Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp 1.2 08/01/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!hp-pcd!kas 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 Article-I.D.: hpcvlo.41800046 Posted: Tue Oct 22 20:15:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:37:12 EDT References: <13329@Glacier.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:Glacier:-1332900:hpcvlo:41800046:000:731 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. * / \ |---/---\---| Ken Scofield C-9355 | Gone | Hewlett-Packard PCD | Jumpin' | Corvallis, OR |-----------| {ucbvax!hplabs, harpo, ogcvax}!hp-pcd!kas