Great "catch", Prof. Ed
This published account again confirms circumstances identical to those
experienced by Bob Sanders, who was suddenly and unexpectedly ejected
forward and out of an Ercoupe in the process of catastrophic structural
failure. ERCO suggested at that time the cause was in-flight stresses
in excess of design requirements beginning with failure of the wing tip
ribs following by downward deflection of the outer panel(s) followed by
negative G stress failure of the spar center section followed by
airframe disintegration.
Bob Sanders, as a test pilot, was definitely wearing a seat belt and a
parachute when he was ejected in the process of total structural
disintegration.
At that time, all CAA people that would have been concerned or involved
were degreed engineers. They were satisfied that no problem existed
with the "fleet" at that time. Now we have FAA people that may NOT be
engineers (we don't know) prematurely speculating before a final
accident report.
I again suggest that it is unwise to make immediate, specific and
possibly very costly response to what likely is the "wrong" root
problem. We should not blindly follow the FAA down the wrong rat hole.
Regards,
WRB
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On Sep 27, 2009, at 19:38, [email protected] wrote:
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Plane Fell Apart
SEBRING - A Federal Aviation Administration investigator was on the
scene Sunday of a plane crash that happened at Golf Hammock Saturday.
Witnesses also saw the pilot, James Weener, 70, and his passenger
James Ricker, 46, ejected from the plane, and land in a dense group of
trees beside the 10th fairway.
The FAA was called, but investigators normally don't respond to light
plane crashes, the Highlands County Sheriff's deputy said.
"But because the plane came apart in mid air, and the bodies were
ejected, he took a higher interest in it," Purvis said.
