Airplane almost collides - pulls chute

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:14 pm

Yowzers!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_JAg1ZedGo

Speaking of which, I can't wait to go flying on Saturday to Cleveland.

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:16 pm

Pretty damn lucky landing eh?

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:21 pm

CNN story about it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTemKnL8X30

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:21 pm

Spammy wrote:Pretty damn lucky landing eh?

Well, once the chute is out, you're just along for the ride. You can't control it really.

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:25 pm

Crazy

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:25 pm

mountainman wrote:CNN story about it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTemKnL8X30

Need more story.

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:29 pm

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:31 pm

mountainman wrote:Eh?

Whats with the other plane, was it in the wrong? fine? drunk flyer?

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:33 pm

that is soo cool! ive never even heard of parachutes for planes... cept for the realy fast ones on short runways

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:34 pm

Bastid wrote:that is soo cool! ive never even heard of parachutes for planes... cept for the realy fast ones on short runways

Me either. Pretty damn cool.

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:34 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Whats with the other plane, was it in the wrong? fine? drunk flyer?

was towing a glider... watch the cnn version tells you what happened... rope gets cought in propeller

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:34 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Whats with the other plane, was it in the wrong? fine? drunk flyer?

To be honest, they probably never found out who the other guy was. It caught the cable which a tow plane can release and leave wherever it drops.

Who was in the wrong? I'm no investigator, but they both should have been watching out for each other. I'm guessing it would have been a 50/50 fault pending any other broken rules you can't see from the video (wrong altitude, etc).

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:35 pm

Bastid wrote:was towing a glider... watch the cnn version tells you what happened... rope gets cought in propeller

Seems that the glider was gone and the tow plane was cruising back with only the cable attached. (Obviously the glider releases the cable and it stays attached to the tow plane.)

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:36 pm

mountainman wrote:To be honest, they probably never found out who the other guy was. It caught the cable which a tow plane can release and leave wherever it drops.

Who was in the wrong? I'm no investigator, but they both should have been watching out for each other. I'm guessing it would have been a 50/50 fault pending any other broken rules you can't see from the video (wrong altitude, etc).

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:36 pm

Bastid wrote:that is soo cool! ive never even heard of parachutes for planes... cept for the realy fast ones on short runways

This is the 2nd airplane in that story: http://www.cirrusdesign.com/

They put them in ALL of their airplanes. There is debate on them, but that's another conversation.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:06 pm

going by what the guy said in the comments the glider which was being towed by the plane that was on the lft side of the screen had the right of way in France where that pilot was filming and said he was in the wrong.

I wondered why he stalled at first but bastid said the cable got caught. I didnt realize why on earth he would have stalled if the guy was not too close.

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:06 pm

For one, I would NEVER read the "comments" of a YouTube video for any good info. It is true that gliders have the right of way, but this was the tow plane for the glider, not the glider itself. They are on a "level playing field", so to speak. (Unless I missed that the glider was still attached.)

Stalling in an airplane means the wing stops flying; not the engine stops running like a car engine stalls. Basically, when it stalls, it starts dropping just about straight down and that is a big no-no in a normal airplane. Aerobatic airplanes are made to recover so they can do that as part of their act.

Anyway, the guy filming was just as much in the wrong as the other guy, if not more. It would certainly ruin your day.

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:14 pm

click the cnn one, it has more story to it... the first link is just the in-flight cam.

CNN story about it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTemKnL8X30

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:35 pm

wow crazy