Its great the parachute worked for this buy, but I love some of the quotes in this article which blame the plane for mysteriously going out of control
- [size=-1]Albert Kolk's small plane banked uncontrollably in darkness over the Monashee mountains, then began spiraling. [/size]
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Kolk, a rancher who was piloting his private plane April 8 from Seattle to his ranch in British Columbia, remembered reaching for the parachute handle as his plane slipped into a dangerous flat spin over the mountains in British Columbia, "like how a dog chases its tail."
A seasoned pilot, Kolk said he had never experienced such a disaster in over a decade of private flying.
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People are crazy not to fly with them," said William Graham of San Diego, an instructor pilot whose plane landed beneath a parachute this spring near Stockton, Calif., after it unexpectedly flipped upside down at 16,000 feet.
And of course Cirrus is being sued for 67 million beacause a parachute failed to open.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=6&u=/ap/20041222/ap_on_hi_te/airplane_parachutes
- [size=-1]Albert Kolk's small plane banked uncontrollably in darkness over the Monashee mountains, then began spiraling. [/size]
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Kolk, a rancher who was piloting his private plane April 8 from Seattle to his ranch in British Columbia, remembered reaching for the parachute handle as his plane slipped into a dangerous flat spin over the mountains in British Columbia, "like how a dog chases its tail."
A seasoned pilot, Kolk said he had never experienced such a disaster in over a decade of private flying.
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People are crazy not to fly with them," said William Graham of San Diego, an instructor pilot whose plane landed beneath a parachute this spring near Stockton, Calif., after it unexpectedly flipped upside down at 16,000 feet.
And of course Cirrus is being sued for 67 million beacause a parachute failed to open.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=6&u=/ap/20041222/ap_on_hi_te/airplane_parachutes