http://www.break.com/index/in-air-near-miss-causes-crash.html
Anyone able to tell me what kind of aircraft that is?
The one that crumped in, or the one that crossed his nose?
I wasn't able to get a good freeze frame on the one that crossed the nose (too many compression artifacts mixed with the interlacing of that video to even tell. Looked even low-wing!), but the crashed plane looks like a Zenith Air CH-701. (I'm not sure if the 701 has those sort of Aeronca-style wing struts with the cabane wires...)
I could not figure out why it looked at first like a stall-spin situation, but without what I would expect to be a fair amount of nose-down pitch and the associated wind noise (even sans engine). Then I realized it sounds like the pilot says "I have deployed my parachute" (if he were a pilot *wearing* a parachute, I would expect you wouldn't have heard him say that, since he'd have elected to stop being a pilot and start being a skydiver well before announcing his intentions on the CTAF) which seems to indicate to me he has one of those 'airframe mounted ballistic recovery systems' that uses a mortar -deployed round to lower you to the ground. His arrival in the field also confirms a nice straight down arrival lacking airspeed, like under a BRS parachute.
Hell, he even walked away. Nice one.
EDIT: on second thought, its probably not a 701 or its larger sister the 801. They have a very exaggerated "wing leading edge to upper windscreen" difference due to the 701/801 series STOL wing, and the plane in this video does not have that same feature.
Well according to the description, the crossing plane was towing a banner, although Break is notorious for erroneous descriptions; plus the cable would probably shred once it contacted the propeller, wouldn't it?
It's hard to tell from the video, but it didn't look like he was in any dangerous attitude that would prevent a safe off-field power off landing.
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I thought was was going to need a parachute today when the student I was giving a stage check to put us into a spin twice during power on stalls and later on exercised poor power off stall recovery technique. I earned my paycheck today...
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Discovered some info about this:
It was a German Rans R6 collided with a French glider tug's tow rope over France.
QuoteThe German pilot in his Rans S6 Ultralight plane was flying in formation with friends across France. A French towplane crossed his flight path a few moments after he released a glider. Its 60meter long glider tow line gets caught into the propeller of the UL plane and forced the pilot to pull his safety parachute. - In Germany it's required for every UL plane to have an emergency parachute. - Nobody was injured.
http://blog.flightstory.net/category/videos/page/2/
In the last few frames you can see the bright blue BRS chute on the lower left corner.
Ouch, that ones going on the favorites list.