Comment by Patrick Hammer on August 18, 2010 at 12:00pm

.... thats' one 'chute manufacturer smiling all the way to the bank ..............

Comment by Jonathan Lussier on August 18, 2010 at 1:27pm

Yes, it's a great development - hopefully more and more homebuilders and GA will start using this. Without that chute he would of been a dead man.

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on August 18, 2010 at 1:39pm

Wow

Comment by Chris McNair on August 18, 2010 at 4:18pm

Although he may not have been able to escape. When doing aerobatics we are required to wear a chute. Great to see this footage. It really looks like a hard hit when he does get to the ground. Better than being a smoking crater!

Comment by Greg Fletcher on August 18, 2010 at 7:07pm

Low level aerobatics may not leave time to bail out and open a chute. Its the ballistic deployment that saves you.
Closest thing we have to an ejection seat. I friend of mine has a $100K new plane witch includes a $6K BRS chute. Really gives you a comfortable feeling having it there.

Moderator Comment by Sgt Ric on August 18, 2010 at 7:40pm

A few months ago, I remember news footage of a GA midair in the states involving an aircraft with a ballistic chute system... unfortunately by the time it landed, the entire aircraft was destroyed by fire.
The view of the burning craft slowly descending was shocking.

Moderator Comment by Dr Mike Black on August 19, 2010 at 1:54am

Hes a Lucky boy!

he had better pray harder to all things 'wing joiner' in future....

Lordy...quite shocking..


Mike.

Comment by simonl on August 19, 2010 at 5:58am

One lucky dude. He'd obviously not seen this: extreme one-wing landing :-O

Comment by mook on August 19, 2010 at 9:40am

@simonl
that video is clearly CGI

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