Two different accidents here, the Uvalde ASW-20 driver
didn't loose consciouness and remembered things like
85 knots. Another crash that I know about the pilot
didn't remember anything after breakfast.
JJ

At 18:00 26 March 2005, Hl Falbaum wrote:
There is an alternate, more plausible explanation for
the lack of memory.
Fairly minor concussions can produce a phenomenon called
retrograde amnesia.
This is seen in motor vehicle accidents and falls from
heights. So the brain
would be functioning fairly normally, and not on 'autopilot'
untill the
accident. Then after consciouness is regained, the
person reccalls nothing
for a variable period of time prior to the accident.
BTW how do we know then
that the spped was 85 kt?

--
Hartley Falbaum, M.D., FAAOS
ASW27B 'KF' USA
wrote in message
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Uvalde, Texas, August 4, 1086 (15 meter National Championships)

ASW-20 crossed the finish line at 50 feet and 85 knots,
then started a
climbing turn to position himself on down-wind. Pilot
sees another ship
in the pattern and turns away to avoid a

Let's discuss dehydration a bit. I know a pilot that
crashed, severly
dehydrated, at 4PM and he doesn't remember anything
after breakfast.
What does that mean? It means he functioned all day
long, right up to
the accident. He took off, towed, thermaled and flew
some 60 miles
cross country to make his rendezvous with destiny.
What does all this
have to do with anything? Just this; A dehydrated
mind is still
functioning and can perform simple, well rehearsed,
tasks. It's the
unexpected that gets you, like a conflict in the pattern.


JJ Sinclair
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