PRECARIOUS: Plane stopped on edge of 1,500-foot dropoff.


	PRECARIOUS: Plane stopped on edge of 1,500-foot dropoff.

lakotahope

10-19-2009 11:20 AM

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hanging from cliff

lakotahope says:

Dozens of these type "incidents" in Alaska all year every year......

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<IMG width="240" height="160" alt="A Taylorcraft single-engine plane piloted by Jake Soplanda of Anchor Point hangs over the edge of a cliff near the summit of an unnamed peak east of Talkeetna. Soplanda and a passenger escaped injury after a landing attempt went awry." src="http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/04/28/22/736-4391058.12900.original.highlight.prod_affiliate.7.jpg" />
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<P class="links_horizontal">      <A href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/aviation/v-gallery/story/776605.html?/629/gallery/776625.html" linkindex="153">more</A></P><P class="photo_credit">Photo courtesy Alaska Air National Guard</p> <P class="summary">A Taylorcraft single-engine plane piloted by Jake Soplanda of Anchor Point hangs over the edge of a cliff near the summit of an unnamed peak east of Talkeetna. Soplanda and a passenger escaped injury after a landing attempt went awry.</P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/aviation/story/776605.html"><P class="first story_readable">After a cliffhanger of a plane landing in the Talkeetna Mountains earlier this month, 21-year-old Matthew "Jake" Soplanda of Anchor Point and a skiing buddy managed to climb away from Soplanda's dated, single-engine Taylorcraft as it hung perched over a 1,500-foot drop.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/aviation/story/776605.html"><P class="story_readable">   "It was in a fairly precarious place," said Jim Acher, the Big Lake owner of Northern Pioneer Helicopters. Acher is the pilot Jake eventually contracted to retrieve the Taylorcraft. Acher sling-loaded the plane off the peak beneath a Bell UH-1 helicopter, an aircraft best known simply as a "Huey."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/aviation/story/776605.html"><P class="story_readable">   "He did the real hard work,'' said Acher, who noted the drop below the Taylorcraft if the plane came loose or the rigger fell.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/54933B02-EBB9-40A2-862B-82A8FC79A58C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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