Pilatus PC-21 Prototype down !
Hello all
I am sorry to have to report that today shortly before 17.00 h (local) one of the Pilatus PC-21 Prototypes crashed during a test-flight near its home-base Buochs, Switzerland.
The pilot tragically was killed by the impact and disintegration of the airframe, another person on the ground was struck by debris and sustained serious injuries.
My thoughts and prayers are with the pilot’s family and friends, as well as the injured person.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew –
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Martin / Swiss Mustangs
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January 13, 2005 at 5:39 pm