on the suicide note subject. did that happen in Washington State?

GK



On Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:51:49 PM UTC-7, James Lee wrote:
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:48:16 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:

On Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:35:45 PM UTC-4, kirk.stant wrote:



I know of a passenger that broke an ankle in a stalled 2-33 crash that broke the plane in two (behind the wing trailing edge)...







I only have anecdotes wrt survivability of 2-33 crashes, but your anecdote seems pretty favorable. I'd be happy to simply break an ankle and hop away from the front seat of a stalled and crashed glider.



I was interested by this discussion and looked in the NTSB reports - if I am counting right, in the US, only one person has ever died in the back seat of a 2-33. Six people total have been killed, in five crashes. One of those who died was a suicide - no kidding, he actually left a note. No one has been killed in a 2-33 since 1978.



There have been 226 reported, non-fatal accidents. That makes 231 reported accidents total, with 2.16% being fatal.