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This is what happens when an airplane take off overloaded : beyond its maximum take off weight

This accident happened in Columbia. The Cessna 182 took off overloaded. The plane barely climbed, but had not enough speed and crashed into a building a few seconds later.
The plane was operated by an organization that helps people with medical assistance on remote places of Colombia (Patrulla Aérea Colombiana). There were 4 people on board: The pilot and chief of medical staff, another physician, a little boy recently operated, and the mother of the boy. All were killed in the accident.

Comments

Ian
(Alabama, U.s)
You survive one accident just to die in another. When your time is up, your time is up!
17th May, 2011
Will
(Canada)
The mother being terrified had nothing to do with this. The captain being a total idiot is what caused this to happen. The plane was grossly overloaded and it did have the right takeoff flaps just the wrong pilot and that idiot Captleo who commented below is just as stupid as this guy and he is probably next. If anyone knows this Captleo idiot give his address along with his dumb comment to the FAA
16th March, 2011
Mauricio
Bogota (Colombia)
Is not Columbia, is Colombia.
21st February, 2010
Andres
Lancaster, Ca (U.s.a.)
I hear the report from the Colombian News Channel, they said the child's mother was very scared of flying, they said also she was sit on the front, I agree with one reader who said she probably impaired the pilot.
14th July, 2009
Andrew
Melbourne (Australia)
No guts. No glory.
22nd August, 2008
captleo
Miami (Usa.)
HIS REAL MISTAKE WAS TO REMOVE FLAPS TOO SOON BESIDE BEEN OVERLOADED, I FLOWN OVERLOADED PLANE JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE WITH NO PROBLEM BUT WHEN YOU REMOVE THE FLAPS THE PLANE, ANY PLANE WILL SINK AND HE JUST DID THAT LOOK AT THE VIDEO.
1st October, 2007
Alan Hennessy
Cork (Ireland)
I have listened to the commentary of the victims in this clip (Spanish). It appears the mother was terrified of flying and may have impeded the controls. She shouldn't have been put in the copilot seat. The segment isn't included here.
17th September, 2007
R
Canberra (Australia)
It says 4 people but there's 5 onboard.
13th September, 2007
Martin
Eastbourne (Uk)
These crashes are happening far too often...in the UK as well. Where do these pilots' do their training? Weight and balance loadsheet....i trust one of these was completed?......obviously not. They died because of incompetence. RIP
31st August, 2007
DEAN
(South Africa)
NO WAY FOR SUCCESFULL TAKE OFF WHEN LANDING (BRAKING) FLAPS ARE IMPLEMENTED.
24th June, 2007
connor
he shold know how much stuff you can put in one of those!!!
23rd March, 2007
sean
(Uk)
It looked like a very short runway, hence I think the use of landing flaps, bearing in mind it was "heavy". I think the real pilot error however was in overloading it in the first place.
15th January, 2007
hi
i guess some people just dont know how to fly a plane , and still fly it
7th January, 2007
Fred
Bartlett (Usa)
I noticed his flaps too! Wrong degree for takeoff and with that weight without aquiring enough speed he is doomed. Makes you wonder how trained some of these pilots that these services use are.
3rd January, 2007
Henk
(The Netherlands)
Maybe it was overloaded... However it seems that the pilot used more than 10 degrees flaps... And he didn't first pick up speed, and at 200 ft retracted his flaps...
7th November, 2006
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