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One of the planes was a Mesa County Sheriff's Department single-engine Cessna 210 carrying two inmates, a deputy and a pilot. The other was a Cessna 180.

A Cessna 210 is a single engine, high performance, retractable gear aircraft. It can be configured to carry up to 6 passengers, or a combination of passengers and cargo. Cessna has produced more than 9000 of these models, and stopped production in 1985. A 210 could be configured with a turbo charger,and cabin pressurization.

A Cessna 180 is a single engine, fixed gear aircraft. It is a "tailgragger" and one of the most popular "bush" planes ever produced. It can, also, seat up to 6 passengers, or a combination of both passengers and freight. Cessna produced more than 6000 of these models, and they are no longer in production.

The 180 is real a workhorse of an airplane, and is preferred to this day as a bush plane by many who fly to and from remote, unimproved airstrips in places such as Alaska and distant parts of Canada, the Pacific Islands, and Africa. The 180 is used by Colorado Division of Wildlife for monitoring wildlife and re-stocking fish in remote mountain lakes; it is also used by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.

1 posted on 10/22/2008 12:09:31 PM PDT by papasmurf
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To: papasmurf

Will the Media say The One was responsible for this miracle?


2 posted on 10/22/2008 12:10:49 PM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: papasmurf
And this happens only two days after Sarah Palin visited GJ. Coincidence?
3 posted on 10/22/2008 12:10:52 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (The Global Warming Heretic -- http://AGW-Heretic.blogspot.com)
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To: Aeronaut

Perhaps your Aviation pingees might be interested in this?


7 posted on 10/22/2008 12:18:24 PM PDT by papasmurf (I ain't your Daddy's Conservative, OK?)
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To: papasmurf

Post flight debriefing: “Whoa, Dad, what a rush!”


9 posted on 10/22/2008 12:21:43 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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As a private pilot I would like to set the story aright.
It is a 99 44/100% lead pipe cinch that the plane did not “land” upside down. Taildragger airplanes, having no nosewheel to support the plane and prevent it flipping over when the main gear touches down, sometimes do what is known as a “groundloop” in which they flip over on their back. That is surely what happened in this instance. After a second look at the rough vegetation where it landed, it’s obvious that an airplane could not taxi in that stuff, and the instant the wheels descended into that brush and brambles they would have caught and flipped the airplane over on its back.
FWIW.


10 posted on 10/22/2008 12:33:29 PM PDT by Tucker39 (I Tim. 1:15b " .....Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.")
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