Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:33:07 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mail.indian-creek.net ([209.176.40.9] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b4) with ESMTP id 120420 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:59:04 -0400 Received: from VAIO (sl19.du.indian-creek.net [209.176.40.35] toucan@78055.com) by mail.indian-creek.net with SMTP (IOA-IPAD 4.02) id 77EJX00 for ; Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:58:29 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <004a01c448a9$ade4c360$2328b0d1@VAIO> From: "Jim Cameron" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" Subject: IV's and IV-P's -- unsafe at any speed? X-Original-Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:58:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0047_01C4487F.C3DFFF60" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01C4487F.C3DFFF60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Don't know if anyone's really compiling the statistics, but I'm = wondering if there has ever been a plane with as bad a safety record as = the IV-series Lancairs. If this were a certificated or commercial = airplane, the hue and cry would have grounded the whole fleet long ago. = It seems to me that, based on the number of total airframe losses and = the number of associated fatalities, this design ought to be put on the = shelf for good. Jim Cameron Legacy N121J ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01C4487F.C3DFFF60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Don't know if = anyone's really=20 compiling the statistics, but I'm wondering if there has ever been a = plane with=20 as bad a safety record as the IV-series Lancairs. If this were a=20 certificated or commercial airplane, the hue and cry would have grounded = the=20 whole fleet long ago. It seems to me that, based on the number of = total=20 airframe losses and the number of associated fatalities, = this design=20 ought to be put on the shelf for good.

Jim Cameron

Legacy N121J

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