103 Cirrus CAPS Parachute Pull over the Caribbean – Interview Ed Regensburg
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🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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103 Cirrus CAPS Parachute Pull over the Caribbean – Interview Ed Regensburg
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On March 5, 2019, two pilots flying a Cirrus SR22 noticed oil pressure dropping rapidly, and soon after, the engine quit. They turned toward land 30 miles away and pulled the airplane’s CAPS parachute. They deployed their raft, which flipped over in eight to ten foot swells. The pilot dived out to right the raft and both men got aboard. But they had no idea who might be coming to rescue them.
Thirty minutes later, a US Coast Guard plane appeared flying a search pattern looking for the men. They tried to use the two flares to signal the plane, but both flares failed to ignite. As the plane flew away in the distance, they didn’t know if they’d been seen.
One of the pilots got sick in the rough seas and began throwing up over the side. About two hours later, the other pilot spotted a ship in the distance. Both men wondered would the ship see them. And if it didn’t, would it accidentally run them over?
Princess Cruises’ Regal Princess was sailing towards St. Thomas, when the US Coast Guard requested that they reverse course to search for the men. The Regal Princess is twenty stories high and was easy for the pilots to spot miles away, but by contrast, they were just a small dot that rose and fell among the waves and white caps.
The pilots Ed Regensburg and Dan Tucker were eventually spotted and brought aboard the cruise ship. In this podcast, Ed Regensburg describe the entire experience from when he first spotted the low oil pressure warning until they were home again in Greensboro, NC.
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| 0:00.0 | Would it take about 600 feet? |
| 0:07.0 | It probably did. |
| 0:09.0 | I didn't look at instruments at that point. |
| 0:11.0 | Once we already had pulled that, once I pulled the handle, you're thrown forward, you're |
| 0:15.0 | thrown backwards, you see the straps. |
| 0:18.0 | I think when that happened, both of us, you know, uttered a couple of words. |
| 0:23.8 | And then the next thing you know, it almost literally seemed like seconds later we hit the water. |
| 0:30.2 | And then the water is actually coming into the cabin. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm getting wet. |
| 0:33.9 | You know, I'm trying to get the raft out. |
| 0:40.6 | That was Ed Regensburg, the pilot who earlier this month pulled the parachute on the |
| 0:44.8 | Cirrus SRSR 22 while flying over the Caribbean. |
| 0:47.9 | And regardless of what kind of plane you fly, you'll learn a lot from his story about |
| 0:51.9 | how to deal with an engine failure over water. |
| 0:54.9 | Hello again and welcome to this Newsmaker's edition of Aviation News Talk, |
| 0:58.3 | a weekly show with news and safety tips for pilots and student pilots. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm Max Truscott. |
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| 1:09.5 | And if you have thought about maybe |
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