617Dambusters

For those of you who don't know, I manage a social service office for The Salvation Army in Florida.

I received this link today and thought I'd pass it on.

Basically a Salvation Army soldier feels bad that Liddle is getting all this attention but "the other guy" is not. (Both died in a plane crash in NYC for those who never leave the game) The soldier wants a million people to visit this site so he can contact this person's family and tell them how many people out there said prayers on his behalf.

Here's the link
http://www.biop23.com/theotherguy.html

I'm by no means a bible thumper or anything but am religious at heart.

That is all

Seems like there's a bunch of loose ends and unanswered questions with this crash, I guess most of it will come out over time.

Here's a link to the pilot's rumour netwrok thread about it, you can see the story unfold as more info comes in:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=247611

The Sirrus SR-22 has a parachute which can be deployed in emergencies which will allow the whole aircraft to come down at a reasonable rate of descent. It wasn't deployed.

The other guy was an instructor. Apparently the baseball guy had his license for a year or so. They may have been doing a check ride, or an endorsement or something.

I don't think they were high enough in order to use the chute. I heard that you have to have minimum altitude of 1200-1500ft for it to work.

Apparently they were around 1400'. Then they turned sharply 180, and descended. If it was an engine failure, a sharp 180 degree turn is straight out of the "Exactly what NOT to do" book.

Re: Parachute deployment, I found this:

The parachute can be deployed 300ft AGL from a glide and 900ft AGL from a spin. Impact is supposed to destroy the airplane but protect the occupants. Cirrus says touch-down is equilivent to a 10ft drop to the ground. However, in all 5 parachute depoymnets to date, the plane was not destroyed, in fact, some experienced only minor damage, and the passengers all walked away uninjured.