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CO-PILOT PLUNGES FROM SMALL PLANE 9,000 FEET OVER TEXAS; PILOT LANDS SAFELY
The Houston Chronicle ^
| 18 November 2002
Posted on 11/18/2002 4:11:02 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
"instructor pilot, the only other person on board, was concentrating on a steep turning maneuver" must not have been very coordinated turns..
note ..more training in steep-turns needed.
To: RedBloodedAmerican
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA...
To: BSunday
Hi there :)
Come here and check this out...
To: Mark Felton
NOT the
WED ONE!!!
Don't EVER touch the WED ONE!!!
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
In flight, it takes tremendous exertion to open door of a Cessna 150, 152, 172 or the like. You are pushing about 1000 square inches into a 80 knot wind!
Pipers are easier (any low wind aircraft is because of laws of aerodynamics I won't do into here) But in a high wing A/C, such as Cessna mentioned above, even if unlatched, door opens about three inches and is very hard to open further.
This was no accident.
To: MindBender26
low wind=LOW WING
To: willy WOXOF
That airport is at 152 ft. elevation. Can two men climb to 9000 ft. in 45 min in a 152? And why so high unless practicing aerobatics. Perhaps a hammerhead.
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posted on
11/18/2002 8:03:49 AM PST
by
wingtip
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
He could have made us all winners.
To: wingtip
I thought maybe they were doing a Chandelle
To: Tennessee_Bob
Hmmmm
To: SerpentDove
Dat wascilly piwot!
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Ritalin or prozac? Place your bets!Oh...oh...that's mean.
To: Jaxter
To: RedBloodedAmerican
I agree it's likely a suicide - he'd have to have removed his seat belt to have fallen out.....I was flying a C150 over the Colorado mountains at 12,000 feet coming out of the mountains toward Boulder at a steep decent rate - the door popped open - scared the Bejeebers out of me, but no way I could have fallen out!
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posted on
11/18/2002 8:14:56 AM PST
by
Froggie
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The latch on 152s is not very solid. I've had the door on 152s open a couple of times on me in mid flight.
But if he was strapped in it shouldn't have been a problem. Hmmm...
To: Froggie
Suffered a brown-out?
To: blackdog
Not to mention, the door in a 152 latches first, then clamps from the inside. Never unbuckle. We found this out the hard way when approsching a mountain ridge on the windward side at a 90 degree angle. My head smashed the air ducts on the ceiling, my family was glued to the cabin ceiling.
I think you're thinking of a 172.
To: RedBloodedAmerican
LOL!!!!! :)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Kremmer said the co-pilot - whose identity was being withheld pending notification of relatives - had a pilot's license but could not fly alone because of an unspecified medical condition. I guess he showed them. Not only did the guy fly without a pilot's license, but he also did it without a plane.
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Maybe just practicing suicide!
I had a 1964 172 that I used for aerial photography for a while.
I would take the right hand door off when I took pictures. A good pilot friend of mine would fly the left seat.
You can be sure I triple checked my seat belt, but I never
felt the least bit uncomfortable flying with the door off.
Sometimes we would intentionally slip the aircraft to the right as I could get sharper photographs and a clearer field of veiw.
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posted on
11/18/2002 8:22:43 AM PST
by
wingtip
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