Near midair leads to aircraft parachute descent
This video was found featured in the AvWeb site.
According to the description on YouTube:
According to the description on YouTube:
a plane towing a glider nearly collides with a plane and the glider tow line gets caught in the propeller, pulls parachute to safety , nobody injured
posted by Jack Hodgson at
8:09 PM
2 Comments:
Zounds!
I'd guess what ... two or three milliseconds between the near-miss and the chute being deployed? Nothing like making a quick decision, I guess.
In making decisions, of course, it helps to have options.
Guess the guy figured no reason to tarry with a chunk of towline wrapped around the prop and engine shaft...
In making decisions, of course, that option was a great one to have...
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