Airplane near death experience? Stall spin crash!

A lesson learned from a tragedy saved your life, and now you pass on your experience to continue to save more lives. Thank you and I am so glad that you made safely back home

While the right rudder helped, the stall condition is alleviated when the "back stick" is relieved, thus allowing the angle of attack of the wing to get below the critical angle. Rudder alone will not get you out of trouble. I recall sitting in a C152 while my student was practising spin recoveries. I was looking outside and remarked that now might be a good time to commence recovery. He said "I am", and looked a bit concerned as he sat there holding full opposite rudder while the 152 kept spinning away merrily. The old instinct to get the nose up with back stick (yoke in this case), had kicked in, and he was pulling back and keeping the stall, and therefore the spin, going. Upon releasing the back stick, the faithful little 152 recovered as promised in the manual. In the situation you faced in your video, the only safe option was the one you took, which was go around.

Your right foot saved your life. Thank you for sharing this and I am thrilled you got the opportunity to tell us the story in your own words. Close call for sure.

U were very close to a permanent end. Too high to survive an impact, too low to recover from a spin. It takes guts to share those stories. Thank u.

I'm glad you're safe, but dude. Talk about a Click bait title. You should amend that, pretty distasteful

Bloody hell, that rudder input saved your life! So pleased you are here to tell us about what happened, so everyone can learn. You could have so easily avoided talking about what happened to you, but by doing the hard thing & sharing this, you might help save the life of other pilots in the future. Keep up the great content

Glad you're still with us, and thank your for presenting your info. May we all learn from it and fly safer in the future.

I’m not a pilot but my son is. I’ll definitely be forwarding this to him,thank you.

April 3, 1974 my dad was turning base to final in a Bellanca Viking. Strong crosswind and he had overshot the turn. Instead of throttling up and initiating a go around he steepened the turn and had a stall spin accident killing him and a passenger instantly. One gentleman in the back seat survived but was severely injured. It can happen so quickly but thankfully you caught it and kept it from developing. Thanks for posting this so others can learn and keep from finding themselves in a similar situation.

Thanks for the share. You were essentially a moment from an aggravated stall. Good job on the rudder.

Pressing hard on the rudder at low speeds close to the ground can actually worsen the situation because of the increased drag and create a fatal stall. I have 8500 hours logged mostly on commercial aircraft and recently was saved by a “student” with only 150 hours who offered to keep me company on my getting back to flying single engines. His recent experience was much more valuable than all my hours combined because he applied instinctively the skills necessary to get out of a dangerous situation. Thank you for sharing the experience, it’s never shameful to learn from your own mistakes, perhaps you’re saving someone else’s life down the line. Safe flying everyone

Wow! It is so important to share information like this. I am so glad you instantly saw the situation that you were approaching and was ready to respond to it.

Thanks for sharing. These videos really push home not being over confident and complacent. Glad your safe.

Good decision making aviator. Glad you’re with us to share the story. Thank you for sharing it.

A lot of people confuse skill for luck and refuse to learn from close calls. I can respect anyone who reflects and shares.

Thank you for sharing . Very happy for your fast and correct reaction. Enjoy your safe flying with us!

I flew my last 17 years of instructing in an SNJ-5. A pretty unforgiving ac with no stall warning, either aero buffet or audible...so that was an airspeed/AOA border not to be crossed in the pattern and certainly not base to final. One day I went to 3000 agl and did some stalls with and without flaps, noted those airspeeds, and then put taped lines outside of my airspeed indicator so I could instantly see how close I was at a glance. (The old WW2 airspeed indicators don't have green or white lines painted on it). While STOL stuff is not what we were about, over 17 years there were times when traffic pattern issues evolved with slower traffic or runway incursions at inopportune moments that forced a go around. You can't really foresee all the stuff that can happen but my take away is keep your speed on the plus side and make your go around decision early. In the end I flew 30 years and 4500hrs, 3500 T6/SNJ without incident. Dale Snodgrass taught us a big lesson.

Thank you so much for posting this! A good pilot is always learning. You learned, you lived. Thanks for being humble enough to admit making a mistake, and ultimately having the balls to post it, hopefully in turn someone else will learn, and live. Cheers.

Thank you for honestly sharing. You reacted well, both with your right foot and then by going around and calling it a day. You should be proud.

Really enjoyed this video brother! Glad your instincts kicked in and you made it out alive! You got my subscription.