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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 09:15:17 -0400
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From: Jeff Dingbaum <expressct@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Shannon Knoepflein's Legacy Accident
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-- Valin & Allyson Thorn <thorn@starflight.aero> wrote:
> 
> Shannon's death is tragic and painful.  I think most of us can't help
> but feel a certain kinship to all aviators - especially those who are
> building or flying the same airplane as we are.  I knew Shannon mostly
> through the LML discussions.  Reviewing his postings and his builder's

Since I'm just a lurker building an Express, I don't know many of you.  
There are threads that are interesting and relevant to my plane occasionally
and this is certainly one.  I was thinking about this accident since it's
just North of me in territory I fly in regularly. 

There is alot of farmland around there, and as Valin said, golf courses
as well.  Yet Shannon decided to try to make it to Madison.  Ground
quarterbacking is definitely easier than sitting in the hot seat when the
engine quits, but I think the lesson that I'm going to TRY to take here is
that if the engine quits, the insurance company owns the plane and I'm going
to put it down wherever I think I have the best chance of making it out
alive.

I say TRY because we all know what effort, sweat, time away from our spouses,
and the occasional bloody knuckles that we put into creating our one of a
kind birds.  Given the option I might have done what Shannon did, maybe not.
Hopefully if I'm ever faced with that situation, something in the back of
my mind will remember this one and say to me "screw the plane, put it down
in a safe spot".

Jeff Dingbaum
Express 7%
PA28-180D flying


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