It was a Cirrus 20, a plane that really looks like a helicopter:

originalpckelly

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:17 PM
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It was a Cirrus 20, a plane that really looks like a helicopter:

Edited on Wed Oct-11-06 03:38 PM by originalpckelly

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goclark

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:18 PM
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1. How many people can it hold?

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mikeytherat

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:19 PM
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5. Four

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originalpckelly

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:19 PM
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2. Here is the cockpit:

Here is further information on the airplane:
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=167

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No DUplicitous DUpe

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:19 PM
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3. here it is from the aircraft makers site...Cirrus 20 Photo

Edited on Wed Oct-11-06 03:21 PM by No DUplicitous DUpe

edited to add a link... http://www.cirrusdesign.com/aircraft/gallery/

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yodermon

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:19 PM
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4. uhm, try this

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nashville_brook

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:20 PM
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6. what a pretty plane

it's adorable

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Rick Myers

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:21 PM
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7. Four-seater, easy to mistake for a chopper as it fell...

That's a pricy airplane!!! Sounds like a MAJOR pilot error or perhaps a heart attack, carbon monoxide, etc...

???

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:23 PM
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9. I'd be pouring over his Medical, before making any judgments..

MSNBC just mentioned a heart attack too...

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Up2Late

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:28 PM
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11. Did you see the Cockpit picture above? Looks like a fly-by-wire set-up...

...so it could have been a computer failure too.

I don't know really, but I don't think I'd want to fly such a small plane with only a Joy-stick, those control systems scare me.

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:22 PM
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8. They have a parachute, a big parachute, in case they stall.

really, though this obviously happened too fast for that to be of use.

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Wed Oct-11-06 03:24 PM
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10. um, btw, they've punked your link. right now it just has a notice

about how to legally link to their site.

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