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Spencer Air Car Info?
Depth perception on final above the bright snow, may have misjudged altitude before the flair. Just like trying to land
on a glass smooth lake in an amphib - you basically fly a rate of descent until contact... "Jay Honeck" wrote in message ups.com... : Was there a covering of snow where they crashed? Was it a bright sunny day? : : Yep. : : Why? : -- : Jay Honeck : Iowa City, IA : Pathfinder N56993 : www.AlexisParkInn.com : "Your Aviation Destination : |
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The accident airplane had been based at my field, I'd seen it several times.
Its hangar was right down the row from that of a friend of mine. Thanks for the info, Ron. A fellow pilot who initially went to the accident scene reported that the first impact zone had ruts 8 to 10 inches deep in the (frozen solid, at 10 below zero) field where the landing gear hit. Anything that could punch a hole that deep in frozen Iowa farmland was coming down extremely fast. You can't dig the ground here with a bulldozer right now, it's frozen so hard. The next impact was hundreds of feet down the field. None of this makes any sense, of course. What could cause an aircraft to come down so hard, so fast, but still with that much flying speed? With that kind of energy, they could easily have flown on quite a ways, and the terrain was not an issue. This has been a tough one to take. We all like to believe that fatal accidents only happen to bad pilots, but in this case the pilot was arguably our *best* pilot. Understanding and studying what happened in this bizarre crash will go a long ways toward improving flight safety, IMHO, simply because it proves that it can happen to any of us. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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("Jay Honeck" wrote)
None of this makes any sense, of course. What could cause an aircraft to come down so hard, so fast, but still with that much flying speed? With that kind of energy, they could easily have flown on quite a ways, and the terrain was not an issue. Were there any radio calls heard? CO poisoning? Montblack |
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Were there any radio calls heard?
I don't know. CO poisoning? I would assume they've done an autopsy, but I haven't heard. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message ups.com... Were there any radio calls heard? I don't know. CO poisoning? I would assume they've done an autopsy, but I haven't heard. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" I was going to suggest ice. Perhaps mosture in a critical control area allowed the stabilizer to freeze. But if they had already lost an engine, that would be a double failure of two unrelated systems at the same time, and that would be very, very unlikely. |
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