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From: Jerry Fisher <jeremyfisher@verizon.net>
Subject: More Lancair Accidents
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As a result of Matt Hapgood's report of another 360 accident, I went to 
the NTSB web site and saw two more recent Lancair accidents.  A Lancair 
360 crashed in Australia on April 5 and the pilot was killed.  A 
newspaper report reads,

"The man who died in a plane crash in south-western Sydney this 
afternoon was the President of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots 
Association of Australia, Ron Bertram.

Air Services Australia is investigating the crash, which happened at 
Bankstown airport after the single engine plane did a steep right turn, 
about 380 metres above the ground.

An association board member and past President, Bill Hamilton, says Mr 
Bertram died doing what he loved.

"The aircraft, a Lancair, was an aircraft on which he'd been performing 
maintenance," he said.

"As well as a pilot and an instructor he was also an aircraft engineer.

"He'd been performing routine maintenance on the aircraft and he took 
the aircraft out for an airtest, which is a quite normal thing after 
routine maintenance." 

 From other reports it sounds as if he was doing touch and gos.

A Lancair IV crashed in Montana on April 14, following a night engine 
failure.  Think about handling that emergency!  Happily no one was 
injured, but the aircraft was burnt out.

Not a good month.

Jerry Fisher