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From: kas@hp-pcd.UUCP (kas)
Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive
Subject: Re: Re: AP news stories about the Carava
Message-ID: <41800046@hpcvlo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 20:15:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 20:15:00 1985
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR
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Nf-From: hpcvlo!kas    Oct 22 16:15:00 1985



>What I'd like to know is why, with a plane full of skydivers, nobody
>escaped when they realized there was engine trouble?

	Most likely because the plane wasn't high enough.  Apparently the
plane crashed shortly after takeoff, and therefore had insufficient altitude
for the jumpers to exit safely.  They would have had to have several hundred
feet at least, to even consider getting out.  If they were only at a couple 
hundred feet or so, they didn't have a prayer anyway.

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            / \
       |---/---\---|            Ken Scofield    C-9355
       |   Gone    |            Hewlett-Packard PCD
       |  Jumpin'  |            Corvallis, OR
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