How not to take off with a floatplane
A De Havilland Beaver crashes while taking off at Lake Hood in Anchorage, AK, USA.
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2 Posted 145 days ago by JerryD
Look! I'm gonna fly! I'm in the air! .... nooo I'm not! Is the plane insured? Feel's like been over the head in shit now!
3 Posted 145 days ago by Esthreel
Good camera action, because mostly it's just OMG it crashed and... And you are so damn curious about what happened, and the cameraman has forgot about his cam, and you are left with audio only...
6 Posted 145 days ago by Fergus_Thedog
Aren't planes usually called things like "albatross" or "eagle" or similar flying creature..? That flying craft was screwed (pun unintended but gleefully acknowledged) as soon as it was called "beaver".
7 Posted 145 days ago by Yellowdie12
Yeah, I think I would have been running at 0:38 and not wait until it hits me. That's just me...
8 Posted 145 days ago by MoT
It looked like it slowed down halfway through the lake. And why wasn't the pilot lightly pulling back on the yoke then rather than waiting a second before the end of the lake to do it?!
Camera guy has balls.. he so easily could have been chewed up by the propellor. In fact, the pilot probably crashed like that because of the camera guy, he tried to get over him rather than just bumping up the end of the lake and through the fence.
9 Posted 145 days ago by zzaxro
one may wanna say it's pilot's fault, to a certain level there is; not because is being unexperienced in flying, but choosing wrong way to accelerate, he should have taxi'd the opposite way @round, my guess.
10 Posted 145 days ago by kainim
i think the pilot misunderstood the concept of pulling up -_-
1 word: invert axis
11 Posted 145 days ago by mikesufc
It is a bit hard to determine if people are being sarcastic on the Internet...but #10 that post was an epic fail...
12 Posted 145 days ago by Nemi
Pilot. "Ooh look we're being filmed!"
Passenger. "Um, don't you think you'd better watch where you're going?"
Pilot. "Oh it's OK, i've done this sort of thing a million times! Relax!"
Passenger. "OMFG!"
Pilot. "DOH!"
15 Posted 144 days ago by lacroupade
#9 I have no idea what you are talking about my friend? But yes, something tells me you MAY 'wanna say its the pilots fault'!!! 
17 Posted 134 days ago by Beaver307
If your going to crash a Beaver, at least do it somewhere cool.
Anchor station is not cool.
18 Posted 120 days ago by NathaneM
Why did he took off? It is obviously still needs more acceleration and power. What a waste of money. 
(38 votes)
1 Posted 145 days ago by WildMonkey
So much FAIL it's a WIN!