Nødlanding med fallskjerm - God reklame for Cirrus - Short of fuel

Video shows plane using parachute to ditch into ocean near Maui

Sjekk video her: http://tinyurl.com/oxmftcw

 

By Henry Lee

Updated 7:22 pm, Monday, January 26, 2015

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

 

U.S Coast Guard video showing a Cirrus SR-22 4 passenger plane successfully deploying a parachute for emergency landing 235 miles short of Maui, Hawaii, January, 25th, 2015. The pilot was the only passenger and survived the ocean landing.

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U.S Coast Guard video showing a Cirrus SR-22 4 passenger plane successfully deploying a parachute for emergency landing 235 miles short of Maui, Hawaii, January, 25th, 2015. The pilot was the only passenger and survived the ocean landing.

 

The pilot of a small plane that took off from a Tracy airfield successfully used a parachute to ditch the plane into the ocean off the coast of Hawaii, a dramatic and rare move that was captured on video by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The incident began about 12:30 p.m. Sunday as pilot Lue Morton ferried the Cirrus SR-22 toward Hawaii and ultimately Australia, where a new owner was waiting.

But Morton contacted the Hawaii National Guard, reporting that he had only three hours of fuel left and planned to deploy the plane’s bright orange-striped parachute short of the islands, officials said.