Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #50352
From: Kevin Stallard <Kevin@arilabs.net>
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Subject: RE: [LML] Legacy damaged
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:35:25 -0500
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It is nice to see some one walk away from these things.

 

I’m sure I’m not the only one wanting to know what happened and what the plane felt like during this event.

 

Isn’t he glad he wasn’t flying a Kantana DA-20 or DA-40 with the canopy open.  It will be a lot of work, but I hope he gets his bird flying again.

 

David, if you’re reading this, I’m so very happy you are still with us.

 

Kevin

 

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bill Hannahan
Sent: 2009-02-05 11:44
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Legacy damaged

 

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.



Bill Hannahan

 

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