This is very sad news.  Don’t know the owner, but he is not on our Velocity e-mail list. Perhaps had he been he could have learned from others experience.

 

From the witness account:

"We saw it start to get lower and lower as it flew over, like they were trying to find a place to land it," said Tyler Monroe, assistant manager of the pro shop. "It hit the power lines.";

 

. . .  the plane was evidently in controlled flight. It apparently struck and flipped over. Makes me wonder if the door came off and damaged the prop.

 

Al

 

From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bill Bradburry
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:05 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Another door came open on a Velocity.

 

This seems similar to what happened to Al, except that his door departed the plane and he landed safely.

 

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6441657-woman-dies-4-others-seriously-injured-in-plane-crash-near-san-diego

 

Bill B