Mark,

 

The source for the summary descriptions are mostly from the reports in the NTSB database and the Air Safety Network database where I have usually shortened them but kept the key content. 

 

The accident in Austria was told to me by Helmut Burner, a Legacy builder in Austria who knew about it and I found a news report on it online.  That one is an example of an accident that I couldn’t find in any official databases but am pretty sure it happened…  How many more are there like it that we can’t find a record of…?  See translated news report below.  I understand from Helmut that the pilot may have lost both of his feet as a result of the accident.

 

Valin

 

 

Photo of Austrian Legacy before its accident, note the USA registration:

 

 

 

 

 

AUSTRIAN LANCAIR LEGACY CRASH

August 2005

 

http://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/54211/

 

Pilot survived crash with small aircraft crash Friday evening in high Ems heavily injured the pilot. The Hohenemser wanted to undertake one approximately with its sport airplane 20-minütigen round flight. The 54-jährige Hohenemser fell with its sport airplane shortly after the start of approximately 300 meters behind the airfield and thereby several fractures and a head injury suffered.

 

 

 

The man was started at 19.28 o'clock Dornbirn, in order to fly his self built airplane before closing the airfield at 20.00 o'clock a short round. Still before the transverse takeoff the misfortune happened. An eye-witness indicated that the hood " itself; Lancair Legacy" opened, which smashed a little later in the proximity of the Vorarlberger of Tierheims on Dornbirner Gemeindegebiet and broke into three parts.

 

600 km/h cruising speed " Legacy" a maximum cruising speed of more than 600 km/h is considered as the fastest single-engine sport airplane of the world and reaches.

 

The exact crash cause is examined at present. Probably the entrance hatch was not properly closed.

 

Woman who observed the crash jumped in her small car and drove to the accident scene. To the trip there it had to change over to a bicycle driver, it fell with its small car in a ditch. The woman was admitted in the hospital.

 

 

 

 

 

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