Mid-air collision

[wantok]

You guys seen the news today of this accident at Boulder Municipal airport? They're reporting 3 fatalities. Sorry to hear about the losses and prayers to their families.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=35273678&#35273678

[harleyman]

Wow....That is the first I had heard of that...To bad that happened.....

[Lionheart]

Horrible.

My prayers go out to the the family and loved ones..


I remember seeing footage on YouTube once. A guy's wife made him install an emergency ballistic chute in his homebuilt. So......... One day, he is out flying, climbing out after takeoff, talking into a Mic as he is taping his flight for friends and family, and you suddenly hear a plane engine race by, and a line is in view in front of the window, and bang, destruction, noise, then the horizon is spiraling around the cockpit. He has hit a glider tow cable, the plane crossed his path and he hit the cable, slicing off a wing. He deploys the emergency chute and lives.

Nice to have those ballistic chutes and be able to live through both the accident and the landing.



Bill