Percy, When N99893 went down, the FAA, released the plane without ever seeing it in the field... we put a guard around it for the night. they really were not interested in it.
The following day our insurance, released the plane to us and paid to have it removed from the field and place into our hanger. No insurance adjuster ever saw N99893.... about 1 week later the NTSB. which happen to be a FAA inspector out of the San Jose, office ventured into Salinas, to have a look at the plane, by this time the insurance had paid off to us and we bought her back from the insurance company. The so called FAA/NTSB inspector did every thing in his power to make it a pilot error, with the blame still being the new gasolator purchased from wag areo. The thing that still fries us is the fact that Wag Aero , to this day still sells that part to any one that wants to buy it... even after the NTSB. testing lab proved that the glue used was not compatible to aviation gas.... They even went so far as to try to blame our mechanic... that didn't work either. I guess if the insurance ever got their money back from wag aero, we were not privy to that information. Audean Woollard N6596Q
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