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Old 06-21-2007, 07:03 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Regorium View Post
Again...it COULD be due to the fact that they were too high up and miscalculated the distance so they needed some extra distance to lower themselves a bit. I'm no pilot, so I'm not exactly sure of the physics of the situation, but I would love for someone to explain it to me.
I recall seeing news reports that light posts 100s of metres away had been knocked down. It could very well be that they were aiming low, got too low, over corrected back up, and overshot it. Or it could have been something else entirely.

I have very limited piloting experience, but maintaining a window of a few dozen feet above the ground is enough of a challenge; never mind in-experienced pilots trying to avoid other ground obsticals like light posts, etc.
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