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David
Your assessment sounds quite likely given the preliminary information you
shared. If accurate, my understanding that parts of the aircraft separated
from the airframe prior to the crash are not likely to be true. I don't
recall where I got that, but I do remember lots of speculation about an in
flight fire. I think this was probably the result of someone seeing photos
of the post flight fire that sent up a pretty big smoke plume.
Yes, it would certainly be instructive and something of a relief to know the
actual cause. You have to wonder how two experienced pilots - one who
instructed regularly in Lancairs could have let airspeed decay to the point
of stall/spin.
Stranger things have happened.
John Barrett
-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Weinsweig [mailto:weinsweigd@tsnci.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:48 AM
To: jbarrett@carbinge.com; lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: Any cause found for IVPT accident?
I do not like unsubsatntiated conjecture particularly when it comes to sad
events that happen to good people. However, I have been told from a
reliable source who seems to have more than just casual knowledge of the
accident that it may very well have been a stall/spin scenario during slow
flight training. Read between the lines on the below link and it sounds
quite plausable. However, I, too, would like to know for sure.
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20120419X54443&key=1
David
>>> jbarrett@carbinge.com 11/6/2012 8:06 AM >>>
Agreed, Fred,
That was a strange one for sure. I surmise that perhaps high speed and wind
shear may have had something to do with it. Total guess on my part but have
lost friends to that scenario in the past. It's fun to rip through mountain
passes when you have high performance aircraft, but things can end horribly
if you hit a wall of air going a different direction.
John
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of
Frederick Moreno
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 8:39 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Any cause found for IVPT accident?
Was any investigation conducted in the accident that killed Harry League and
his check pilot, and any definitive cause identified? We need to get some
lessons from these tragic accidents.
I just lost a friend today in an 80% scale P-51 with a 530 HP Chevy engine.
It appears the gearbox, which was problematic, failed on take off.
There
having been numerous fatalities with automotive engine conversions, we can
derive lessons from that approach. We have got to get accident cause
so we
can take away some lessons.
Fred
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