A Legacy (N939CB) was damaged last Friday at Longmont Co airport, LMO, around 6 PM, almost dark. The pilot David Williams of Wonderview, escaped without injury.

http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?ID=14174

Taking off on 29 the canopy opened. Apparently the plane made a pattern to land on 29. It hit the top edge of an embankment about 150 yd SE of the numbers, 29. The impact tore off the gear. It skimmed across the embankment, through a twisted wire fence, then dropped about 4 ft onto flat ground and skidded to a stop about 100 yd from the initial impact point.

Four metal fence posts cut into the wing to the spar and it tore 300’ of wire off the fence. The ground track was parallel to but about 100 feet south of the runway centerline.

Two feet lower and it would have been a very sudden stop against the embankment.