10/12 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/sports/baseball/08yankees.html
Flight instructor who died with Cory Lidle:
"Part of Stanger's job is to surprise students by simulating
emergencies. He will pull the throttle to the idle position,
essentially letting the plane coast as if the engine were failing."
CNN: "No confirmation that plane issued mayday call before hitting
high-rise"
\_ "The whole plane has a parachute on it, ...... But if you're up in
the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the
whole plane goes down slowly." What? Is that just a metaphor?
\_ No, the plane has a Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System that lowers
the whole plane to the ground. Questionable effectiveness,
one person got crushed vertebrate, another was flying too fast
and the chute ripped off, another was in a death spiral and
the chute didn't operate correctly |