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After a couple of days...
Oct. 12th, 2006 12:22 amWell, as I expected, I am sleeping a great deal, with a bit of "the runs", just like it happened when I first went on it...I am hoping it will not last as long!
I was awoken by CNN again, hearing about the plane that crashed into the apartment building in NYC. Within minutes, I could tell it was not a repeat of 9/11...but from what I heard, listening/watching to various stations & newscasts, it sounds like the pilot, Cory Lidle was getting trained on his new plane with an instructor. It was a Cirrus SR20, which is a very modern plane. It is best known for having a parachute for the plane. I am guessing Lidle learned on a Cessna of some vintage, and the SR20 is a much faster plane, a low wing, as oppossed to a high wing like the Cessna. It has a "glass cockpit", although it does have a few analog gauges...looks like an artificial horizen, airspeed, and I can't make out the other. So, it will probably take a while for a fairly new pilot to get used to using the glass cockpit, and thus the flight instructor.
Flying essentially a "sight seeing" path, they went to "See the Lady", that is, do a couple of circles around the Statue of Liberty, then flew up the East River. At the point where they were, uncontrolled air space ended, and La Guadia controlled airspace began, so they basically had to make a u-turn. Based upon a few comments made by some of the eye-witnesses, (who can sometimes be misleading) it sounds like they ended up in a spin...one of the witnesses said it was descending very fast in a zigzag pattern...to me, that sounds like he was in a spin. My guess is that the instructor took over the plane at that point and tried recover...which he may have done, but too late. By then, they were down between the buildings, and couldn't fly out.
The strange thing is that, as Miles O'Brian of CNN, who flies the same plane, but with a larger engine (SR22), said, they should have deployed the parachute...So either in the panic of the emergency, or the confidence of the instructor, they tried to recover rather than pop the chute...or the chute failed to deploy. I am sure that this will be intensely investigated, and eventually, probably in a year or more, the NTSB will come out with their findings. Although considering the fact that it is New York City, they might be able to put a rush on it. But we'll see.
ttyl
I was awoken by CNN again, hearing about the plane that crashed into the apartment building in NYC. Within minutes, I could tell it was not a repeat of 9/11...but from what I heard, listening/watching to various stations & newscasts, it sounds like the pilot, Cory Lidle was getting trained on his new plane with an instructor. It was a Cirrus SR20, which is a very modern plane. It is best known for having a parachute for the plane. I am guessing Lidle learned on a Cessna of some vintage, and the SR20 is a much faster plane, a low wing, as oppossed to a high wing like the Cessna. It has a "glass cockpit", although it does have a few analog gauges...looks like an artificial horizen, airspeed, and I can't make out the other. So, it will probably take a while for a fairly new pilot to get used to using the glass cockpit, and thus the flight instructor.
Flying essentially a "sight seeing" path, they went to "See the Lady", that is, do a couple of circles around the Statue of Liberty, then flew up the East River. At the point where they were, uncontrolled air space ended, and La Guadia controlled airspace began, so they basically had to make a u-turn. Based upon a few comments made by some of the eye-witnesses, (who can sometimes be misleading) it sounds like they ended up in a spin...one of the witnesses said it was descending very fast in a zigzag pattern...to me, that sounds like he was in a spin. My guess is that the instructor took over the plane at that point and tried recover...which he may have done, but too late. By then, they were down between the buildings, and couldn't fly out.
The strange thing is that, as Miles O'Brian of CNN, who flies the same plane, but with a larger engine (SR22), said, they should have deployed the parachute...So either in the panic of the emergency, or the confidence of the instructor, they tried to recover rather than pop the chute...or the chute failed to deploy. I am sure that this will be intensely investigated, and eventually, probably in a year or more, the NTSB will come out with their findings. Although considering the fact that it is New York City, they might be able to put a rush on it. But we'll see.
ttyl
