jack Roush's plane crash that happened last month at Oshkosh, Wis. The report does not assign blame for the incident but does provide a few more details of what happened. In the report, it states that Roush's "airplane appeared to overshoot the runway centerline during this turn (a left turn for the runway) and then level its wings momentarily before entering a slight right bank simultaneously as the nose of the airplane pitched up. The airplane then turned left toward the runway centerline and began a descent. During this descent, the airplane's pitch appeared to increase until the airplane entered a right bank and struck the grass area west of the runway in a nose down, right wing low attitude.'' The report -- remember this is a preliminary report, a final one will come later -- did not mention the traffic "conflict'' he encountered upon landing that he said contributed to the incident. Such details are likely to be examined in the final report.

The preliminary report stated that air traffic controllers were interviewed, amateur video was reviewed, the NTSB spent two days examining the plane before giving it back to Roush and found "no preimpact malfunctions or anomalies'' in the on-scene inspections of the "airframe structure, flight control systems, or two turbo-fan engines.'' The report also states that "several non-volatile memory devices were removed from the airplane and were retained for future download. A cockpit voice recorder was recovered and shipped to the NTSB Vehicle Recorder Division in Washington, D.C. for readout."

**GregWeld** · #39 08-15-2010, 08:55 PM

Interesting -- and gee.... a "slightly different" version from what he described...

On first read - it's pilot error... even though I know it's preliminary.

**Spiffav8** · #40 08-16-2010, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

Interesting -- and gee.... a "slightly different" version from what he described...

On first read - it's pilot error... even though I know it's preliminary.

It's pilot error...or Triple PT. Piss Poor Pilot Technique.