Sunday, March 15, 2009

Gaithersburg Plane Crash

This crashed seconds after it flew over my house. Click the images below to enlarge them. You can see how close it came to hitting a house.

Looking at the propeller, it might have stopped turning before the plane hit the ground. The large orange and white thing that looks like a sail is a safety parachute that was attached to the plane.

I hear no one was injured, which bodes well for the parachute scheme on these small planes. The clouds were very low and when this plane flew over my house, it sounded very close, but I never saw it. A few seconds later...bang, down it went.



Crappy video below, it was cold.

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