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Old September 4th 06, 08:54 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Peter Duniho
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Default Why not to land downwind

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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I think it stopped when out of fuel, which might explain why
the pilot landed downwind and at an airport closed to jet
traffic.


That would be a good guess, except that the accident report doesn't say
anything about the fuel being low or empty. Checking the fuel state is SOP
for an accident report (even if no engine failure occurred), so the lack of
any comment regarding that strongly suggests that fuel wasn't a factor at
all in the incident.