http://www.fly-ul.com/crash/lunsford/CrashVideo.wmv
Things to notice in the video:
* I had 2700 feet of paved runway in front of me, but I chose to make an immediate left turn after taking off. That was my biggest mistake.
* When the engine failed, the plane almost immediately stalled. I was in a turn, and climbing at about 27mph (I remember looking at the ASI). I didn't push the nose over immediately, and since the plane was still at a climb attitude, the airspeed dropped below stall speed in less than a second.
* There was very little distance between me and the trees, so even if I had managed to keep the plane from stalling, I still would have ended up in the trees.
* It's hard to see on the video, but the plane is spun to the left by the trees. As I fell through the trees, the plane actually ended up going backwards slightly with the wings acting as "parachutes" The camera cuts out a fraction of a second before I hit the ground. If you pause the video on the last frame, you can see the road that I had just passed over. I did a 360 degree turn whle falling vertically through the trees.
Hope ya'll can learn something from this.
