Seaplane down off Miami Beach....

Just saw the news clip of the airplane going into the water.

Got an URL for that?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid...ws-miami&hl=en


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:ExLpf.414921$084.377502@attbi_s22...
| Just saw the news clip of the airplane going into the
water.
|
| Got an URL for that?
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination"
|
|

Thanks, Jim.

Here's the write-up that contains the actual video URL:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/20/miami.crash/

(You have to suffer through a Dodge truck commercial to see it, though...)

The wing clearly departed the airframe before the crash. I wonder if these
old birds are simply fatigued?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

My guess is that they had a loose or broken fuel line,
caught fire and the fuel vapor exploded and the fire melted
the spar enough for it to fail.. The airplane seems to have
been very sturdy, since the fuselage is intact after the
impact.

Thanks.


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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:aASpf.660077$xm3.524670@attbi_s21...
| Thanks, Jim.
|
| Here's the write-up that contains the actual video URL:
|
| http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/20/miami.crash/
|
| (You have to suffer through a Dodge truck commercial to
see it, though...)
|
| The wing clearly departed the airframe before the crash.
I wonder if these
| old birds are simply fatigued?
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination"
|
|

This source saids 19 dead, but it also saids 14 plus two crews were on
board, huh? Doesn't that equal 16?

This source,
http://www.channel4.com/news/content...jsp?id=1056407,
saids 19 dead, but it also saids 14 plus two crews were on
board, huh? Doesn't that equal 16?

Robert Chamber introduced us to a Mallard owner at Bridgeport last summer. The owner told us that he would not land his plane in any salt water.

That would be Jack Bart. I know him from my days in Ops at Bridgeport.
I flew in his Mallard a few years back up to Nashua. Man, does that
thing handle like a truck. Built-in delay to roll inputs, but those
1340 Pratts sound awesome. He recently added a Twin Beech (loves round
engines I guess)

My guess is that they had a loose or broken fuel line,
caught fire and the fuel vapor exploded and the fire melted
the spar enough for it to fail.

Boy, I sure hope that's "all" it was. (Who'd ever think we'd be saying that
kind of stuff?)

With everyone describing an "explosion" (which the video tends to
support) -- and Chalk's not having to do much in the way of security
screening, as a small carrier -- this could easily have been some kind of a
nut-job with a shoe bomb and a "cause".

And *then* we'd start seeing all sorts of stupid proposals for "enhanced
security" that we don't want or need.

Sad to say, a mechanical problem is the best-case scenario.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Perfect evidence on why you shouldn't trust media that much!

"Flyingmonk" wrote in message
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This source,
http://www.channel4.com/news/content...jsp?id=1056407,
saids 19 dead, but it also saids 14 plus two crews were on
board, huh? Doesn't that equal 16?

I'm wondering if fitting turbine engines on the old airframes
didn't pull something loose in the wing/mount.

This thing's just a heart breaker. I see them flying all the
time when I'm in Miami. They've been flying off Watson Island
forever. I've always thought it would be fun to fly with them
over to the Bahamas.


Jim Macklin wrote:
My guess is that they had a loose or broken fuel line,
caught fire and the fuel vapor exploded and the fire melted
the spar enough for it to fail.. The airplane seems to have
been very sturdy, since the fuselage is intact after the
impact.

Thanks.