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Thread: A Backcountry skiing trip gone wrong.....

  1. 04-21-2009, 01:53 PM #1
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    A Backcountry skiing trip gone wrong.....

    Was out flying around Sunday, looking around for some new places that might be aircraft accessable...

    Found a nice area about 7 minutes out that had several nice long (3,000ft roughly) lines and a possible landing area.....


    Looks like these bastards beat me to it, but Karma got the best of them















    Seriously, these guys are way fucking lucky, they had intentions of skiing, but messed up the landing big time...Coming from the direction that they did, you land on a fairly steep incline and it kind of rolls over to the edge of this cliff, and as the picture shows, you cant really see the edge until it is too late, the plane is held there by the wing in the snow and one ski....A good stiff wind (like the one blowing last night) would send this thing 4,000ft straight down the cliff to the bottom...I still cant think of how they got out of there without tipping that thing off the mountain.....

    Anyway...be safe out there!!!!!
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    holy shit thats nuts
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    unbelievable. never thought i would see that.
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    That is like out of a cartoon!!!
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    So you think the plane will just stay there until a big stiff wind blows it off or spring melt takes place? Then.....Tumble-Mania 2009!

    Is the pilot legally responsible to have the plane extracted out of there?
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    AK is gnarly! You guys/gals are all fucking bush pilots. That's some next level shit.
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    I'm surprised someone tried to land a ski-plane on terrain like that
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    So then they were stranded with no plane. How DID they get out of there?


    (ski to the road switch??)
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeeLau View Post
    I'm surprised someone tried to land a ski-plane on terrain like that
    Yeah I agree, looking at the picture straight on, you see the slope they were trying come up and that is what you would ski down...the tracks that they left indicated they made a hard 90 degree turn right before the cliff thus causing the plane to be placed like it is...

    The pilot actually crawled back in the plane and radioed for help, this is just outside of town so a helo was dispatched pretty quickly...

    As hard as the wind blows up there, I wouldnt be surprised if it got blown off in the next week or so, especially with that big old wing sticking out...

    Interestingly enough, I wonder why they didnt hit the throttle once they got to the edge and fly off the cliff, I mean you have 4,000 ft to get up and out of there....
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    wow.

    too bad salvage laws of the sea don't apply.

    i would anchor that thing off and get a huey out of palmer to bring it home.
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    Fail.

    Bonus points for effort though.
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    damn snowboarders.

    HA!

    The climb out of that plane would be intense.
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    I bet Hugh Conway has something to say about this.
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    Lotta bush pilots in AK. Not all of them are great. I met someone who crashed 2 supercubs, broke his back both times, and killed a guy the second time. He still flies for lodges. How he gets on the insurance, I have no idea. Nice guy, successful business man, just shouldn't be flying. Another associate of my bro's, whom I met a long time ago, called him one day to say he finally got a supercub. About six weeks later, he called him to tell him he wrecked the supercub! Now, some other close friends of his are such hot shit, they got recruited by Blackwater for some STOL operations in N. Afghanistan.
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    Shitt that sucks.
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    maybe they tried to land the plane switch?
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    If they have a lot of $$ they could get it outta there w/ a heavy lift helo or something. Might not be worth it but if they are close to town might be able to do it pretty quick.


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    That would have been one helluva landing, and twice as sketch exiting the plane!
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    some motor head probably already came and got the engine for their airboat.
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    Wow... Fail.

    I thought that's what you buy a heli for....
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  25. 04-21-2009, 07:37 PM #25
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    Well, if they walked away...

    Great pic - thanks.
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