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Old September 1st 19, 07:43 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Mike the Strike
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Default Kawa rough landing?

On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 11:10:50 PM UTC+1, Andrzej Kobus wrote:
On Saturday, August 31, 2019 at 3:31:32 PM UTC-4, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Not sure how accurate FB translate is, but it appear as if Mr. Kawa had some sort of incident with an electric motor not working and a rough uphill landing. Gas, electric or jet be careful guys!

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I only found a brief report on his Facebook page - a short description with half-a-dozen photos. My reading is that he got stuck in a long valley and deployed the motor at about 1,000m AGL, the boom deployed but the motor failed to run. He landed on what looked like the best field but found it was rougher than it looked as well as steeply uphill. After touchdown, a hump sent him airborne, but because of the uphill landing was unable to regain flying speed and it fell in from about 2 meters, breaking both wheels.

He says that all major airframe components were undamaged apart from the gear. The tone of his post sounds a bit embarrassed, but this is exactly the sort of accident that can happen to any one of us in a field landing.

Mike