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SUMMARY OF LANCAIR ACCIDENTS IN NTSB DATABASE
Jeff,
Thanks for the Lancair accident
update.
Note that of these 126 Lancair accidents, 54
included fatalities, and 24 of the accidents definitely resulted from a
stall/spin -- the last pilot-controllable event before the pilot pulled
his wing past its stall AOA and became a doomed
passenger.
Note that a wing of a trimmed
a/c will not stall unless the pilot pulls the stick back too far, causing his
aircraft to pitch up to a stall AOA...
which he unintentionally does
because he cannot SEE the realtive wind and his wing's stall
AOA.
A sad, unnecessary waste
of friends' and families lives, beautiful aircraft, and years of creative work,
all for the lack of an inexpensive AOA indicator and a little training to
develop habitual use of it.
Terrence O'Neill
L235/320 N211AL
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