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xoxoxoBruce · 02-03-2020, 10:58 PM

This family was 5 miles from Aspen, CO when the instruments went crazy and it appeared the engine would quit.
He had to make a split second decision and chose to pull the chute on the Cirrus airplane while he was still
high enough for it to work. The plane ended up in waist deep snow with the chute snagged on a tree which kept
then from sliding down the slope. No one hurt and rescued by the next day as rescue crews snowshoed in.
Took them 3 hours to shoeshoe out.

The plane and chute system from Cirrus Aircraft, Duluth, MN.
Parent organization: Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC)

02-03-2020, 10:58 PM	#1037
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	This family was 5 miles from Aspen, CO when the instruments went crazy and it appeared the engine would quit. He had to make a split second decision and chose to pull the chute on the Cirrus airplane while he was still high enough for it to work. The plane ended up in waist deep snow with the chute snagged on a tree which kept then from sliding down the slope. No one hurt and rescued by the next day as rescue crews snowshoed in. Took them 3 hours to shoeshoe out. The plane and chute system from Cirrus Aircraft, Duluth, MN. Parent organization: Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.