this is my home field. My mechanic was there before and after the accident. The airplane came over the field on the north threshold with adequate height for a landing but decided (felt too high I assume) to make a 360 and headed north to lose height, During the turn towards the airport entered a spin luckily ended up flat. I went there the day after and saw the sorry sight. I guess he never did the alpha one and alpha 2 maneuver. At no moment did he put the gear or flaps down. Engine was silent during the entire episode. What a pity. Wonder what made the engine fail. I am sure PW engineers will be there to find out. Should have been a survivable accident. Easy to criticize. Lucky only got a broken leg. The value of alpha one and alpha 2 maneuvers is incalculable. We do that every year on our recurrent training for insurance purposes on my turbine airplane which has similar glide ratio as the PC-12.
That explains why it has no wings. What’s Alpha one and two?
Perhaps high and low key points in a constant aspect technique forced landing ?
Thank you for the Grade A input, Magyarflyer.
It doesn’t look like a a spin in this video.
Weird ! Erratic pitch movements. Panic ?
No the stick pusher kicked in, and he may have fought it!
Yep was probably trying to stretch the glide and AOA got too high.
Here’s another one from 2002
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/17023
