Yes, in the Denver area. Also killed was the aviation editor of the Wall Street Journal, IIRC.A Squared said:Yeah. Michael Chowdry of Atlas died in an L-39 crash.
It's unfortunate that some people with a lot of money buy these airplanes, which are far, far beyond their skill and experience level.
The "partially deployed parachute" was probably the ejection seat drogue chute that slows the seat for man-seat separation. If the pilot was still strapped in the seat on the ground, the man-seat separator probably either failed or, more likely, he was out of the ejection envelope and the seat didn't have time to function correctly.
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