I wonder if he ran out of gas? The report sounds like the flight was a
powered event. Did he get shook when the put-put quit? No logical
reason to do a 360 in the pattern, if you have excess
altitude..............just extend the down-wind a bit, unless you got
shook when the noise stopped. I guess the survivor can tell us. Sounds
like he didn't want to go any farther down-wind for fear he couldn't
get back without the motor?
Sad,
JJ