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Fred Fowler wrote:
> The first was about ten years ago. They had a Coupe fly
> in at
> was there and spoke to most of the pilots
including a guy
> from
> and the next morning the father and son flew up to
> Kingman for breakfast despite winds 20 to 30mph
> prevailing. While on final approach at Kingman
they hit a
> downdraft and when they bottomed out one wing in the
> wing stub cracked back a few inches and the plane
rolled
> over and straight into the ground, both were killed.
> Inspection of the bottom section indicated high
corrosion
> through out the stub section, and shortly after the FAA
> mandated the second AD on the wing section, the first
> being the main wing panels, the new one being new
> panels in the bottom of the stub or wing removal every
> three years for inspection.
Fred,
I had not known that the Kingman crash was due to
corrosion. The second one I referred to was another event in which the
owner was flying solo and was thought to do aerobatics in his plane.
So, that brings my count to three lost due to structural
failure of the wings in the last 26 years. One that seems to be purely
due to corrosion and two due, I think, to aerobatics.
There was one other structural failure incident in, I think,
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