Ex-Walmart CEO pulls chute

Derg said:
There's an intruder in your home with a gun, but it's an open-carry state, is he simply lost or is he a threat? :)
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Depends on the position of his firearm at time of contact. I see where you are going with that.
 
BarbieDreamPilot said:
yep. Only fatalities when deployed within the envelope were from people jumping out of a plane stuck in a tree canopy.
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That sucks. Did the plane come down in some isolated area where the pilot and passengers felt the risk from jumping down was worth it versus waiting for a rescue?
 
Derg said:
There's an intruder in your home with a gun, but it's an open-carry state, is he simply lost or is he a threat? :)
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Vector said:
Depends on the position of his firearm at time of contact. I see where you are going with that.
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If he's inside my home, and he had drawn his weapon, he's a threat. Plain and simple. If it's still in a holster, then I'll invite him to please leave my home. At gunpoint.
 
Maybe I misread it, but I didn't see anything say the engine ever quite. Why wouldn't he just fly it to the airport? I would hold off on popping the chute til I had no other options.
 
Acrofox said:
Three souls aboard, three survivors, no major injuries.

Who cares about hypotheticals? Might have gone for a road and hit a powerline, or an unexpected car... then we'd be talking about him and asking "Well why didn't he pull the chute?" or saying "Just bad luck." or maybe "Ah Cirrus, the new doctor killer."

My thoughts anyway.

-Fox
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Probably easier to avoid a power line while controlling the airplane than while floating down at the whims of the wind.
 
Dexter said:
View attachment 33300 Was sitting in my apartment drinking my morning coffee when I heard a loud pop noise- what I now know was the chute deploying. Plane landed about 1000 feet from the high school and 1500-2000 feet from an apartment complex. Hilly area with no real strips around to put the plane down, though they weren't too far from KFYV. My friend gave him instruction when he bought the cirrus. Pretty new airplane. Glad no one was hurt.
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Holy Shikies!!! A Chik-Filet on MLK Blvd. Anyone else having a chuckle?
 
Cptnchia said:
If he's inside my home, and he had drawn his weapon, he's a threat. Plain and simple. If it's still in a holster, then I'll invite him to please leave my home. At gunpoint.
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Yup. I'd hold him at gunpoint, and hit 'play' on the following in my home entertainment theater system:



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ComplexHiAv8r said:
The seats (at least in mine) were rated at 26G.
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A crashworthy rating up to 26G doesn't mean that you are going to dust yourself off and walk away. More like "there is a low probability that you will have serious back injuries". As I noted before there have been several serious back injuries resulting from the impact under the CAPS parachute. The risk of injury was so great that the test program never actually rode the parachute to the ground.

Don't get me wrong, I think the parachute is a wonderful safety tool. It has saved several hundred lives. Based on the sketchy information about this crash, I probably would have used it if I were in this pilot's shoes. However, I disagree with the concept of "when in doubt pull this handle and it will save you."
 
Crop Duster said:
Nope. It's a "racist, sexist, homophobic restaurant placing itself on a street named after a civil rights leader" kind of ironic chuckle.
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Which is why it is a stupid and idiotic comment. S. Truett Cathy didn't have racist bone in his body. He hired blacks in the 1940's in segregated Atlanta and in 2009 received an award from the king center. You sir are a racist pig.


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Crop Duster said:
Nope. It's a "racist, sexist, homophobic restaurant placing itself on a street named after a civil rights leader" kind of ironic chuckle.
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Must have never been through ATL and seen the workers there. They have black, female, lesbians working for them there. Maybe it's just corporate...
 
NickH said:
Maybe. Of course, the minimum deployment altitude is 1000', which should have been more than enough to make it to that beautiful flat paved area bottom left of the picture. Which might still exist, the picture, of course, not being real time. Second guessing is easy.
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It's a parking lot for the football and baseball stadium filled with light poles and high trees from the north side (where they were gliding from). It usually has cars in it and it's beside a very busy road. Would be nearly impossible to put it down without clipping something or causing a big collision.
 
I saw the poles in the picture, very easily avoided. The cars are, of course, an unknown. It is almost completely empty in the picture. Now we do know for certain that the aerial photo was taken mid-morning, probably very close to the time of the crash, and on a weekday, so for purposes of my worthless second guess I'm going to assume that the number and location of parked cars is exactly the same as in the photo. Based on that assumption, combined with the altitude that I already assumed they had, I'm still thinking the risk of trying to land might have been smaller than the risk of pulling the chute. Maybe.
 
NickH said:
I saw the poles in the picture, very easily avoided. The cars are, of course, an unknown. It is almost completely empty in the picture. Now we do know for certain that the aerial photo was taken mid-morning, probably very close to the time of the crash, and on a weekday, so for purposes of my worthless second guess I'm going to assume that the number and location of parked cars is exactly the same as in the photo. Based on that assumption, combined with the altitude that I already assumed they had, I'm still thinking the risk of trying to land might have been smaller than the risk of pulling the chute. Maybe.
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Pulling the chute gives you way better odds than trying to Bob and weave in between poles and cars.
 
USMCmech said:
A crashworthy rating up to 26G doesn't mean that you are going to dust yourself off and walk away. More like "there is a low probability that you will have serious back injuries". As I noted before there have been several serious back injuries resulting from the impact under the CAPS parachute. The risk of injury was so great that the test program never actually rode the parachute to the ground. Don't get me wrong, I think the parachute is a wonderful safety tool. It has saved several hundred lives. Based on the sketchy information about this crash, I probably would have used it if I were in this pilot's shoes. However, I disagree with the concept of "when in doubt pull this handle and it will save you."
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Understand and you have to be careful as stepping on the seats on entry/exit as (I was told) you could reduce its effectiveness.

I could also imagine this thread if the pilot decided to try and glide it in at 70+ knots onto a busy road taking out multiple cars and hurting many people on the ground. "Why didn't he just pull the chute?"
 
ComplexHiAv8r said:
Understand and you have to be careful as stepping on the seats on entry/exit as (I was told) you could reduce its effectiveness.

I could also imagine this thread if the pilot decided to try and glide it in at 70+ knots onto a busy road taking out multiple cars and hurting many people on the ground. "Why didn't he just pull the chute?"
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You never want to kneel or put pressure on the seats. The honeycombs are designed to crush if force is applied to then. Prolonged kneeling on the seats can cause the honeycombs to crush and be ineffective
 
Jordan93 said:
You never want to kneel or put pressure on the seats. The honeycombs are designed to crush if force is applied to then. Prolonged kneeling on the seats can cause the honeycombs to crush and be ineffective
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That was always part of my briefing of everyone before we got in the plane. How to entry/exit the aircraft property.
 
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