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04-02-13, 01:30 AM | #1 | |
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Man falls from single engine airplane
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What a terrible way to go.
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04-02-13, 01:35 AM | #2 |
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Terrible indeed. Link?
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04-02-13, 01:41 AM | #3 |
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04-02-13, 01:57 AM | #4 |
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So, after looking at pics of this type of aircraft, the cockpit is enclosed. Educate a layman about how the canopy came off, and secondly, if the instructor wasn't wearing a seatbelt either, how come he wasn't ejected as well?
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04-02-13, 02:08 AM | #5 |
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Initial reports are always lacking. I think just one person failed to wear the safety belt. This is an upward opening plexiglass canopy, with enough weight of the individual and force, say from zero g maneuvering, an unbelted passenger could float into the plexiglass canopy forcing it open (or smashing. The glass out altogether) then there is only a lot of air molecules between him and the almighty.
Not sure how that happened to be honest, but 2 went up and 1 returned sans canopy I call shenanigans
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