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Bollweevil
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Fulshear, Texanistan
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Mid-Air collision... somebody was not paying attention !!
Cessna (UPS contract plane per later news) collided with a paraglider. Eye witnesses state the Cessna flew into the paraglider. Also per later news, both pilots dead.
Happened just a mile or so from our house? https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/small-plane-reported-down-near-fulshear-dps-says/285-26b413d7-2c4a-4723-88d6-e6aea4930ca8
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12-21-2021, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
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I have had two near mid air collisions in my private aircraft flying neither I nor other aircraft saw one another until last second I yanked and banked to avoid first one with glider in Florida. Second one in Ohio while arriving at a fly in, a low wing airplane descended right over my nose from behind and above me. He never saw me. Still very rare to happen anywhere other than near airports. Big sky...Little airplanes
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12-21-2021, 10:47 AM
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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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wow, horrible luck. I have to think that if you get into a mid-air collision any place except maybe at one end of the runway, it's got to be "your time" because there's A LOT of space and not that many planes, so the odds are pretty low. Except at one end of a runway or the other. That's kind of a high traffic spot.
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12-21-2021, 11:05 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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One didn't seem 'em and I hope the other didn't see it coming .... tragic for both
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12-21-2021, 11:09 AM
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Non Compos Mentis
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Off the grid- Almost
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The human eye is attracted to motion.
Pilots are taught to keep scanning the sky, but if on a straight on collision course, another aircraft just slowly getting bigger, with no apparent movement, one doesn't naturally see it until there is little time to react. Scary stuff, for sure. |
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12-21-2021, 12:09 PM
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Also but maybe not in this particular incident keep in mind closing speed, even in a small single engine aircraft going 150-200mph with another similar speed aircraft at around a 400mph total speed distance evaporates very quickly...
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12-21-2021, 02:53 PM
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