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Old April 25th 08, 01:31 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
gatt[_3_]
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Default Lancair crash at SnF

WingFlaps wrote:

A Lancair crashed just moments after takeoff here in Mesa, Arizona,
today, too. Plane was headed for California. There was smoke trailing
from the plane on takeoff and controllers cleared them to turn back
around and land. They tried -- they made the left turn but crashed into
the orange orchard. Three fatalities, all in their late 20s. Sympathies
and prayers to the families.


When will pilots learn to stop trying to do the impossible turn... and
go for a straight ahead landing on soemthing horizontal?


What a bummer.

The Jeppeson Instrument/Commercial text has a great illustration of how
turning to land after losing power on takeoff doesn't work.

-c