Quick Landing in Utah

Wonder where Hooper, UT is...

Near Ogden, home of Mary Simpson Stokes of our Ward, and Bishop Tim Miller.

You don't pronounce it HOOOPer either, it is Hupper.

Showed the video to Blake.  He was laughing his head off.  We had to watch 4 times in a row.  Hopefully none of the injuries were serious. 

I think the article said most were treated and released, good thing. You can tell it was videoed in Utah - all of the swearing as he was hitting the ground consisted of "geez" and "oh my gosh"

Yes, no one was seriously hurt (thankfully)-- and all of the candy got delivered.

haha wow....looks like he lost control when he went to throw the candy out

Yes, there were alot of horehound drops on one side of the plane, which caused an inbalance when released, and the rough landing.

It is horehound.

Change has been noted.

hahha, that was funny.  Everyone run to the craft, everyone run away from the craft.  I noticed the same thing Aimee.  Even though it felt like a dire situation, the language never became rated R.

I talked to my friend yesterday that is from Hooper and she was there that day.  She said the crash was caused from the air from several jump houses that blows up into the sky and causes different currents.  What do you think, Dave?

I say nonsense.  I've never yet seen a jumphouse that vents it's air straight up or in fact anywhere at all.  If they vented that much air they would never inflate.  Not to mention it would take a darn good current to give the power parachute any problems.  Looks and sounds to me like the pilot just cut power and about the same time had a downdraft that he couldn't recover from.  You can hear him throttle up hard as it decends rapids, but too late.  Lucky somebody didn't get dismembered in that big blade.

Heck, just watched the video about 10 more times.  I don't even see any jump toys.  I hear the throttle is on, then cut back just as the nose of the cart tips up looking like they hit a head wind.  I think the rig starts to stall and decend rapidly and you hear the pilot hammer the throttle.  Probably also distracted by all the candy being dropped. 

looks like he throws candy and it goes thru the blade, cutting the power.

Yes Geoff, it was crippled by a few jolly ranchers.

I think it was whorehound drops. They weigh more, and nobody likes them anyhow.

Horehound.  Yeah probably just something she heard someone speculating.

Sean

Be very careful when you blow up the jump house in your living room from now on. It might cause planes to fall down on your house.

I agree with Sean, I was thinking the same thing when I watched the video.  I need to show it to Dave.  The guy just wasn't paying attention when he was throwing candy.  Gave it throttle too late, and down he went.