DC3 Owend by CAF crashes on departure at Burnet TX en route

[John 312]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_CgAiuk7s

[stanak]

this beauty seen in 2014 at Houston
N47HL


aircraft burned, hopfully everybody is ok

[tally]

this beauty seen in 2014 at Houston
N47HL


aircraft burned, hopfully everybody is ok

Everybody got out. Some with burns but got treated in local hospital.

[pilotman6012]

13 onboard all escaped 1 with burns was flown to a hospital,8 more were transported,mostly minor injuries,the aircraft was a total loss.

[Mr.Herkybird]

13 onboard all escaped 1 with burns was flown to a hospital,8 more were transported,mostly minor injuries,the aircraft was a total loss.

Such a shame, the aircraft was destined to take part at the return of the candy bombers sommer next year...

[AmericanSoldier15U]

13 onboard all escaped 1 with burns was flown to a hospital,8 more were transported,mostly minor injuries,the aircraft was a total loss.

Such a shame, the aircraft was destined to take part at the return of the candy bombers sommer next year...

as well as the 75th anniversary of D-Day in France

[Alpha Kilo One]

What happened? It looked like a weird accident. Something mechanical?

[Flyboy]

What happened? It looked like a weird accident. Something mechanical?

If you review the footage on youtube:
@ sec 15 the tail moves to the left, which is corrected
@ sec 18 with opposite rudder
@ sec 23 the aircraft is directly in front of the camera and the wind seems to get grip on her wings, also the tailwheel comes back on the ground. It seems as if the flying speed is not achieved yet. The left wing get slightly more lift so goes airborne, to be corrected
@ sec 26 where the wing drops significantly.
@ sec 27 the wings are level, but the left wings keeps dropping. At this (low) speed, moving the aileron down may increase the cL of the wing so much that that wing stalls.

Without judging! it seems that the flying speed had noy yet been achieved.

[skippyscage]

That was a 3-point take-off, something that’s never routinely done in a taildragger.

The aircraft will try to fly at too slow an airspeed.

[Trabanti]

Looked like bad loading or incorrect trim setting.. Or indeed a mechanical reason.

[tally]

What happened? It looked like a weird accident. Something mechanical?

If you review the footage on youtube:
@ sec 15 the tail moves to the left, which is corrected
@ sec 18 with opposite rudder
@ sec 23 the aircraft is directly in front of the camera and the wind seems to get grip on her wings, also the tailwheel comes back on the ground. It seems as if the flying speed is not achieved yet. The left wing get slightly more lift so goes airborne, to be corrected
@ sec 26 where the wing drops significantly.
@ sec 27 the wings are level, but the left wings keeps dropping. At this (low) speed, moving the aileron down may increase the cL of the wing so much that that wing stalls.

Without judging! it seems that the flying speed had noy yet been achieved.

One major event is that he left the runway (@ sec 20 or so). Its better to pull power and abort take off to minimize damage than to continue the take off role and what seems a premature rotation at too slow a speed. The rest is history.