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1. 12:45 PM - A very bad day at the airport (Merems)
2. 01:09 PM - Re: A very bad day at the airport (Mark Burns)
3. 02:23 PM - Re: A very bad day at the airport (Franz Fux)
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Fellow builders,
I want to share with you a very bad day at the airport.
I was attending a pancake breakfast with our local EAA chapter at La Cholla Airpark
just north of Tucson AZ. A dozen or so aircraft arrived and another two
dozen or so visitors arrived for a wonderful morning of food and airplanes. One
of the aircraft that arrived was a turbine Legend (composite, high performance
aircraft). It announced it's arrival with a high speed flyby and landed.
However when it went to takeoff, something went wrong, very wrong. It appeared
to lift off the runway way too early (about 1/3 what you would have expected)
pitch up and roll sharply to the port side. At about 75-100' it was still
nose high and rolling sharply to its port side. Then the nose pitched down.
The aircraft was now heading towards the ground but my view became obscured by
a house and tree line (yes we do have trees in Arizona). A second later was
impact followed by smoke. Both soles on board died. No houses or people on the
ground were hurt.
Since it was a EAA breakfast fly-in there were pilots all around speculating on
what had happened. What went wrong. Some are speculating it was a high performance
takeoff the pilot lost control due to the torque effect and the 700+ horse
power engine. I don't know if we will ever know. 15 years earlier an RV-4
pilot decided to do a roll on takeoff at this same airport and killed himself
and his passenger.
I hope I never have a day like this again.
Paul
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| Subject: | A very bad day at the airport |
Paul,
All you can do is try and not let it upset you too much. Time will take some
of the edge off.
Things like this just happen.
My prayers are with the families involved.
Mark
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Subject: RV7-List: A very bad day at the airport
Fellow builders,
I want to share with you a very bad day at the airport.
I was attending a pancake breakfast with our local EAA chapter at La Cholla
Airpark just north of Tucson AZ. A dozen or so aircraft arrived and another
two dozen or so visitors arrived for a wonderful morning of food and
airplanes. One of the aircraft that arrived was a turbine Legend
(composite, high performance aircraft). It announced it's arrival with a
high speed flyby and landed. However when it went to takeoff, something
went wrong, very wrong. It appeared to lift off the runway way too early
(about 1/3 what you would have expected) pitch up and roll sharply to the
port side. At about 75-100' it was still nose high and rolling sharply to
its port side. Then the nose pitched down. The aircraft was now heading
towards the ground but my view became obscured by a house and tree line (yes
we do have trees in Arizona). A second later was impact followed by smoke.
Both soles on board died. No houses or people on the ground were hurt.
Since it was a EAA breakfast fly-in there were pilots all around speculating
on what had happened. What went wrong. Some are speculating it was a high
performance takeoff the pilot lost control due to the torque effect and the
700+ horse power engine. I don't know if we will ever know. 15 years
earlier an RV-4 pilot decided to do a roll on takeoff at this same airport
and killed himself and his passenger.
I hope I never have a day like this again.
Paul
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| Subject: | A very bad day at the airport |
Thank you for sharing this very terrible experience with us. My prayers go
out to all the people involved in this tragic accident. May we learn
something from it.
Franz
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From: owner-rv7-list-server@matronics.com
[mailto:owner-rv7-list-server@matronics.com]On Behalf Of Merems
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 12:49 PM
To: RV-8@yahoogroups.com; RV10 Group; RV7and7A@yahoogroups.com;
rv7-list@matronics.com; RV-9A@yahoogroups.com; rv9-list@matronics.com
Subject: RV7-List: A very bad day at the airport
Fellow builders,
I want to share with you a very bad day at the airport.
I was attending a pancake breakfast with our local EAA chapter at La
Cholla Airpark just north of Tucson AZ. A dozen or so aircraft arrived and
another two dozen or so visitors arrived for a wonderful morning of food and
airplanes. One of the aircraft that arrived was a turbine Legend
(composite, high performance aircraft). It announced it's arrival with a
high speed flyby and landed. However when it went to takeoff, something
went wrong, very wrong. It appeared to lift off the runway way too early
(about 1/3 what you would have expected) pitch up and roll sharply to the
port side. At about 75-100' it was still nose high and rolling sharply to
its port side. Then the nose pitched down. The aircraft was now heading
towards the ground but my view became obscured by a house and tree line (yes
we do have trees in Arizona). A second later was impact followed by smoke.
Both soles on board died. No houses or people on the ground were hurt.
Since it was a EAA breakfast fly-in there were pilots all around
speculating on what had happened. What went wrong. Some are speculating it
was a high performance takeoff the pilot lost control due to the torque
effect and the 700+ horse power engine. I don't know if we will ever know.
15 years earlier an RV-4 pilot decided to do a roll on takeoff at this same
airport and killed himself and his passenger.
I hope I never have a day like this again.
Paul
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