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Posted on 10/21/25 at 3:30 pm to TT9
Got to stop. That’s the problem, they stop to fast.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 4:14 pm to Napoleon
quote:
What you think? Just didn't want to pull the chute?
No idea. Maybe the pilot had a medical problem.
Until last November I was flying an SR22T. I use to bring coffee and something for breakfast, take off and head to Houston, then have my breakfast. It occurred to me one time that if I choked on something there would be no way for me to fix that. If it happened at home, with no one around, you could fall on a table with your chest and maybe dislodge it, but up there you couldn’t get out of a sitting position. So I started only bringing food that was not a choking hazard.
I will say this about the chute. If that thing goes into a stall you better pull that booger fast because about a second later you’d probably have a hard time getting to it, and very soon you’d be going faster than it’s rated for.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 10/21/25 at 4:56 pm to MWP
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I think they also run the prison out on 15 going toward Alto from Monroe. Big duck hunters. Own some nice waterfowl properties. Hope the pilot isn’t one of the guys I am thinking of in that family. Really cool dude and really religious.
Same family. The hunter I believe is one of the sons (Clay?). They operate like 18 facilities across a few states. The have a reputation, and not all good. Business rep, at least.
Regardless, sad deal.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 9:31 am to Goldensammy
It wasn't a family member; the pilot was an higher up employee who flew himself between Texas and Ruston.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 9:38 am to BayouNation
quote:
Key Principal: William K McConnell
I know this guy's son Clay
This post was edited on 10/22/25 at 9:40 am
Posted on 10/22/25 at 9:40 am to TDsngumbo
quote:That’s actually a concise way of describing the actual physics of a plane crash.
These plane crashes have got to stop!
Motion, motion, motion then…..STOP!
Posted on 10/22/25 at 9:51 am to MWP
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Big duck hunters. Own some nice waterfowl properties.
Their place over near Monroe is called
Pin Oak
Clay is a big hunter and has videos with the Duck Dynasty guys, he's top notch dude.
Family is big in the Louisiana prison business, they have done well with it too.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 9:54 am to Napoleon
Was it clear in Ruston yesterday? Maybe he got into clouds and had spatial disorientation?
This post was edited on 10/22/25 at 9:58 am
Posted on 10/22/25 at 9:58 am to Goldensammy
Yep Clay is who I was referring too. Not to take away from this tragedy but when I saw the owner of the plane I wondered if it was him. I don’t know him except for one time we traded PM’s on the old Refuge hunting site about this flooded timber property they just bought. I told him I used to hunt there a long time ago. Other than that I know he runs with the DC crew. I think him and Martin are tight. He is on a lot of their YouTube clips.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 10:38 am to SaltyMcKracker
Someone mentioned in the Lafayette post that the pilot in the Ruston crash might have had a medical episode. Heart attack is what they are speculating
Posted on 10/22/25 at 10:46 am to Penrod
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I will say this about the chute. If that thing goes into a stall you better pull that booger fast because about a second later you’d probably have a hard time getting to it, and very soon you’d be going faster than it’s rated for.
Is the mechanism to activate it easily in reach of the pilot? And how physically difficult is it to activate if a medical condition/emergency occurred?
Posted on 10/22/25 at 10:48 am to SWLA92
Winds were out of the north. He was lined up fine to land then things went wrong. Sometime between 9:35 am and 9:55 am clouds went from broken at 2100 ft to bkn at 300 ft. Wouldn’t be surprised if weather rolled in on a pilot not prepared for it. Conditions deteriorated from VFR all the way to LIFR as he got close to Ruston.
It’s been perfectly clear in Ruston since last Saturday outside of a 5 hour window when the crash occurred. With LIFR/IFR conditions during a 2 hour window that started when the crash occurred.
It’s been perfectly clear in Ruston since last Saturday outside of a 5 hour window when the crash occurred. With LIFR/IFR conditions during a 2 hour window that started when the crash occurred.
This post was edited on 10/22/25 at 11:02 am
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:03 am to Fishwater
quote:
LaSalle Management Company
Runs private jails and prisons, including for ICE.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:07 am to Goldensammy
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The have a reputation, and not all good. Business rep, at least.
Yeah for all the people saying he's a good guy, maybe so but the business they're in is shady AF.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:50 am to dallastigers
quote:
Is the mechanism to activate it easily in reach of the pilot? And how physically difficult is it to activate if a medical condition/emergency occurred?
Yes. And Cirrus pilots are trained to touch it every time they are going through the start up procedure. I did. But I still wondered how easy it would be to get to that when the plane was being buffeted while in a stall.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 1:12 pm to BayouNation
Pilot ID'ed:
The pilot of the small private plane that crashed in Jackson Parish Tuesday morning has been identified as 64-year-old Rodney Cooper of Huntsville, Texas.
Cooper, who was the only person on board and did not survive, was the executive director of LaSalle Correction, a Ruston-based firm that provides prison management support.
The pilot of the small private plane that crashed in Jackson Parish Tuesday morning has been identified as 64-year-old Rodney Cooper of Huntsville, Texas.
Cooper, who was the only person on board and did not survive, was the executive director of LaSalle Correction, a Ruston-based firm that provides prison management support.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 1:15 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:
but the business they're in is shady AF.
link: LINK
A $7 million settlement reached in April 2023 marked the latest chapter in a sordid tale of mismanagement at Bi-State Jail (BSJ) in Texarkana, Texas, by former private operator LaSalle Corrections. But the family-owned prison profiteer, based in Ruston, Louisiana—which ended its contract to run BSJ in February 2021—has left a trail of death in other lockups, too.
Often using legal maneuvers and a confusing array of similarly named companies to avoid legal liability, the company generally insists on secrecy when it settles a claim brought by survivors of a deceased prisoner or detainee. However, the family of one victim at BSJ, Holly Barlow-Austin, insisted on reporting the $7 million they accepted to settle the lawsuit filed over her torturous death due to denied medical care, the largest jail death payout in Texas history.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 1:30 pm to The Torch
quote:
link: LINK
A $7 million settlement reached in April 2023 marked the latest chapter in a sordid tale of mismanagement at Bi-State Jail (BSJ) in Texarkana, Texas, by former private operator LaSalle Corrections. But the family-owned prison profiteer, based in Ruston, Louisiana—which ended its contract to run BSJ in February 2021—has left a trail of death in other lockups, too.
Often using legal maneuvers and a confusing array of similarly named companies to avoid legal liability, the company generally insists on secrecy when it settles a claim brought by survivors of a deceased prisoner or detainee. However, the family of one victim at BSJ, Holly Barlow-Austin, insisted on reporting the $7 million they accepted to settle the lawsuit filed over her torturous death due to denied medical care, the largest jail death payout in Texas history.
Well, LaSalle just had a $42 million verdict reached against them yesterday. Woof.
Story: LINK
Posted on 10/31/25 at 7:04 pm to The Boat
Bronco lirio channel just covered this. YouTube LINK
NTSB preliminary findings are looking like VFR into IFR resulting in CFIT due to spatial disorientation
NTSB preliminary findings are looking like VFR into IFR resulting in CFIT due to spatial disorientation
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