< img src=" https://savageventures.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/plane-almost-crashes.jpg?w=1200 "alt=""> A small aircraft nearly crashed straight into the ground, and a hiker captured the entire thing on movie. Jason Dunn was raising to Devil’s Thumb in Grand County, Colorado when he saw something that he’ll likely never unsee– a near-miss that was almost devastating.
“While sitting in the saddle on the ridge at the top (the Continental Divide), an aircraft showed up the valley from the opposite (Boulder) side,” Dunn wrote in his Facebook post dated July 4. “It was clear the airplane was struggling trying to clear the saddle. It was coming straight at us, and as a previous licensed pilot, I was fretted it would go into an aerodynamic stall. Then it either did, or the pilot made a last ditch effort to turn the airplane around in a dead end valley before crashing into the mountain (or us).”
Dunn’s kid was standing at a various point on the ridge, and he was the one who actually caught the footage.
“There’s a plane!” Dunn’s kid states in the video. “Oh my God! It’s like right there!”
After speeding toward the ground, the aircraft maneuvers parallel and does not crash. But it was so, so close. Too close.
“As you can see, [the pilot] made it by less than a number of feet,” Dunn concluded.
View it here:
We can’t even imagine what it must have been like inside the cockpit of this airplane.
A small plane nearly crashed directly into the ground, and a hiker caught the whole thing on film. This near-miss was practically catastrophic.