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 Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: Ultralight crash in Baldwin County Alabama/Florida |
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| Quote: | We had a Chinook crash a few years ago at Chanute Ks, The airport oper.
was test flying it for a guy. The whole outer 1/3 of the wing just
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folded down and he spun in from 500 ft. He was just flying the pat.
Doing nothing to cause a structal failure. He survived with no injuries
other than a bad back ach.
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It was a Chinook two seat. It had been rebuild and test flown about two
weeks
prior to the accident. It is suspected that there was some type of engine
failure or power loss.
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Thanks Guys for the info....This what I found out too...
Elberta man is killed in plane crash
Thursday, April 20, 2006
By DANIEL JACKSON
Staff Reporter
LILLIAN -- An Elberta pilot died on his 50th birthday Wednesday when the
experimental aircraft he was flying with a friend crashed in a pasture in
this eastern Baldwin County community.
Scott Hanft died immediately after the plane went down about 9 a.m., just
north of a pond at a residence on Sunset Drive in Lillian, the Baldwin
County Sheriff's Office reported.
His passenger, Charles Bingle, 61, of Elberta, was airlifted to
Pensacola's
Baptist Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition after surgery
Wednesday evening, said Stephanie Young, the hospital's assistant director
of nursing.
As members of the Lite Blue Angels, a group of about 40 pilots that fly
experimental and ultralight aircraft from a private airstrip nearby, Hanft
and Bingle had plenty of flying experience, according to several who knew
them.
James Clark, an investigator with the Federal Aviation Administration, who
started searching through the plane's wreckage about 5 p.m., said he had
not
yet determined the cause of the accident.
Larry Nix, who owns the property where the plane fell, said his wife, who
was home ill, heard the crash.
"She said it sounded like it was going to hit the house," Nix said. "She
got
on a golf cart and drove out to them, but by the time she got out there,
some of the guys that were watching them fly at the airstrip had come over
the fence to help."
Ian Garnham, a member of the Lite Blue Angels since about 1996, said Hanft
flew three or four circles solo on a flight path around the airstrip at
Shield's Field, then landed and went up again with Bingle, who owns the
aircraft.
Garnham said experimental aircraft like the one that crashed -- a Chinook
two-seater, single-engine pusher -- do not meet FAA regulations, but they
are proven designs that have been in the air worldwide for years.
An average flight in the plane is about 30 to 40 miles at an altitude of
about 1,000 feet, according to club members.
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