Aviation Incidents from Kathryn's Report

5 pilots have died??? or I think you mean the A5 pilots who died where test pilots?

 

Oh my, KarKow was the chief engineer, and very, very well respected in his field...


https://www.wired.com/2017/05/icon-a5-crash-kills-2-including-unique-planes-lead-engineer/

https://gearpatrol.com/2017/05/09/jon-karkow-aviation-loses-a-star/

Karkow, a highly regarded engineer, spent more than two decades with Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites, an outfit known for designing unconventional aircraft. There, Karkow led the development of more than 20 aircraft programs, including adventurer Steve Fossett’s Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer. (Fossett flew the plane around the world twice, setting multiple records.) Karkow, also the program’s chief test pilot, won a 2006 Aeronautics Laureate Award from Aviation Week & Space Technology for the achievement. He worked on the development of SpaceShipTwo, the commercial suborbital spacecraft being developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, before joining Icon about nine years ago.



The fatal crash is particularly distressing given the safety-first design of the aircraft, and Karkow’s experience piloting far more radical aircraft while at Scaled Composites. It’s unknown whether Karkow was testing or demonstrating the spin-resistance of the wing design at the time of the crash, and whether that or another flaw or structural failure contributed to the accident. The destruction of the aircraft on the lakeshore, visible in photographs, suggests a steep vertical descent. The National Transportation Safety Board expects to publish a preliminary report by the end of next week.

 

Kathryn's Report

Anyone in the military or otherwise been around something like this? Sad, fast, messy. Googled and a few of these came up.

https://youtu.be/ARVKx2OeWWI

Mechanic sucked into jet engine (gruesome) - snopes.com

 

Here's the one where the Navy crewman survives. I wonder why it backfired or whatever the correct term for this is? Something must have gone through the fans?

https://youtu.be/v2v1Pgpzp88

 

In retrospec, not a good title for a thread. It was a human life and tragic, just unfortunate that it was the first thing that popped in my mind. That big fan is the nearest thing to a food processor that I can think of. Bad about that sometimes, my filter was broken this morning.

 

Do they always wait for DNA proof?

Kathryn's Report

"The man was from the Western United States and worked for Hawaii-based Trans-Pacific Jets for about one year. He was older than his 33-year-old co-pilot and had 15 to 20 years of flying experience.

The man worked for a variety of charter companies. According to public records, the aircraft he flew was built in 1981 and owned by A&C Big Sky Aviation LLC in Billings, Montana.

Still, a full month later, authorities have not released the name of the pilot of the LearJet 35 that crashed May 15 in Carlstadt on approach to Teterboro Airport.

The fiery accident killed First Officer Jeffrey Alino of Union, who was identified by fingerprints, and Alino's piloting partner, who remains unidentified."

"It's weird," said Joe Orlando, spokesman for the borough of Carlstadt. "You would think after all this time we would have heard something. I can't figure out why we only have one name."

 

Kathryn's Report: Cirrus SR22, A J Air Inc., N508AJ: Fatal accident occurred June 10, 2016 at Williamson County Regional Airport (KMWA) Marion, Illinois

I hate to read these, where people get killed in training. Seems so useless. So what happened? Stall? Sounds like the Cirrus is dangerous argument?

 

That's what I was thinking just interesting to hear his instructor basically blame it on the plane. At least that's the way I took it. But only he knows, his friend is dead.

We were coming around what's called a left base to come in to land, and the plane did a couple of very erratic maneuvers I would never do, and John would never do so their had to be a reason," explains Greiner.

Greiner has no independent memory of what happened that day. All of his accounts were told to him by others.

"There's speculation, but nobody really truly knows exactly what happened," says Greiner.

The accident left him with severe traumatic brain injury. Allema

 

Damn crazy story! Worth the read, looks like he's had a troubled life. Gotta love Kathryns report!

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