Well, yes. Go to the Soar Minden or Hanggliding.Org and look it up. Guess the Hawker was letting down for Reno over Carson City NV nearly had a head on with an ASW 27? at about 16K AGL. Hawker is owned by NetJet which a relation flies for. When you see the pics, it is a mild miracle that all involved walked away pretty unscathed. Sailplane pilot is a Japanese gentleman, who managed a clean parachute ride actually walked out of the wilderness to find some authorities looking for him. The Captain of the Hawker was injured by debris that hit her face, but all others on the jet were unhurt.
The pics seem to show that the sailplane hit the radome of the Hawker with a wing, as the spar is still in the jet's forward fuse. It actually partially caved in the instrument panel and that is what injured the Capt. The right wing of the jet was also abused at the root and it jammed the gears and the jet made a belly landing in Carson City. I would guess that the sailplanes right wing did the dirty work. The 27 pilot said he never saw the jet till impact. I am guessing that the sailplane and the jet were nearly feet away from a direct head on collision, and that would have killed a bunch of folks. Neat reading and lots of pics around. Marc RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
