I climbed up to the water reservoir this morning to watch the LIMA guys rehearsing for their performance. The view from above was totally breathtaking, though the wind was kinda strong, up to 12 knots.


Many jets performed their stunts today, and one of them is the Sukhoi jet which flew vertically upwards for few hundred feets before the pilot sengaja let his jet stalled, and the jet slowly fell down due to gravity pull. In order to make a recovery from stalling, the pilot moved the control column forward, gave full throttle, used rudder (not ailerons) to counter the opposite spin and finally pulled out from dive by moving the control column rearward gently. Normal aircrafts would probably need few seconds (maybe few minutes or maybe never!) to recover from stalling, but this particular jet was able to do it in less than 2 seconds. Damn cun man.


During the first part of the rehearsal, i saw many parachuters, at least more than 30 of them, were practising their parachuting skills around the lgk airspace. A few of them drifted far away from the others and were dropping towards the sea! Possibly due to the strong winds, i guess. My friend told me that one of them fell into the sea. I didn't pay much attention to him though, cuz I thought the parachuter should not have much problem to survive. After about 20 minutes, I noticed that a helicopter was hovering on top of the sea for quite a long time, for around 30 minutes. I thought they were rehearsing for some search and rescue actions.


BUT I WAS WRONG.........


If you have watched tonight's news, you would have noticed the latest news regarding the parachuters from LIMA. 3 people dead, of age 20, 24, and 25 years old. One of them died on the spot (drowned) because she (yes, you read it right, a female parachuter) was blown to the sea near Pantai Cenang. And the other two, although rescued, however, they died in the hospital. More details will be provided by local newspapers tomorrow. My condolences to the families of the victims involved. But anyway, LIMA organizers will still continue with the parachuting rehearsal despite the meteorological department warned that tomorrow's wind will be stronger, between 30-40 km/h. Will they take precautionary steps to avoid the incident again? I can only hope that nothing bad will happen tomorrow.