Originally Posted by
Silent-AV8R
The car that was hit was parked on the shoulder at the time of the accident. The driver had pulled over to do something with the Bluetooth in the car.
That particular Lancair did not have a BRS.
He was reportedly looking like he was going to land on the Palomar RC field until seeing the field was occupied by numerous people and rider mowers doing a field day event.
Weirdly enough, the same plane, with a different owner and pilot at the time, made an emergency landing on I-15 back in 2000.
Somebody died in this, so way to go turing a tragedy for that person's family into fodder for an epically stupid thread on RCU, and that is saying something considering the inane exchanges that occur in this forum.
So Bill , Having an emergency chute on ALL small GA aircraft is "Inane" and "stupid" , is it ?
When it damned well COULD have saved the automobile's occupant's life ?
Maybe both you and pooba need a lesson in what "tongue in cheek" means regarding horns on aircraft , but the parachute issue is very real , and SHAME ON YOU for evoking the "somebody died so you can't talk about this" defense , that shows YOUR need to find conflict in everything , rather than add meaningful content to anything .
YES Bill , this tragedy is the textbook example of how safety is only applied in aviation where it's convienent . Sorry your SO blinded by your obvious grief to see that !
PS , a "tragedy" , by it's very nature , involves death . Maybe we shouldn't ever talk about ANY death , eh Bill ? Maybe we should do like you would , put our heads in the sand and never examine the WHY of these deaths ?
With thinking like Bill's , we'd still be using Hydrogen in blimps , cause we'd have never discussed the Hindenberg , cause , well , after all , some people actually DIED there , and it'd be too much for poor poor Bill's grief to handle ....