"Darkwing" theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in message
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"john smith" wrote in message
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CNN noon newscast showed video footage of a Cirrus with parachute
deployed floating in the retention pond of an apartment complex in
Indiannapolis. Four people onboard, all survived.
http://www.wibc.com/news/story.aspx?id=56365
Just bought yesterday???!
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DW
The story from the link above. I like how the pilot was given credit for
avoiding the houses even though the chute was depolyed.
4 Hurt in Plane Crash Near Eagle Creek
8/28/2006
By John Bartholomew and Cheryl Miller
A plane headed to Hilton Head, South Carolina crashed shortly into a
Westside retention pond shortly after takeoff from Eagle Creek Airport late
Monday morning.
“A big splash was all I heard, then over the rooftops where I heard the
noise, there was a parachute,” Mike Cook, who lives in the subdivision near
21st and Raceway, told WIBC News.
Several people who live in the neighborhood jumped into the pond and managed
to get the four people on the plane out of the aircraft and out of the
water.
“We asked them if they were OK, and they said, ‘No,’ so we told them it was
going to be alright, so we got them unbuckled and got them to shore,” Andrea
Smith, one of the first people to reach the plane, told WIBC’s John
Bartholomew.
Officials say the four – the pilot, his wife, his son, and the son’s
girlfriend – were all taken to the hospital. Emergency officials at the
scene say the pilot was unconscious and in critical condition, and at least
one other member of the group was listed in serious condition.
Officials had not released the names of the victims, but they say the family
lives in the Indianapolis area.
Wayne Township Fire Chief Gene Konzen said the parachute witnesses saw was
apparently part of the safety equipment on the plane for emergencies. He
says it appears the pilot guided the plane into the retention pond to avoid
the houses.
The FAA says this was a brand new plane that had just been purchased
yesterday.