It's September 2022 and a young flight instructor takes a passenger for a gift flight experience in his flight schools PiperSport (Sport Cruiser) aircraft, not knowing that on their return, just 45 minutes later, they would both be dead. The NTSB final report determines that the accident was caused by the passenger losing control of the aircraft on landing, however, was the aircraft design the contributing factor that gave the instructor no chance to save them both?

This has been one of the hardest videos I've ever made for YouTube, I am not keen on these fatal accident debrief videos but I feel I have something to give on this one. With over 6 years of flying the PiperSport I know it's not perfect and I also know that taking new people flying in it requires total vigilance as it is so easy for them to touch something at the wrong time which could turn out to be catastrophic.

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The crash video taken from Santa Monica Airports security cameras forms part of the NTSB report but it is still copyright Santa Monica Airport. I have used appropriate and censored portions of this footage to give context to this video and for educational purposes.

Portions of this video include copyrighted footage kindly supplied by Ed Whisenant who has a fantastic YouTube channel, you can find it here:
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My name is Terry Kent and I am a General Aviation PPL private pilot operating out of North Weald EGSX about 12 miles to the north east of London in the UK. Short Field is my channel focused on the lighter side of General Aviation including flight and airfield reviews, equipment unboxing and review plus all things private pilot related. I use various cameras to record my videos including GoPro and Insta 360 and stills and edit them in Adobe Premiere Pro, I am an animator as well and often use animations to describe situations more clearly I use Blender and Adobe After Effects for these. I always attempt to post my videos in the highest possible quality, normally 4k.

I fly a 2011 Pipersport two seat single engine aircraft that is also known as the PS28 or SportCruiser in the USA (America) it is know under the FAA as an LSA or Light Sport Aircraft and can be flown on a very basic license. In the UK it is a Part 21 airplane which requires a full licence but it's generally cheap to run, affordable maintenance and great value for money. It cruises at 100 to 105 knots and has superb short take off and landing or STOL capabilities. I visit farm strips, back country and short airfields, some of them dangerous and I try not to crash :-), as well as international airports and try to learn something new every time I fly.

I fly VFR and IFR as well as visual and instrument approaches.

My videos may give helpful information to pilots but please remember these are just for entertainment, I am not an instructor nor should anything shown in my videos be used for real world aviation, also the airfields I visit may have totally changed or even closed since the making of the video so always consult the latest information for your country.

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