Posted on 09/18/2008 1:55:37 PM PDT by pabianice
Federal investigators are on their way to Douglass, Kansas to investigate the crash of a Cessna Skycatcher LSA prototype Thursday. The pilot of the test aircraft was able to parachute to safety and was reportedly taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Cessna media relations personnel were unable to immediately respond to AVweb's request for more detailed information, but KAKE Television is reporting the aircraft crashed into a treeline near the boundary of Butler and Cowley Counties. The television station is quoting witnesses as saying they heard a loud pop and then saw sparks and the plane spiraling down. The pilot landed in a field about 400 yards from the aircraft. The TV station quoted a Cessna spokesman as saying the crash aircraft had about 150 hours on it.
The prototype first flew on March 8, and Cessna is planning on delivering the first customer aircraft in the first half of 2009. What the crash does to that schedule is unclear. There are close to 1,000 orders for the aircraft, which will be built in China and reassembled in three plants in the U.S.
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I guess you didn’t really knead the job anyway.
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As is fitting and proper...
Cessna prototype crashes? Built in China??
Gezzz...
Nothing implied at all:
The pilot of the test aircraft was able to parachute to safety
Was the prototype, or was that to just have been the production units? The article says "which *will* be built in China".
Slim would never!!
LOL!
That bread factory bit was from an old Three Stooges film.
Still got a rise out of me...
UUUHH, Article say pilot land 400 yards from plane.
That means pilot was wearing a chute, probably required for test porpoises. sp on porpoise.
If aircraft was out of control, very difficult to exit, especially with a chute on, unless the doors were removed before flight.
I already corrected myself. Thanks.
Yes, and I should have read further down where there were multiples of what I said long before I said it. Oh well, I will definitely be interested in the cause of the crash.
Didn’t think that test pilots (for small general aircraft prototypes) took parachutes up witht hem.
Did those test porpoises help him get away from the killer well?
“Didnt think that test pilots (for small general aircraft prototypes) took parachutes up witht hem.”
Depends on what they are doing. Certain atitudes require a parachute and there may be rules for experimental aircraft of that type.
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