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Expirimental Crash Plant Cityl- No records on file?
About a month ago a friend and I watched an expirimental aircraft crash at
Plant City in Florida. It was a two seater ultralight, with a registered N number. We even helped pick up the pieces so to speak. The gentleman piloting came in for a landing and I could instantly tell he was having problems. It appeared that he stalled the craft, it fell out about 10 feet from the sky, bounced up hard, then he did a go around. The second time around it was worse. He stalled it at a higher altitude and he crashed hard. Bent the back wheels and frame in two, and the plane was out of commission after that. Haven't seen any news reports or other info on it. He wasn't hurt, but was extremley lucky as a landing like he had could have easily broke his back. Anyone see anything on it by chance? |
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Expirimental Crash Plant Cityl- No records on file?
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:56:42 GMT, "iliad"
wrote: About a month ago a friend and I watched an expirimental aircraft crash at Plant City in Florida. It was a two seater ultralight, with a registered N number. We even helped pick up the pieces so to speak. The gentleman piloting came in for a landing and I could instantly tell he was having problems. It appeared that he stalled the craft, it fell out about 10 feet from the sky, bounced up hard, then he did a go around. The second time around it was worse. He stalled it at a higher altitude and he crashed hard. Bent the back wheels and frame in two, and the plane was out of commission after that. Haven't seen any news reports or other info on it. He wasn't hurt, but was extremley lucky as a landing like he had could have easily broke his back. Anyone see anything on it by chance? Probably never got reported. Just another hard landing. |
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Expirimental Crash Plant Cityl- No records on file?
iliad wrote:
About a month ago a friend and I watched an expirimental aircraft crash at Plant City in Florida. It was a two seater ultralight, with a registered N number. We even helped pick up the pieces so to speak. The gentleman piloting came in for a landing and I could instantly tell he was having problems. It appeared that he stalled the craft, it fell out about 10 feet from the sky, bounced up hard, then he did a go around. The second time around it was worse. He stalled it at a higher altitude and he crashed hard. Bent the back wheels and frame in two, and the plane was out of commission after that. Haven't seen any news reports or other info on it. He wasn't hurt, but was extremley lucky as a landing like he had could have easily broke his back. Anyone see anything on it by chance? No info on that incident, but might have a likely explanation of why you haven't seen anything. It's not unusual for the NTSB to hand off investigations to the local FAA if there are no serious injuries or deaths. If the FAA can call it an 'incident' instead of an accident, they will often do so & not investigate. I can speak from personal knowledge that even with heavy structural damage to an experimental they have looked the other way when they were busy & no one insisted on a report (who would?). You can bet that line level FAA guys hate paper work as much as we do. Charlie |
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Expirimental Crash Plant Cityl- No records on file?
iliad wrote: About a month ago a friend and I watched an expirimental aircraft crash at Plant City in Florida. It was a two seater ultralight, with a registered N number. We even helped pick up the pieces so to speak. ... Here in the US, Ultralights don't have two seats or N-numbers. What you described was hard landing that damaged the aircraft. It may well have not been reported, especially if the plane or pilot were not legal. -- FF |
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