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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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