Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:06:22 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@HIWAAY.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: seat belts..take a look at this.. (was: Re: who cares?)
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Hey, Man, Glad to know you survived all that!!
John Rodgers
Ari Ollikainen wrote:
> >Chris, I'm impressed.....and amazed that you survived that one.
> >
> >I had a malfunction of a ski on Cessna 180 ski plane in Alaska one time.
> >The thing put me through an outside loop and between some treetops before
> >I got control of the situation. Damn near lost it. If I had not had my
> >seatbelt on I would have been thrown all over the cockpit, so guess where
> >today I would be........or not be?
> >
> >Airplane or car, seatbelts are common sense.
> >
>
> True...a harness saved my face and upper body parts from severe
> damage when the nose of the tandem trainer I was in the front
> seat of stopped suddenly after passing through the after run
> at the end of the runway as a result of total brake failure.
> As the check pilot/instructor in the back seat was screaming
> "EJECT! EJECT" I was trying to remind him that this particular
> trainer model NEVER had ZERO ALTITUDE ejection seats. He sounded
> pretty silly trying to defend that particular instruction during
> the subsequent inquiry. Last I heard, he was keeping tabs on snow
> removal equipment in Thule Greenland...
>
> I was carted away from the crash site with broken knees and one
> fractured lower leg. I had plenty of time to contemplate the
> future of my flying career while recuperating ;^)
>
> Silly me...once I recovered enough to drive, I rolled my VW beetle
> out by Van Horn (Tx) at about 70mph dodging a jackrabbit that was
> bigger than a cocker spaniel. This time, wearing three point seat
> belts, I was able to walk away from the rollover with a few
> bruises.
>
> Same decade (but during later 60s), I rear ended a car in fog at
> about 20 mph wearing a seat belt, and walked away...only later
> after getting my car fixed to slide on black ice on a decreasing
> radius turn at about 60mph into a powerpole. Of course I was
> wearing three point belts in the Volvo and found out that Volvos
> were solidly made...the power pole ended up between the right
> front wheel and the engine, almost all the way to the firewall.
> The passenger compartment wasn't deformed. And the windshield
> wasn't damaged!
>
> I ALWAYS BUCKLE UP!
>
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> OLTECO Ari Ollikainen
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