X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-SpamCatcher-Score: 30 [X] Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:10:21 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com ([205.188.144.207] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.7) with ESMTP id 1876534 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:08:33 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.188.144.207; envelope-from=RMiller904@aol.com Received: from RMiller904@aol.com by imo-d21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.6.) id q.cd6.a24be40 (14457) for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:07:25 -0500 (EST) From: RMiller904@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:07:25 EST Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Stupid Pilot, stupid people-- I know the guy who drove into Lak... X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1172768845" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5354 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1172768845 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/1/2007 12:04:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, marv@lancair.net writes: Here's a picture of an AeroComp that I helped haul out of Clear Lake just outside of downtown Orlando a few years back. On landing one of the rear struts that attached the floats to the fuselage failed, the float assembly buckled, the prop hit the water and the airplane immediately flipped over on its back. We were at the scene within 3 minutes and both occupants had already been rescued by someone on a party barge. Both the pilot and passenger were pretty shaken up but not much worse for the wear. I figure they nosed over somewhere around 60-70 knots, so the impact had to be brutal. It took us 8 hours to haul the wreckage back to shore, get it disassembled, and laid out in the yard in pieces. It was quite the day. The pilot did much of the work, BTW, so his injuries didn't appear to be all that bad. Neither he nor his passenger required any medical attention. Shared only as a data point to this discussion. -- For archives and unsub http://mail.lancaironline.net/lists/lml/ A Comp 7 went in not long ago at Merritt and the Doc and his little dog neither got hurt, it tore the gear off the plane but stayed upright.


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In a message dated 3/1/2007 12:04:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,=20 marv@lancair.net writes:
<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size= =3D2>Here's a=20 picture of an AeroComp that I helped haul out of Clear Lake just
outsi= de=20 of downtown Orlando a few years back.  On landing one of the rear=20
struts that attached the floats to the fuselage failed, the float asse= mbly=20
buckled, the prop hit the water and the airplane immediately flipped o= ver=20 on
its back.  We were at the scene within 3 minutes and both=20 occupants had
already been rescued by someone on a party barge. =20= Both=20 the pilot and
passenger were pretty shaken up but not much worse for t= he=20 wear.  I figure
they nosed over somewhere around 60-70 knots, so=20= the=20 impact had to be brutal.

It took us 8 hours to haul the wreckage ba= ck=20 to shore, get it disassembled,
and laid out in the yard in pieces.&nbs= p;=20 It was quite the day.  The pilot did much
of the work, BTW, so hi= s=20 injuries didn't appear to be all that bad.  Neither
he nor his=20 passenger required any medical attention.  Shared only as a data=20
point to this discussion.

  =20 <Marv>


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A Comp 7 went in not long ago at Merritt and the Doc and= his=20 little dog neither got hurt, it tore the gear off the plane but stayed=20 upright.



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