Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:37:23 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-r03.mx.aol.com ([152.163.225.99] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.3) with ESMTP id 2587277 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:28:01 -0400 Received: from VTAILJEFF@aol.com by imo-r03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id q.146.19498c62 (3972) for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:27:58 -0400 (EDT) From: VTAILJEFF@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <146.19498c62.2c9e4a8e@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:27:58 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] Needless loss N27RM X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1064104078" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 920 -------------------------------1064104078 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Accidents happen, planes can be rebuilt, people can't. I am glad you are OK. Thanks for sharing your lessons with us. Jeff Edwards LIVP N619SJ Oh yes, I went off the runway at the Redmond fly in with a brake failure a few weeks back. Landed and stated going right. Stepped on rudder to get it back to centerline, then with end of runway approaching and still going about 30-40 knots elected to make a right into infield rather than go into lights at end. No damage, pretty eyewatering experience. Brake line failed (nylaflow) inside gear leg. Tim Ong says there have been other failures and they are working on a fix. Would have been disastrous on a short runway with heavy braking on touchdown or a narrow runway with obstacles. -------------------------------1064104078 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Accidents happen, planes can be rebuilt, people can't. I am glad you ar= e OK. Thanks for sharing your lessons with us.

Jeff Edwards

LIVP N619SJ

Oh yes, I went off the runway at the Redmond fly in with a brake=20= failure a few weeks back. Landed and stated going right. Stepped on rudder t= o get it back to centerline, then with end of runway approaching and still g= oing about 30-40 knots elected to make a right into infield rather than go i= nto lights at end. No damage, pretty eyewatering experience. Brake lin= e failed (nylaflow) inside gear leg. Tim Ong says there have been other fail= ures and they are working on a fix. Would have been disastrous on a short ru= nway with heavy braking on touchdown or a narrow runway with obstacles. -------------------------------1064104078--