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Old July 14th 06, 09:44 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
David Dyer-Bennet
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Default Plane Loses Both Wings In Mid-Air............Why ?

Orval Fairbairn writes:

In article ,
Ron Natalie wrote:

Lufthansi wrote:
This happened on some Airshow in Asia. The Airplane last both wings in
midair and consequently crashed. Maybe it did some aerobatic loops
prior to wing-failure ? Check it out :
http://www.jumpingpixels.com/aircraft2.html

Everybody wants to be Bob Hoover.

I don't think it is this video, but a different one several years ago
when a pilot doing loops in a Partenavia during an airshow folded the
wings back. It was his wife who was shooting the video if I recall.


The video was that of a Partenavia coming apart. They are NOT aerobatic
category airplanes. It looked as if the pilot had started a snap
maneuver, in which both outer wing panels failed simultaneously.


Both wings seemed to fail at essentially the same instant, and in the
same place (just outboard of the engines).

Eek; that model or something very like it is one of only two small
planes I've been in, and the only one I've gotten to manipulate the
controls of. But the pilot who took me up wasn't trying to do
aerobatics with it!
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