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In article <3A659BC0.2A2F9A42@sympatico.ca>,
Ken Kennedy wrote:
>From the cbc.ca website;
>
>2 die in ultra-light plane collision in Ontario
>WebPosted Fri Jan 12 19:48:39 2001
>
>MATTAWA, ONT. - Two pilots were killed when
>their single-seat planes collided in mid-air over a
>town in northern Ontario on Friday.
>
>Wreckage was scattered over several hundred
>metres.
>
>Stan Lamabe, 60, and Richard Lafreniere, 50,
>died in the crash, which happend around 1 p.m.
>ET over a riverside park.

Midair collision stories are often so tragic. Almost
all planes have blind spots. Especially tragic if
both pilots knew the other was nearby. We ultralighters
do this kind of flying a lot. There was a trike midair
recently which involved formation flying. Also a midair
midair in Florida a couple years ago. Most people have
family and relatives.

I am reminded of the tragic midair in WWII when two fully
loaded troop transports in Europe flew parallel final
approaches to the same runway and then collided just off
the airport boundry.

We dont know yet if the UL planes above had emergency chutes,
or if they tried to deploy.




--------------
Daniel Grunloh (grunloh@uiuc.edu)
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~grunloh

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