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Turbulence From A Blackhawk Helicopter Flips A Small Plane
More than 25 seconds after a departing Blackhawk Sikorsky UH-60 takes off from Runway 33 in Fort Collins, Colorado, a student pilot attempted to land a Cirrus SR20 and was tossed like a rag doll after descending through the massive rotor downwash! I got into a bit of downwash from a Eurocopter...Tags: crash, vortex, rotors
- Watch out folks. Looks like distracted flying can be an issue. Fly safe! Thoughts?
Tags: selfie, photo, flash, crash, cessna
- ..... UPDATE 4PM "HIS JACKET COULD HAVE SAVED HIM": pilot's fight for life SURF lifesavers who pulled the pilot of a downed light aircraft out of the water say his waterproof jacket could have saved him. Surf Life Saving Queensland duty officer Guy Tanner said the IRB w...
Tags: crash, csi
- Sad day my friends. We have a pilot down. RIP brother and my condoleneces to those who knew and loved you.
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- This is all I can find now. I remember reading about it when it happened, Omar Contreras was planning to fly his trike over the highest peaks in the Andes to riase money for charity. He was an EXTREMELY experienced pilot. He had Oxygen available, but reportedly he did not lik...
Tags: Fatality, Crash, Hypoxia, blackout, Oxygen, Conquest of the Andes, Chimborazo, Ecuador, Trike, oacute, pilotos, latitudes, jorge, accident
Survival training for after a ditching: Staying alive
From AOPA Shivering and panting in the waters just off the Southern California coast, I gripped the white straps of the life raft ladder, found the lowest rung with my foot, and paused. My heart was still racing from hitting the 65-degree water—warm by ocean standards, but cool enoug...Tags: Ditching, Survival, Cold, Water, Crash, article, mdash, ladder, water
Survival: A grief-stricken father’s mission
"“She ended up freezing to death out there” Lenz said, ... “She succumbed to hypothermia and collapsed face down in the snow. She ended up freezing to death out there by herself.”" Mark Lenz has the rest of his life to wonder what might have been, to ponde...Tags: Wilderness, Survival, Crash, Cold, Fatality, Death, Flight Plan, ELT, GPS Locator Beacon, 121.5 MHz, emergency locator transmitter, survived, succumbing, miles, daughter shyann, freezing to death
Asiana 777 Crash: Shocking Inside Perspective their training and results seen at SFO
I got this email from a friend here at AllTrikes. It's an apparent insider's perspective on why the crash of the Korean Asiana 777 at San Francisco (SFO) 5 days ago was inevitable and his thought that more are bound to happen. &...Tags: Asiana, 777, Crash, Inside Perspective, training, SFO, San Francisco, Korean, Automation, Autopilot, Simulator, VFR, CAVOK, accidents, totally, figured, accordance, continued
Plane Explodes around Skydivers as two jump planes collide (Video)
Video HERE or HERE NBC paid $100K for exclusive footage, so it can only be seen on NBC site (hard to get a good link from them)Tags: Crash, Collision, Skydivers, Fireball, today
- this was 2006, Crankshaft seized (hirth 65hp) i was cruising along, fat dumb and happy,30ft up when the deafening sound of silence occured, my crank had seized. 5secs later i stalled into the brush and the front wheel hit the stump that had patiently waited years and years for me to hit it. over...
Tags: Engine Out, Engine Out landing, Crash