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Plane Crash in Fayetteville
Posted on 11/3/15 at 10:22 am
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Posted on 11/3/15 at 10:31 am to 870Hog
Did Petrino strike again?
Posted on 11/3/15 at 10:31 am to 870Hog
A plane with a parachute? Wth?
Posted on 11/3/15 at 10:34 am to Old Sarge
It's the new extreme sport. Planediving.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 10:45 am to Old Sarge
It's a Cirrus. They come standard, I believe. You can also have other makes and models retrofitted with them. They save lives if used appropriately and under the right conditions.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:03 am to DownSouthJukin
No fatalities reported yet.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:11 am to Person of interest
Not even any injuries. Kind of a non-event, other than cool videos.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:20 am to 870Hog
My friend was right by FHS and watched it happen
Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:24 am to I Ham That I Ham
Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:28 am to Person of interest
That's great news
Posted on 11/3/15 at 11:32 am to Old Sarge
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:37 pm to Numberwang
If I ever buy a plane, a Cirrus is on the short list. That's pretty amazing.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 12:44 pm to 870Hog
I have been saying this since I was 10 years old.
" put parachutes on the planes"
" put parachutes on the planes"
Posted on 11/3/15 at 1:01 pm to 870Hog
Glad they had the parachute. That plane landed literally 150 feet from Fayetteville High.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 1:29 pm to Numberwang
Posted on 11/3/15 at 1:49 pm to DownSouthJukin
A little plane like that should have been able to glide down without problem. Why deploy the chute if there wasn't a controls malfunction?
Posted on 11/3/15 at 1:49 pm to rantfan
Harder than it sounds to put a parachute on a plane. Has to be able to store it, release it, and attach to the frame in a way that it won't just get ripped off. Also, planes are designed to crash relatively level and going forward so it could kill you. Small planes are often capable of effectively gliding without engine power and many pilots would prefer to take their chances gliding in. Finally, gotta make sure it is reliable cause you don't want it to come out by accident or if the pilot panicked and used it at the wrong time.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 2:30 pm to GnashRebel
I saw one deployed by a panicked pilot one time. He was maybe 30' above some trees and near a baseball field. If he had waited five second would have drifted down on level ground. As it was, he dove into the trees before the parachute caught air and he fell fifty feet to the ground. Cuts and bruises but he walked away. The plane was destroyed. It was the first flight of a homebuilt he spent 4000 hours putting together. Didn't have a pilots license either. I thought maybe toward the end of the construction he maybe should have of invested in some lessons.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 3:39 pm to Old Sarge
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A little plane like that should have been able to glide down without problem. Why deploy the chute if there wasn't a controls malfunction?
There are a lot of variables involved in making that decision. I trust the guy behind the yoke to have made the right decision for what was occurring at the time.
Posted on 11/3/15 at 3:45 pm to DownSouthJukin
It may or may not have been the right decision under his/her circumstances but if the pilot can walk away from that situation I will call it a victory.
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