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Looking at my last post more carefully, the chute had been activated and it (or some part of it) is dragging behind the plane

The report will be interesting.



Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

Peter wrote:

Looking at my last post more carefully, the chute had been activated and it is dragging behind the plane

It’s not the parachute but the right wing tip…

From https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=222891

it struck a 4 foot high fence, located 60 feet from the runway end. Past this fence, the terrain slopes down toward 16th Avenue, which crosses the departure path perpendicularly. The aircraft crossed 16th Avenue in the air, in a right bank, and dragging the right wing tip. The aircraft passed directly in front of a tow truck that was in the westbound lane, and the driver of the vehicle captured the event on dash-camera. North of 16th Avenue, the terrain rises rapidly; the aircraft collided with the ground, and came to a stop
approximately 250 feet past the end of Runway 33. The two occupants were wearing 4-point safety belts and received no significant injuries. The aircraft received significant damage to the wings, nose, tail, landing gear, and propeller.

The chute door is open

Watch the video carefully. There is a long thin rope training behind the plane as it passes across the road.

Administrator
Shoreham EGKA, United Kingdom

The chute door is opened also in flight.

LDZA LDVA, Croatia

That’s the rear window….before you get ahead of yourself

Last Edited by mmgreve at 27 Nov 11:51
EGTR

Yep, definitely a window not a chute door. Here’s an uncrashed Cirrus to compare with :-)

Andreas IOM

And for the avoidance of doubt, this is where the parachute is (the aperture where it comes from doesn’t seem to be visible as a “door” until the parachute is released, so it’s probably more of a panel that gets blown off):

From the looks of the C-reg plane in the dashcam video, there’s absolutely no way any part of the chute is deployed, the long thin object we see in the dashcam video is probably from something the plane struck as it was crashing.

Last Edited by alioth at 27 Nov 12:30
Andreas IOM

Deliberate pull of the chute after a runway excursion ????!!!

Maybe for those who are used to put anchors or flying F16

Paris/Essex, France/UK, United Kingdom

It’s amazing what you can walk away from – after the violence of this crash, the occupants walk away:



The kid walking down the road was extremely lucky.

Andreas IOM

Phew… looks like all the energy absorbed very luckily on the parts of the plane that they were not exposed to (tail/wings).

always learning
LO__, Austria
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