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Crashed in the Rockies episode

posted 9 years ago by boutetr
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Watched this for the first time today but I missed the first 10 minutes. I'm assuming the crash was due to some type of pilot error? The pilot did express some overwhelming feelings of responsibility at some point. He did a great job getting to a location were his cell phone signal could be picked up but the summary for the episode seems pretty mis-leading:

"He decides to hike 45 miles down the treacherous mountainside in search of help. As darkness falls he picks up a cell signal and manages to summon a rescue helicopter."

I'm assuming they meant to say the distance to the nearest town or city was 45 miles. The conditions he was hiking through and the amount of time he had makes it unlikely that he hiked more then 5 miles.

[–] BulletHeadedSaxonMothersSon 8 years ago

The guy said it was only 20 or so miles to the nearest town. I haven't seen the episode, or any episode of this show in a long time, but I believe he only ended up hiking a fraction of that distance before he was able to get help. Don't know why the synopsis says 45 miles. Maybe to get people's attention because it sounds more dramatic.

[–] wanton87 (934) 5 years ago

Watched this one last night. I was amazed at the mistakes, and or lack of preparation that they put into the flight. They’re in a high mountain region in a single engine aircraft, and took no preparations or emergency kit with them. I remember when I took flying lessons, the place that rented the planes, had a policy prohibiting these types of flights. They didn’t even wear proper, hydrophobic clothing, and were under dressed, should something happen.

A fire kit, and a signal kit; either hand flares, ground flares, or even a bright flashlight, would have upped their survival odds considerably, and made their discovery that much quicker.

No explanation on why the plane suddenly lost power, and started dropping in elevation? I’d imagine that the wings iced up, but I guess we’ll never know.