What was the purpose of the fire extinguishers? To put out the plane after it crashed?
I doubt that by the time he got too the plane there would have been anything left worth extinguishing?
Perhaps too prevent a forest fire? Although that would've been equally futile.
Maybe someone who intentionally crashes a plan for a few YouTube clicks isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier after all.
Though, de'd still probably get there before it spread to miles and miles...he just wouldn't have had much impact when he did even if it was only a few dozen yards in size.
So he might have got to it.
But on the other hand he's also an idiot.
Nevertheless he at least thought he might have to do this.
I wasted an inordinate amount of time analysing the whole thing myself, including but not limited to finding the location based on geographic features - and then testing in Flight Simulator.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one.
I'm disappointed he's not thrown in jail for reckless endangerment.
There was for a time a micro-industry of people taking flights to this location on Youtube -- it's one of the most fun examples of this that I've seen.
And yeah; really quickly people discovered that he genuinely had options.
There is a question I've not seen answered yet. Did the wallet guys know he was doing this in advance?
He also removed the ending, and both the beginning and ending were the pretext for the flight – bringing his friends ashes in a used sandwich bag to be scattered in the mountains, so could have instead been removed to reduce the cheese factor.
…suffice to say lots of people have gone through his video frame by frame to find weird stuff.
An extinguisher that small is basically useless except for very temporarily beating back the fire to get to something/someone.
For instance, the apparent reason why the engine stopped working isn't due to mechanical failure of the engine (very common in old ass prop planes, just as your Hyundai might blow up, due to oil starvation, spun bearings, rods grenading itself, etc), but rather running out of fuel. He purposefully brought not enough fuel to kill the engine, and secondarily prevent a fire. It was also strongly speculated that he filled one of the fuel tanks with water, probably in an attempt to prevent a fire from erupting.
Even in an empty fuel tank the vapors are way to rich to ignite. You might get a good flash if you introduce air and ignition at the same time but odds are you won't get any sort of sustained fire.
Unlike cars, even old aviation engines have strict rules for inspection, and for replacement of parts after a certain number of hours, rather than when they wear out or fail. You could get away with circumventing these for a while, but it is simply not true that it is "very common" for "old ass prop planes" to have engine failures, comparably to old cars.
> It was also strongly speculated that he filled one of the fuel tanks with water...
I would be interested in seeing how strong the evidence behind this speculation is, but if it were the case, it would be yet further evidence of his incompetence, as water is no help, and sometimes a problem, in preventing, containing and extinguishing a gasoline fire.