Hi Mike, That airframe was Serial No. B-290, one of the last A-2As built.
If you can establish contact with the authorities that will investigate, I'd like to learn the month and year from the airframe dataplate, as well as whether that plate is Alon or Mooney. If they get the logs, the manufacture date (date of forst flight) would also be of interest. The crash picture shows high wires, perhaps hit on landing approach. The second URL seems to refer to another crash at the same airport (unless this was a midair collision). The aircraft shown there is NOT an Alon. Can anyone translate? Regards, WRB -- On Mar 7, 2010, at 12:16, Mike Willis wrote: > Hi Group, > > Unfortunately there has been a fatal crash killing both occupants in > Portugal yesterday. From what I can gather Alon A-2A Aircoupe, CS-AIG > was > landing at Montemor-o-Novo. > > There are some details in Portuguese and some photos at > http://desastresaereosnews.blogspot.com/2010/03/dois-mortos-em-queda- > de-avia > o-em.html and > http://www.vox.com.pt/noticia-detalhe-media.asp?id=532542&t=Queda-de- > aeronav > e-mata-dois. > > Mike > > [email protected] > www.ercoupe.co.uk > > Alon A2 Aircoupe > A-188 > G-HARY >
