Geico266
Touchdown! Greaser!
A sobering video of a pilot deploying his ballistic chute after hitting the tow wire of a tow plane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQKaxp6Rlk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQKaxp6Rlk
Wow -- they came down hard.
That near miss was absolutely preventable, though...
I see what you mean, but I don't think you can call it a near miss when the plane ran into the tow rope. Pretty much a full contact event in my book. As far as being preventable absolutely.
Wait -- "Lionel" had enough control after "a piece of the wing fell off" to fly to a "remote area," but couldn't fly to an airport and land?
On second thought -- why did the first guy pull the chute? Was the airplane structure compromised?
The Cirrus incident is really questionable given the plane continued to fly under control... There was considerable chatter about this one at the time... If I were his insurance broker I might have been tempted to litigate it...
denny-o
If I remember right, a good pre flight would have found the missing hardware that lead to the aileron coming off.