[TheForge] OT - sometimes stuff just happens

[dann at wctatel.net]

The Seawind 300 is not a cheap home built airplane  Think $200 K plus :

>From Wikipedia: The Seawind 300 kits are out of production,  but
A standard kit was $59,900 USD in 1999. A Kwick Kit cost an extra $14,500
USD. SNA estimated that it would cost $40,000-65,000 USD for the necessary
components not included with the kit. A fully assembled Seawind kit with
instruments typically cost over $200,000 USD.
The first customer built Seawind 300 was completed in mid 1994.

*****

Like perhaps half of the pilots in America, I have a partially constructed
Experimental in my shed. I am also an EAA member. I earned my private
pilot license more than 40 years ago.

I looked up the Seawind 300. Apparently some of these were originally sold
as a Kit Plane. Usually the main kit plane parts are purchased "premade",
so home construction time and home construction mistakes are cut to a
minimum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawind_300C

The Seawind was supposed to be powered by a Lycoming 360. If I remember
correctly, there was a close clone of a lycoming engine put called a
"Superior" that my lawyer was putting into his experimental aircraft, but
that company went out of business a couple years ago.  Anyway, I think
that my lawyer is putting in a modified GM auto engine in his. My lawyer
is also building an amphibian

Dann




> 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 ><>
>>
>
> --
> terry l. ridder ><>
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