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Bryan Winberry wrote:
> Well, weight and balance,
And the plane flew from Florida to Myrtle Beach that way.  W&B didn't 
cause the accident.
>  removal of 2 out of 4 props,
I was at the airport the other day.  I seem to remember a lot of planes 
with only 2 props.  Are they all in danger of taking a dirt bath?
>  just the general
> attitude towards compliance. 
...has absolutely no effect on the physics of keeping an airplane airborne.
> Fudging an hour or two to get to OSH is one
> thing. If he'd had a lot of high performance time, some shortcuts might not
> raise as many questions, but 200 hours in a Cherokee?  
What would more high performance time have done to improve the pilot's 
situation?  All we have is speculation and innuendo.  The pilot could 
have just as likely died of a heart attack.  A bird could have come 
through the window, through his left eye, and out the back of his head.  
He could have had a bad reaction to the ibuprofen.  There could have 
been water in his fuel.  A water hose could have burst due to a 
manufacturing defect.  He could have had a bad itch on the bottom of his 
foot, and nosed the plane into the ground while reaching to scratch it.
> I thought the battery
> was determined to be the cause of the accident.  I know it's not spelled out
> here, perhaps I heard/read about it somewhere else. Didn't John Denver meet
> a similar fate?  Something about using vise grips on a fuel selector valve?
>   
Vice-grips make a very effective valve handle.  That is why you see it 
employed so often.  What I've read suggests that John's fate was sealed 
by flying low on a nearly empty tank with a tank selection valve that 
was located in a hard to reach place.  Whether the handle was a pair of 
vice-grips or gold plated unobtanium was superfluous.
> This guy overloaded himself, and sometimes "not following procedure" is the
> cause of an accident.
>   
Possibly.  But you couldn't peg non-compliance as the fault using this 
report.  All you can do is speculate and say, "He is a baaaad man.  
Shame.  Shame on the non-compliant."
> BTW, Good decision Chris M. on figuring your engine problem out after the
> move to NC. 
>
>   


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