Fuel System Musings, comments encouraged
Survivable Ercoupe crashes where the occupant(s) burned to death (NTSB
Identifiers, no more static URLs for crash reports):
SEA00LA136
NYC98FA107
CHI96FA034 Not clear this one was survivable, absent the fire
MKC82FCG17 Pilot lived a few weeks, died of burns.
NYC85FA222 "water and sludge throughout the fuel system"
This IS not to conclude the Ercoupe is unsafe. Reading accident
reports is always instructive and sobering, but it would take more
analysis than I have time or energy for on a school night to reach
solid conclusions.
Drunks seem to be drawn to Ercoupes is one extremely shaky conclusion
drawn from my reading of 50 fatal accidents since 1962, out of 482
accidents in the same time period.
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