This pilot is lucky he didn't kill everyone on board.

YouTube - Close call with terrain

 

I hope he bought a lottery ticket after that.

And some more instructor hours.

 

Holy shit, it'd take me a loooooooooooong time just to go up in any airplane again after that experience.

 

those 2 guys up front should never see a cockpit from inside again...

not even a glider cockpit.

I guess he really tried to look out of the window to spot some visual references...

and if he was really not capable of flying IFR along with the GPS he could at least have climbed to a safe altitude in that sector.

 

Well at least one guy. We don't know if the second guy is a pilot or not. Could have just been another passenger. Either way, I agree. Such gross negligence, and with passengers aboard.

 

What is wrong with this idiot!?! Why would you fly int IMC when you are just a VFR pilot??? I can understand if you are flying around and it just happens to get ugly (unlikely), at which point you ask ATC for help and guidance. But to fly low, fly nap of the earth in those conditions is just stupid. That guy should not be allowed to ever take anyone up in a plane again. Why why why!?! It is just beyond me.

What happened to the L-39?

Darwinism fail.

 

Wow...that was really really scary.

 

wow..inches from death..

 

+1

If you can't fly in the clouds, don't go there.

 

I definitely wouldn't be laughing with anyone once on the ground.