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Plane crashes, no pilot found
Plane was on auto pilot and crashed after it ran out of fuel. (www.foxnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Strange stuff happens. Eons ago I was ferrying a Piper Geronimo from Albuquerque to Cincinnati for auto-pilot repair. During takeoff I noticed the top door latch was open. I figured I close it in cruise. I trimmed the plane up, opened the vent window, slid over to the right seat, and proceeded to try to close door. It wasn't working and I was getting frustrated. I got the brilliant idea to hold the two latches, shove the door open as far as I could, and then hopefully catch the latches as it slammed back shut. Well, I shoved and I'm not sure what the plane did, but next thing I knew I was sitting out on the wing with my feet in the right footwell and my heart beating up around my adam's apple. I scurried back inside, stopped at the next airport and found that the top latch was broke and was never going to latch. If I had been tossed out of that plane, it would probably have come down hundreds of miles away with no pilot onboard. The story would have been; "Why did a young guy that seemed to have so much going for him decide to jump out of the airplane?" I hope the above story turns out ok, but you never know.
Same here. I used to fly skydivers in 182s and one of the planes had a seatbelt that would click in but not lock sometimes. After they jumped I would bank to the right and lean over to close the door and I almost slipped out a couple times because the seatbelt was not locked. Of course I was wearing a parachute but sometimes I think about my would be explanation to the NTSB.
So did you wash your shorts, or just throw them away?
Its actually amazing how tight the sphincter gets when something like that happens.
That is crazy... Glad you did not become an Incident or a Mystery :)
Yes, that was a definite transaction between my bag of luck and bag of experience!
Definitely in the "the next time I do that it will be a mistake" category
Certainly had an error chain going. The worst link was failing to buckle back up when I changed seats. Since then I've never failed to buckle my butt to whatever seat I'm in.