Incredible!!!

[xcarguy]

And everyone lived to tell the tale. :blueangel:

 

[yellowss7]

People who go up in small planes are just nuts. :jester:

[Croc]

They are not nuts - I learned to jump out of small planes quite happily, 120 something jumps to my credit before I decided I had cheated death enough. What is nuts is me reaching 2 million miles on United Scarelines last year. Why could I not find a better airline? Oh wait, there isn't one in North America!

:dupe:

 

 

 

Anyway, I had seen this video earlier and seen some other not public documentation that went with this oops moment. Plane on top could not see the lower one and vice versa because of the lack of visibility. They have had a few of these collisions over the Hudson River in NYC which works on visual rules for the most part with the light aircraft corridor. FAA was not too impressed from what I read - lack of planning/coordination/risk management/etc. Lucky both pilots had parachutes harnessed on and knew how to jump (not difficult - just fall towards the ground ), although the upper plane's pilot managed to somehow land his aircraft in one piece. They would not have enjoyed the accident investigation. Did either lose their license or get a penalty? I never found out.

 

The luckiest guy was the one who ended up straddling the fuselage of the lower plane during the collision. He could have easily been crushed or knocked unconscious or sliced apart in the shredded debris.

 

Whats Biggles's professional view of this one? (Hi Shane!:seeya:)

Edited May 19, 2016 by Croc

[papak]

I used to fly the skydiving club on Sunday mornings at Ft. Stewart, GA back in 1970. Looks like they were going for a 7 man formation of some sort (star?). We used a UH-1 with the doors off. We dropped them from 13,500' so they could get the 60 second freewill. Much safer to form up on the skid before letting go. Being in a chopper, the pilots never had chutes. With a light fuel load, we could get 8-10 guys in the back. Truthfully, I was never much interested in jumping out of airplanes.

[Shoe String Racing]

Everyone gets to pick their own poison.

 

After 4100 jumps and 48 years, and a jump plane owner and pilot flying formations loads just like that one, I still marvel at how everyone assesses risk and wants to inform me of what my risk exposure is.

 

I think driving a 7 in city traffic is right up there on the risk meter with BASE jumps and wing suit flying in canyons. Well almost.........JMHOWTFDIK?

 

And, plenty more where that came from; there's a FB page I Love Skydiving that shows nothing but stupid shit and near disasters.

Edited May 20, 2016 by Shoe String Racing
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