re: Plane crash in Lafayette

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Am I reading right that the payload with max fuel is only 898 pounds? It has been a long time since I had to do weight and balance, but with six passengers, that ain't much.

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That appears to be with full fuel and fuel is very heavy. I'm not a pilot and I don't own a plane, but every time I've been around private planes they usually refuel every stop. So they are not flying with full fuel. But I have no idea how normal this would be?

Most of these planes can fly for 4-5 hours at a time and you can get to half of the southeast in 1-2 hours. So I doubt they would carry full fuel often, but I have no idea?

That would be very tragic if it was simply overweight, but I doubt that is the case here especially since they likely didn't have luggage.

Here's and update on Danielle Britt posted on her GoFundMe;

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words from her brother in law

Those that I have asked to pray for my sister in law Danielle Truxillo Britt deserve an update. She is very aware of everything that happened, the condition she is in, and the work,,and pain ahead to achieve full recovery. So if she were to write this she would be much more thorough and detailed especially with the treatment and care she receives at the Burn Center in New Orleans. Trying to be brief but between beating childhood lymphoma and recovering from a bad car wreck, and now being hit by a plane and crawling out of car engulfed in flames , she has extensive firsthand knowledge of what to expect. Enough for all of us! To the point, like many of you, I was back and forth between being heartbroken for what she is going thru, and celebrating because I have full faith and reason to believe she will fully recover. At first seeing her she was completely recognizable in her voice and her positive determined attitude but unrecognizable in appearance...I can say that because she caught a glimpse of her self in the reflection of the phone yesterday. I can also say that after seeing that the swelling from the burns in her face will completely recover to her prior beauty. Her right side, arms, hands, are burned to the extent skin would look as if it were crinkled up in small sections, exposing muscle in large areas. But thru treatment and surgery will also recover. In certain spots, due to swelling of body and shrinkage of skin her skin had to be cut in length to allow relief; like from elbow to wrist on underside of her forearm. I'm still torn between celebrating the condition we all know she will recover to and the condition she is in. My brother and I are in awe of how strong she is(although it's nothing short of my brothers expectations). I broke my ankle and wrist and my world was falling apart and Cory had to do everything and I wouldn't have had it any other way. I once burned my thumb on a firecracker and I stayed up all night in excruciating pain. Danielle was hit by plane, car thrown into pole, unbuckled, willingly crawled out passenger window, thru fire(car engulfed in flames), jokes with the ambulance driver on the way to hospital, and about 36 hours after is asking what exercises and movements she needs to do with her face, hands, arms to speed up a successful recovery. I have asked many of you to pray and I ask again, it is said that
"The prayers of a righteous man are heard" so knowing I'm not, I hedge my prayers thru Christ with yours and I know we are heard.

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Yeah my buddy that’s a pilot said “really you’re limited to what’s underneath you at the distance you’re dropping” I guess that’s fairly obvious

Turboprop engine failures are rare when compared to their piston counterparts. The props take care of ingesting birds to an extent. Fast hands on the controls may be a factor. Something uncommon occurred and there was an over correction. We’ll likely never know for sure.

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Danielle Truxillo Britt

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beating childhood lymphoma and recovering from a bad car wreck, and now being hit by a plane and crawling out of car engulfed in flames

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Danielle was hit by plane, car thrown into pole, unbuckled, willingly crawled out passenger window, thru fire(car engulfed in flames), jokes with the ambulance driver on the way to hospital, and about 36 hours after is asking what exercises and movements she needs to do with her face, hands, arms to speed up a successful recovery.

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That woman is undoubtedly 1000 times tougher than most men including myself.

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50-50

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I'd say that pretty much sums it up.


I've had engine failures in the C-130 and landed with an engine out before. It's relatively anti-climactic. An engine shitting the bed on you at rotation/immediately after rotation is another ballgame(I have no experience with this, knock on wood).

This is an example of an engine failure during the takeoff run(Well before decision speed) that the crew took airborne anyway. Aircraft was perfectly flyable on 3 engines that day, but the crew made a series of terrible decisions and they planted it.

I had an instructor give me this exact scenario twice in the sim. The first time he didn't tell us what was going to happen and we aborted the Takeoff. He told us it was the savannah crash scenario(or as close as the sim could replicate) afterwards. The second time he told us to continue airborne and handle it as an in-flight emergency. We took it flying and were able to safely get back on the ground.

I'll caveat this by saying that doing something in the sim is not the same as having your pink arse on the line in the airplane.

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Trying to be brief but between beating childhood lymphoma and recovering from a bad car wreck, and now being hit by a plane and crawling out of car engulfed in flames , she has extensive firsthand knowledge of what to expect.

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Your sister-in-law is an amazing person. I can't even imagine the horror (and pain) she experienced as she crawled out of her burning vehicle. Then she catches a glimpse of her severely disfigured face. But she's alive and the medical advances in burn treatment will, hopefully, return her to her former self. She has her family to support her and that is a big big help.

Hopefully this accident will result in improved safety requirements for privately owned aircraft. We should ALL demand it.

In the meantime we pray for Danielle and her family and for her spiritual and financial support.

Has it been decided yet if this was engine failure or some other cause?

If the passenger survives his story could help quite a bit if he remembers anything.