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PostMon Apr 03, 2017 6:13 pm 
Plane crash occurred yesterday (2 Apr 2017) on Mt. Jupiter, and the passenger & pilot survived, yeah! (pretty amazing when you see the photo, looks like the plane plowed right into the slope)

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PostMon Apr 03, 2017 7:32 pm 
By that picture they were going slow and the snow absorbed the impact. The wings are still together.

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PostMon Apr 03, 2017 8:15 pm 
I just thought it was pretty cool that the pilot was able to maneuver the plane in such a way to just kinda... nose in to the snow. Given the need to maintain lift and some control I thought you had to have some sort of substantial forward airspeed (>80 MPH). Obviously the density of the snow can vary a lot and maybe the winds were favorable, but I thought it was strange not to see any other marks in the picture that indicated some sort of skidding to a halt (maybe there out of the frame of the picture and the plane skidded then "hopped" into it final resting position). Hopefully the two folks did not suffer any serious injuries (I imagine any kind of even "straightforward"plane crash would have been like at least a somewhat low-ish speed car crash in terms of the deceleration impulse they would have felt)

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PostMon Apr 03, 2017 9:25 pm 
Best the pilot could do under the circumstances. up.gif

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PostMon Apr 03, 2017 10:22 pm 
Stall speed is 69 mph (60 kts). Must be a skillful pilot.

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PostTue Apr 04, 2017 12:47 am 
Is that black spot at the top rear of the fuselage where the parachute comes out? It's a feature of several Cirrus aircraft. I'd think they'd want to get rid of it. Helicopter downwash can be a moderate pain without a big parachute filling. A parachute might explain the relatively benign damage to the ship.

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PostMon Apr 24, 2017 2:26 pm 
meck wrote:
the passenger & pilot survived
up.gif up.gif Absolutely fantastic news! I thought for sure someone didn't make it when seeing the title.

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PostTue May 02, 2017 8:56 am 
Curious as to where on the mountain the crash occurred. Our living room looks right out at Mt. Jupiter.

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PostTue May 02, 2017 3:54 pm 
alpendave wrote:
Curious as to where on the mountain the crash occurred.
The preliminary NTSB report describes the location as "4 NM southwest of Mount Christie, at an elevation of 4,700 feet MSL."

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PostTue May 02, 2017 4:03 pm 
Interesting Mt. Jupiter is a long ways from Mt. Christie. Edit: According to google it is 22.5 miles from Mt. Christie to Mt. Jupiter. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=distance+from+mt.+christie+to+mt.+jupiter&spf=73 After thinking about this I think they probably meant .4 NM southwest of Mount Jupiter rather then Mount Christie.

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PostTue May 02, 2017 6:23 pm 
reststep wrote:
I think they probably meant .4 NM southwest of Mount Jupiter
That would put the site near 47.7 -123.07. Perhaps NTSB will realize the error when they try to recover the plane.

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