"Drew Hamilton" wrote in message
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Jeff Franks wrote:
Without the whole story, we don't know for sure, but does anyone else
find
it interesting that the "eye witnesses" heard the plane sputtering and it
appeared "shaky" on final....all caused by a blown alternator?

Eye witnesses to aviation incidents always say things like that. I bet
that if
you flew a perfectly good plane over a bunch of people, and then sent out
a
reporter to interview people about the "accident" that the plane that they
just
saw had, they'd all say that it was shaky, wobbly, and had a sputtering
engine.
They just want to have something interesting to say to get in the paper,
that's all.

My landing yesterday was shaky and wobbly until I got into ground effect
(then it was a greaser :-) ). Unusually hot afternoons here in the PNW.

-- David Brooks