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Thanks Jeff, I bow to your experience in this and appreciate the correction. My logic was that the tail boom is fragile and doesn’t take that much to break off. Haven’t seen all that many pictures of stall spins with Lancairs but expected the aircraft to be broken up a lot more. I guess it’s a testament to the amazing strength of these carbon fiber structures. John From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of vtailjeff@aol.com
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Subject: [LML] Re: 3 killed in small plane crash in Southern California That's what a spin impact looks like. If you could see the tail that is broken off you could get an idea of direction of the spin. Interesting crash site photos that don’t seem to correlate with reports of A/C in spin, stall or aerobatic attitudes. Looks like he pancaked in with a reasonable flat trajectory and photos don’t show evidence of significant pieces missing. Could he have gotten in a spin or stall and just been pulling out when he impacted ground? I know we shouldn’t speculate, but photos and eyewitness reports seem to have a disconnect. John Barrett IV-PT That crashed was N5M.
Guy Foreman
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