Scudrunners

Fatal crash at Lacombe, and then the TBM 910 wreck at Westlock.

You really got to work at it to flip a nose dragger that size over like that.

I don't see any nose draggers in those pictures. I'm not saying its impossible to flip one, I've seen it done, its just a lot more effort than a tail dragger. Usually you either have to go find a suitable badger hole, or get a terrible snake and brake down the runway. I don't see evidence of the former.

Discussing that with a friend of mine with time on the TBM. He said the same thing, you gotta work to do that in one of them.

Certainly a head scratcher

Appears to be off to the side, maybe a blown tire off the side digs in and flips?

https://www.tbm.aero/wp-content/uploads ... e-list.pdf

on the promotional pdf it shows landing distance of 2430 to clear a 50' obstacle.
Westlock is 3400 feet long, perhaps not inconceivable he floats it jams it on and hammers the brakes losing control? Just a theory

We looked at a house in Westlock, you can taxi from the runway to the back of your house, pretty cool. Wife didn't like the commute though.

Another nose dragger flipped over. Apparently on take off too. Jeebus.

https://www.ponokanews.com/news/plane-f ... -take-off/

Pic in this thread.

http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopi ... 8&t=150044

Think I know that guy. Doesn't fly very often.

Squaretail wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:07 pm

Doesn't fly very often.

Probably for the better.