Fearless Tower
Touchdown! Greaser!
I don't think there is a latch so to speak, just a detent, but it has been a couple years.
PA32 crash near IRK - High-timer. ???
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I don't think there is a latch so to speak, just a detent, but it has been a couple years.
nddons
Touchdown! Greaser!
In every article I've read on the crash, they claim the wreckage was spread over 300 yards. Does that sound like an excessively long distance to anyone else?
flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
Not necessarily. That's 900 feet, or about the distance of a landing roll in that plane. It means they didn't fall out of the sky - IE, likely not a stall/spin - And that they had a significant horizontal component of their motion when they hit the ground, and likely not a very high vertical component. If the plane cartwheeled, I can see parts being spread across a 300-yard distance pretty easily.
fiveoboy01
Pattern Altitude
Apparently the aircraft was under power, ruling out fuel starvation. I can't confirm that, just something I overheard.