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robertrv607(at)yahoo.com
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 Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:11 am Post subject: Sun and fun |
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Hi:
Does any one knows anything about the accident,
of plane on Sunday, at Sun and Fun...?
Wanted to know what kind of plane etc....
Bertrv67
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garrys(at)tampabay.rr.com
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: Sun and fun |
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My understanding is that the plane to go down on Sunday was a Lancair.
Garry
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pitts_pilot(at)bellsouth.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject: Sun and fun |
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The best info I have is that it was a Lancair, and the canopy came open
on takeoff. Eyewitnesses said they saw charts and other papers fly out
of the open canopy. The WHY he crashed, I don't know. It appears that
it went in vertically and was pretty much consumed in the fire. I
wasn't one of the eyewitnesses so I can't comment directly. My info was
obtained not too long after the accident. The info sources should have
known the facts for sure, though.
My sympathies and condolences lay with the friends and relatives.
Linn
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Does any one knows anything about the accident,
of plane on Sunday, at Sun and Fun...?
Wanted to know what kind of plane etc....
Bertrv67
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pitts_pilot(at)bellsouth.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: Sun and fun |
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Two emails later after my reply, I get this email:
Linn
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Subject: Fwd: Sun-Fun Crash
LAL Takeoff Crash Pilot's Identity Released
| Quote: | Plane Received Outstanding Homebuilt Award At Show
ANN REALTIME UPDATE 04.14.08 1200 EDT: Aero-News learned Monday
morning the identity of the pilot lost in Sunday's takeoff accident at
the Lakeland fly-in has been confirmed.
According to several news reports, Gerard Schkolnik was at the controls
of the Lancair Legacy when it crashed less than a mile off the departure
end of Runway 27 at Lakeland-Linder Regional Airport. The aircraft was
consumed in a post-impact fire.
The loss carries an added pall of sadness... as earlier Sunday, the
Experimental Aircraft Association announced Schkolnik's plane was among
the winners of the group's Outstanding Homebuilt Aircraft award.
ORIGINAL REPORT
A pilot who had just taken off from Lakeland Linder Airport (LAL) was
killed Sunday morning when his Lancair Legacy crashed less than one mile
west of the runway.
The Tampa Tribune reports the aircraft, a two-seat Lancair Legacy
homebuilt, impacted a pasture near Hamilton Road, about 3/4 mile off the
departure end of runway 27.
Sunday was the final day of the annual Sun 'N Fun Fly-In at LAL, and is
traditionally a busy day for aircraft departures. "Because of the nature
of the crash scene it wasn't immediately obvious whether there were one
or two victims," said Scott Wilder, spokesman for the Polk County
sheriff's office. "We're getting conflicting reports."
FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen confirmed the accident aircraft (file
photo of type, shown below) was registered to Wilmington, DE-based G-Kas
Aviation LLC. "Presumably, the person on board was attending the air
show," Bergen said.
Agency records list the plane's registration as N1177M, a 2006 Lancair
Legacy assembled by Thomas Dayan -- who was lost in a June 2006 downing
of a Lancair 360, reports the Tribune.
According to the EAA, the accident plane had just received an award for
Outstanding Homebuilt Aircraft at the 2008 show.
The accident marks the second fatality associated with this year's show
in Lakeland. As ANN reported, the pilot of a CH601 Zodiac was killed
when his plane crashed near Polk City, 13 miles northeast of LAL, on
April 8. The pilot, later identified as Robert Dodson, was on his way to
the fly-in when the accident occurred.
Sunday's accident -- combined with others in the past six years at Sun
'N Fun, including a 2002 mid-air collision and last year's fatal downing
of a Wheeler Express that crashed short of the runway -- is making some
who live near the airport nervous about the fly-in, reports the Tribune.
"Last year, they had one go down," said Steven Edwards, who lives near
where the Lancair crashed. "It's just too close for comfort."
FMI: www.eaa.org/news/2008/2008-04-13_awards.asp
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Hi:
Does any one knows anything about the accident,
of plane on Sunday, at Sun and Fun...?
Wanted to know what kind of plane etc....
Bertrv67
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