Read the forum code of contact
By: 17th November 2008 at 17:29 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It seems he did everything right (Liferaft etc) and still didn't make it.
Ditching at night can't be easy.
Very sad.
Moggy
By: 17th November 2008 at 18:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Be interesting to learn if the parachute was deployed.:confused:
By: 17th November 2008 at 20:27 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The pilot has been named as Alex de Gruchy a local businessman.
I had the pleasure of meeting Alex a number of times over the past year. The last time at the Helping Hands charity event at the Jersey Aeroclub last month where he was one of the pilots who gave up his Saturday to fly disadvantaged children around the island.
By: 17th November 2008 at 22:40 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-The aircraft was N224AG, delivered new this year.
By: 17th November 2008 at 22:58 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Be interesting to learn if the parachute was deployed.:confused:
It will be.
Chute deployment is not SOP for a ditching as the undercarriage can't play its part in absorbing the vertical arrest when it hits, so serious back injury is to be expected.
Moggy
By: 18th November 2008 at 08:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-It would be an interesting debate whether the risks of a water landing with a fixed undercarriage at night would be outweighed by an assisted splashdown in a vertical descent.:confused:
By: 18th November 2008 at 20:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Anyone know the time between pulling the handle and full chute opening? It would be interesting to test what would happen if you glided it down to say 15-20 feet above the water and then popped the chute.
Ryan
By: 18th November 2008 at 20:41 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-Anyone know the time between pulling the handle and full chute opening? It would be interesting to test what would happen if you glided it down to say 15-20 feet above the water and then popped the chute.Ryan
From handle to full envelope is about 4 seconds (If you watch the vids).
By: 19th November 2008 at 03:00 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
-From handle to full envelope is about 4 seconds (If you watch the vids).
Interesting. I fuel one of the Cirrus aircraft (there are two that we hangar) from our hangar several days a week, and there are more at the airport where I work.
Ryan
Posts: 8,847
By: Newforest - 17th November 2008 at 15:06
Unfortunately another Cirrus crash and the pilot did not survive.:(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/7733488.stm