Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #43081
From: Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
Subject: Mistral Down
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:31:15 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Thanks, Bill, for the link.
 
Looks like Steve shed both wings (at least one in the tree) which may have contributed to his survival - interesting no indication of fire. 
 
 I remember when Finn Lassen went into the trees at Shady Bend, he lost his wings, that - and his fuel tank and engine sheared off the fuselage and became a fireball a few yards in front of seat in which he was suspended upside down a few feet off the ground - all which undoubted contributed to his miraculous survival.
 
Ed
 
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