Amazing Airplane Crash - Prevented!
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Stumble ThisThe pilot was flying through beautiful European skies, when suddenly a glider-towing plane flew right in front of him. The glider-towing rope went into the propeller of the first plane. What did the pilot do? He deployed his ballistic recovery parachute and descended to Earth with no power, slowed by his chute. You'll see the accident, hear the wrenching of the motor, and hear the chute take on the load of the plane.
I didn't even know planes had chutes.
http://www.brsparachutes.com/default.aspx
And the description could use some corrections too:
"He ejected his ballistic recovery parachute and floated his entire plan to Earth with no power."
You don't eject a parachute, you deploy it, if you eject it, it wouldn't do any good. He didn't float the plane, the plane still fell, but was slowed by the parachute.
fdisk: no, you can't control a plane after deploying a recovery parachute, they're usually used as a last resort.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this on here before too.
> Oh and the crash was the fault of the pilot in this plane.
Are you sure you can determine fault from this video? Right of way would go to the plane on the right if a concious avoidance was made by two planes on a collision course. "You move!" "No you move!" "I'm to the right, so I have the right of way!" Right of way does not mean if a plane collides into the right side of your aircraft that it is automatically your fault because it came from the right. (correct?) / (incorrect?) IANAP (though I have 20+ hrs solo time and would be excited if pilot died of a heart attack and I got to fly the passengers to safety)
Rights-of-way are as follows: aircraft in an emergency, balloon, glider, airship, tow plane, heavier-than-air powered aircraft.
I've seen lots of incidents in which that instinct to yank back on the yoke/stick causes the accident...mostly on approach/departure stall situations.
I'm just amazed that he deployed the chute in such an extreme bank angle, seems as though his first thought was of the chute and not righting the aircraft and looking for a landing spot (which he should have had picked out already)
Oh well... at least nobody was hurt.
Engine out landings are a skill that is required in order to earn a pilot's license and should be frequently practiced afterward along with other basic skills such as stall recovery, spin recovery, dead reckoning, etc. After all, you never know when an emergency situation might develop.