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Powell man dies from injuries in small-plane crash
By JIM BALLOCH, balloch@knews.com
October 22, 2003

One of two men who were injured in the crash of a small light aircraft
has died. Mark Mailhos, 35, of Powell, who was apparently the passenger in the
single-engine aircraft, died of his injuries at the University of
Tennessee Medical Center. The pilot of the airplane, Glenn E. Griffin, 49, of Knoxville, is
listed in stable condition at UT Medical Center. Griffin and Mailhos were friends from church, said Tom Davis, a pilot
and instructor at Cox Sky Ranch. Davis taught Griffin to fly a number of years ago and described him as
a good pilot. Davis said Griffin has told family members that the engine made a
popping sound, ran into rough downwind and quit on the final approach. The airplane hit an embankment surrounding the runway Monday and broke
up on impact, according to Knoxville Police Department and Knoxville
Fire Department authorities. The aircraft is a Lancair 360. It is designated an "experimental"
aircraft because it is a homebuilt plane, one that is purchased in kit
form to be assembled. The basic Lancair 360 has a 180-horsepower engine and a cruising speed
of about 235 mph, according to an aviation Web site. Griffin had recently been working on the engine with the help of a
mechanic and had been making a number of test runs, Davis said. The Federal Aviation Administration has sent an inspector from its
Nashville office to investigate the accident, according to FAA
spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen of the agency's Atlanta office. The National Transportation Safety Board also will participate in the
investigation but is not sending a representative to the scene, said
NTSB investigator Kathy Gagne. "We typically do not go to the scene if it is an experimental
aircraft," Gagne said. "FAA will conduct the on-scene investigation. We
will coordinate with them." Monday's accident was the first fatal crash at Cox Sky Ranch in about
20 years, Davis said.