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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Update
Valin,
If I may ask, where did you get the data included in the
"Summary Description" field of your database?