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cjpilot710(at)aol.com
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 Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:03 am Post subject: the elevator horn, on Bill's airplane WAS NOT broken |
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Just to reemphasized, the elevator horn, on Bill's airplane WAS NOT broken. Myself and Shane Golden went to the wreckage site, and inspected just for that. The airplane was almost totally consumed by fire. The FAA/NTSB will have a hard time determining if anything mechanically was amiss. The distance from the impact point to the airplane was about 10 yards. I personally did not see the crash but ensuing fireball. The video I saw showed a angle of about 80 degrees nose down, others who witnessed it said it was much less a steep angle.
Bill and the team had flown this routine almost a hundred times. They done the same routine twice already that day. Plus having practiced a number of times while we were at Waycross earlier in the week.
Personally guys, all of us here loved this guy, and this is really hard to take. There will be long hours trying to figure out what happen. There will be some wild speculations, "told you so's", and a lot of Monday morning quarter backing. I hope we can avoid that kind of BS at the same time we as a group need to know what happened. But for his sake and that of his family and friends, we need to get it right. Bill would have wanted that.
Jim "Pappy" Goolsby
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:21 am Post subject: the elevator horn, on Bill's airplane WAS NOT broken |
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Thanks Pappy…my thoughts and prayers are with Wild Bill’s family as well as the members of Red Thunder.
The NTSB investigation will answer most of the questions in time. If nothing was jammed in the elevator bell crank and no other mechanical issues can be determined then it comes down to physiological factors. On that we will just have to wait on the tissue toxicology reports to make a call. No amount of speculation will answer the questions until the final report. Even then it may not give all the answers.
Blue Skies and Tail winds…Wild Bill… may God rest your soul.
Doc
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Subject: the elevator horn, on Bill's airplane WAS NOT broken
Just to reemphasized, the elevator horn, on Bill's airplane WAS NOT broken. Myself and Shane Golden went to the wreckage site, and inspected just for that. The airplane was almost totally consumed by fire. The FAA/NTSB will have a hard time determining if anything mechanically was amiss. The distance from the impact point to the airplane was about 10 yards. I personally did not see the crash but ensuing fireball. The video I saw showed a angle of about 80 degrees nose down, others who witnessed it said it was much less a steep angle.
Bill and the team had flown this routine almost a hundred times. They done the same routine twice already that day. Plus having practiced a number of times while we were at Waycross earlier in the week.
Personally guys, all of us here loved this guy, and this is really hard to take. There will be long hours trying to figure out what happen. There will be some wild speculations, "told you so's", and a lot of Monday morning quarter backing. I hope we can avoid that kind of BS at the same time we as a group need to know what happened. But for his sake and that of his family and friends, we need to get it right. Bill would have wanted that.
Jim "Pappy" Goolsby
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