Airline Pilot creates realistic animation of Flight 214 Crash

[pinkoos]

This is pretty interesting. Would love to hear input from the pilots and flying aficionados on the forum.

http://mashable.com/2013/07/14/flight-214-animation/

"There was no clear video of last weekend's tragic Asiana Airlines Flight 214's crash landing that killed three passengers, but animation artists were quick to provide crude renderings of what actually happened. Now a former airline pilot and current forensic animator has created the most realistic and well-researched look yet of what most likely happened last Saturday at San Francisco International Airport.

The video was created by former Boeing 727 pilot Jack Suchocki, who also happens to be a talented 3D animator who founded Eyewitness Animations, a company that provides aviation accident reconstruction animations for legal investigations. He told us he used Autodesk's pro animation software 3DS Max to create this super-realistic view of the crash landing."

[testcase]

Very nice animation. The crew were definitely "Behind the Aircraft" at the most critical phase of the flight. When they learned the "Localizer" (electronic landing aid) was out of service, their alert level should have ratcheted up several notches. That didn't happen. Truly sad. The miracle is how few fatalities resulted. I believe the Flight Attendants did an extraordinary job in getting the passengers out. They'll probably never get the full recognition they deserve.

[haikuman]

Thanks for your post pinkoos *(:>*

[AllGold]

Nice.

However, while it shows the altitude discrepancy it understandably does not show the airspeed discrepancy (the ideal/reference plane would leave the real version far behind).

[haikuman]

That was stated in the article ~!~:facepalm: me thinks *(:>*

[AllGold]

Read? You want me to read?! I thought I was supposed to look at the pretty pictures.

I did skim the article but obviously missed that.

[RAMd®d]

That ghost plane would actually have been flying much faster than the crash-landing plane, but Suchocki slowed its speed to keep it in the frame for comparison purposes.

Makes sense.

He said he'd update the reconstruction as he got more details. I'm curious about one aspect. At least one, if not more, "eyewitness" accounts said the plane cartwheeled along the runway. I was surprised at how little damage was done considering the events of such a crash.

But the reconstruction shows that there was no "cartwheel", but a 360d spin. That helps explain the lack of fatalities and more serious injuries.

It also looks like there was no true stall, as I understand it, according to that animation.

Thanks for the link, pinkoos.