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Sorry to hear that Jeff.  Glad you're ok.

Patrick


Jeff Whaley wrote:
>
> Sorry to post bad news guys but need to share this with you form a 
> safety perspective.
>
> Anyway what happened ... engine failure, prop stopped went into a corn 
> field and flipped over.
> I have 2 fuel pumps; decided to turn 1 off, when I did the engine quit 
> - pump back on okay - repeated same result.
> 5 miles from home base I headed back, radioed inbound, 1 minute later 
> I thought I smelled fuel and another 1 minute later the engine quit. 
> Trimmed the airplane, mayday and glided straight ahead. Lots of corn 
> and a few soya bean fields around but didn't want to land in them, saw 
> a gravel road and turned to line up on it, pulled on full flaps for 
> minimum landing speed, when I turned final there was a huge elm tree 
> on the right edge at my expected touch down point, so at 100' I turned 
> left into the field which was corn ... everything was going great 
> until I hit the corn.  Thankfully the seats belts and shoulder 
> harnesses did their job; upside down I released the belts and got out 
> of there fast.
>
> Walked out, phoned police and after they arrived authorities wanted 
> the ELT shut off so we walked back to the airplane; when I got there I 
> saw oil all over the bottom of fuselage. Checked engine and found the 
> oil-out line (push-lock connector) hanging loose. I expect what 
> happened is when the engine quit and restarted those 2 times that sent 
> a burst of oil pressure and blew the hose off ... I pushed it back on 
> and it would not pull back off again. I had heard some guys were 
> putting heat shrink or other back-up systems on these connectors; I 
> wish now I had used a simple stainless worm clamp.  Engine and redrive 
> will be toast, airplane is substantially damaged ... I'll salvage what 
> I can.
> Jeff
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