[TheForge] OT - sometimes stuff just happens

[Ron Childers]

Thanks, Terry, I was a charter member of EAA Chapter 445 in Tallahassee,
Fl. If I saw the overall appearance of a homebuilt lacked workmanship I
would pass on flying it. I told a guy I was afraid to fly his Jeanie's
Teenie because my wife was too young- (to be a widow). It was VW powered
and he crash landed a couple of times before another friend had to dead
stick into a swamp and ruined both feet. A Volks Plane crashed into a
pick-up on I-10 with the same result. Apparently it was carburetor ice.
I helped build a Breezy and none of my welds broke but we were using
aircraft tubing, not 1/2" conduit and coat hanger wire and the engine
was a real aircraft engine. (I did use duck tape years ago to patch a
wing on a Piper Tri-Pacer due to a collision with a duck). One of our
guys built a Pitts Special and every detail looked perfect so I was not
afraid to fly it, but like a borrowed policeman's Harley hawg; straight
and level. Those toys are too expensive to risk breaking.

The safety issue is true of homemade power hammers; a guy cut a coil off
the spring on a tire hammer and the ram hits it on the upstroke. I told
the guy that bought it to get a new spring because it is a matter of
when, not if the spring comes out and hits him in the head. With over
300 of those hammers in use the same spring has been used unaltered, but
"When a *wise* man contendeth with a foolish man, there will be no
rest".  

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of terry l. ridder
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 11:29 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT - sometimes stuff just happens

hello ron;

the plane was purchased from the original builder in minnesota.
i do not know which of the two people onboard actually owned the plane.
the plane was a seawind 3000. there was no flight recorder and no black
box in the plane. the plane was built to composite material and had full
fuel onboard when it crashed. the plane was totally consumed by the
fire. no one is sure who was piloting the plane when it crashed. both
people onboard when it crashed have 3rd degree burns over 60 percent of
their body. the last i had heard was that they were both in coma.

the plane took off from an airport with no air traffic control tower, no
flight plan was logged.

the ntsb has very little if anything to go on.

the eye witness reports are typical eye witness reports. unreliable.

On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Ron Childers wrote:

> Terry, do you know any details as to the cause of the crash? I have 
> seen cases of failures where safety was sacrificed in an effort to 
> save money. NTSB, while thorough, is seemingly slow releasing the 
> results of their investigations.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of terry l. ridder
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 1:14 AM
> To: theforge e-mail list
> Subject: [TheForge] OT - sometimes stuff just happens
>
> hello;
>
> sometimes stuff just happens.
>
> one of the two people onboard that homebuilt experiemental airplane 
> that crashed in the publix store in florida this past week, is one of 
> my lawyers.
>
> he has burns over 60 percent of his body and is currently in a coma.
>
> there is no good way of knowing what he is aware of.
>
> there are things far worse than death.
>
>
> --
> terry l. ridder ><>
>

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terry l. ridder ><>
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