I hope that was meant to be an IO-550 and a Continental at that... To the
best of my knowledge, 99, never had a lycoming glued to it...

Alan

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Halle, John
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Subject: [LML] 99L

 Russell writes:

"Once, I completed the required time for the insurance company, I did not
want to get back into 99L. I felt the mechanical condition of the aircraft
was questionable and the airframe structural integrity was weekend because
of all the cycles it has been through."

For what it is worth, the reason for the 99L crash was a catastrophic engine
failure that occurred without warning.  The engine was a stock IO-540 that I
think was purchased from Lycoming as a factory reman and was less than a
year old.  As far as I know, it would have happened in any aircraft and had
nothing to do with 99L or its state of maintenance.
It's not very common but once in a while there is an accident that has
nothing to do with pilot or maintenance error.  This was one of them.

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