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NTSB database is full of them SR-20/22's that weren't saved by dem
parachutes. Probably quite a few aircraft that crashed without chutes too - just like many people have died in auto accidents even though they were wearing their seatbelts. A chute isn't a guarantee - just another safety device. |
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Guess we
will have to wait for more details. That would be a novel experience for aviation discussion groups |
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Gene Seibel wrote: That's the way it used to be. Now the pilot has a resignation handle. That's pretty good! I wear one strapped to my rear-end when I fly... and there's gotta be a 'flush handle' joke in there, someplace. :-) -Dave Russell 8KCAB / N2S-3 |
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"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message gonline.com... C J Campbell wrote: I wonder what his altitude was when he ran into trouble. Perhaps he was too low, or maybe he thought he could make an emergency landing safely. Guess we will have to wait for more details. Or he was working on the problem and neglected to actually fly the airplane. That was the story behind some airline crash in Florida, if memory serves. But, as you say, we don't know enough to do more than guess wildly. I suppose I should go with that theme and say it was a problem getting the plane into the alien spaceship's docking bay. Ah, then following Usenet protocol I should flame you, questioning your parentage and your personal habits as well as your politics, and say that it was obviously an Illuminati plot. |
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... Andrew Gideon wrote: That was the story behind some airline crash in Florida, if memory serves. An L-1011. The pilots were descending for approach into Miami. An idiot light came on, they started trying to trouble-shoot that, accidentally knocked the control column (which turned the autopilot off), and set down in the glades. The airline salvaged some of the plane and reused the pieces during maintenance of other aircraft in the fleet. The ghost of the flight engineer was said to haunt all of the planes that received these parts. I remember that it was quite a scandal in Atlanta at the time - a number of people quit the airline. Eventually all the parts were removed and destroyed. Years later, the made a movie of the incident. Starred Ernest Borgnine, as I recall. "The Ghost of Flight 401" (1978), a "made for TV" movie. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0077610/maindetails James Randi debunked the Hollyweird/stories that came out of it shortly after and it was hilarious. Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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"HECTOP" wrote in message Btw there's like 40 miles between Coconut
Grove and Coconut Creek, FL Heh-heh! I didn't notice that. No wonder the papers screwed up the facts. BTW, If you want the e-ticket ride of the year, I'll be test-flying a Cheyenne 400 next week. D. |
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"BTIZ" wrote in message
so how does an avionics problem cause an SR-22 to crash? ohh.. the avionics did not tell the pilot to check fuel before flying.. The ceilings and visibility were crap that day. He likely encountered IMC shortly after take-off. A gyro problem makes sense. The fuel thing comes from a reliable source but puzzles me because a plane without fuel usually doesn't burn down the house it crashes into. D. |
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"BeaglePig" wrote in message How about "Pilot of SR-22 dies because he
forgot he had a parachute"... The press quoted family as saying that he bought a Cirrus specifically because it had a chute. However, my understanding is that it needs 1000' to deploy properly. He may never have had enough altitude. D. |
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"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
regarding your subject line: The parachute is not meant to do that. The pilot is. Don't worry, The UK is slowly coming around to the American way of blaming anyone and everything so long as personal accountability can be suppressed. D. |
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Capt.Doug ) wrote:
The fuel thing comes from a reliable source but puzzles me because a plane without fuel usually doesn't burn down the house it crashes into. Unless the aircraft severed a natural gas line and another source ignited it. -- Peter |
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