# Jogger killed by an airplane.

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**Created:** [March 19, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978 "2010-03-19T16:42:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/32 "2010-03-21T00:27:18Z")

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> [@WTB: O2 Bungs](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-o2-bungs/30219/6):
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> You’re trying to tell me that a Cessna 152 does not glide well? Not even sure if that’s the aircraft in question, but most small, single engine prop planes only lose 1 foot of altitude for each 9-11 feet they glide forward. No way that I’d call that ‘falling like a brick’.
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> Also, if he’s looking at instruments at that point, he’s a piss-poor pilot.

I admit that was a bit of a generalization yes. 1 foot per ~10 of forward travel isn’t bad, but you have to factor in what they do when yawing and pitching. Most planes lose alot of altitude when making heading corrections, which is why it’s beat into your head to do as much correction while altitude is on your side(in such an emergency event like this). They’re definitely not gliders.

And the article stated he claimed oil across the windscreen. In a streamlined aircraft like the Lancair that oil likely covered down the complete side of the airframe and obscured much view. I’d suspect one of his only true means of determining aircraft attitude would have been the artificial horizon(hence gauges). Toss in nervousness/panic from the situation and you’ve got one hell of a mess.

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