Check out THIS crazy video !
05-29-2007, 09:18 PM
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skydiving accidents
That one has been out for a while.
The procedure is, ATC steers aircraft away from an area before a drop, or advises when they have left, and advises who is still around if they are. I guess this video was not in a supervised area. The pilot of the airplane was in the wrong here, because he should have heard the 2 minute warning and seen where the divers were. He either didn't hear it or didn't know to do anything, both of which are incompetent on his behalf. The skydive pilot should try and be sure he does not see anyone in the area before letting go of the door.
Occasionally an aircraft has to share an airport with skydivers in the air, it happens from time to time, but the skydivers are supposed to stay on their side of the runway, and the pilot is supposed to issue advisories on what the status of the jump is. The DZ where I work is under radar coverage above 2000, we never have a close call because no aircraft are around.
Once I was safetying for a pilot who wanted to fly through a hot drop zone; we got the 2 minute call but weren't sure it was a local dropzone as there are several. I saw a skydiver less than mile away and immediately diverted. This kind of thing happens from time to time. Skydiving accidents are not normally from collisons with airplanes, they are from collisions with other skydivers. The average is 30 deaths a year for skydivers, among thousands of jumps made every day in the US. Compare that to 40,000 highway fatalities in an average year. Those few deaths almost always have to do with jumper error in doing things that are risky. A few are true, unpredictable accidents usually due to fuel starvation in the aircraft, which arguably is not a happenstance event. There are extremely few "malfunctions" of parachutes, and collisions with aircraft and even fewer than that.
The procedure is, ATC steers aircraft away from an area before a drop, or advises when they have left, and advises who is still around if they are. I guess this video was not in a supervised area. The pilot of the airplane was in the wrong here, because he should have heard the 2 minute warning and seen where the divers were. He either didn't hear it or didn't know to do anything, both of which are incompetent on his behalf. The skydive pilot should try and be sure he does not see anyone in the area before letting go of the door.
Occasionally an aircraft has to share an airport with skydivers in the air, it happens from time to time, but the skydivers are supposed to stay on their side of the runway, and the pilot is supposed to issue advisories on what the status of the jump is. The DZ where I work is under radar coverage above 2000, we never have a close call because no aircraft are around.
Once I was safetying for a pilot who wanted to fly through a hot drop zone; we got the 2 minute call but weren't sure it was a local dropzone as there are several. I saw a skydiver less than mile away and immediately diverted. This kind of thing happens from time to time. Skydiving accidents are not normally from collisons with airplanes, they are from collisions with other skydivers. The average is 30 deaths a year for skydivers, among thousands of jumps made every day in the US. Compare that to 40,000 highway fatalities in an average year. Those few deaths almost always have to do with jumper error in doing things that are risky. A few are true, unpredictable accidents usually due to fuel starvation in the aircraft, which arguably is not a happenstance event. There are extremely few "malfunctions" of parachutes, and collisions with aircraft and even fewer than that.
Last edited by Cubdriver; 05-30-2007 at 04:28 AM.
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