Crash near Miami, FL

Those seaplanes were built to operate on the ocean. They
also have probably been rebuilt several times with
replacement of the skin and other structure. Much more
likely is that a new fuel line to the new turboprop engine
failed, for what ever reason and that caused a chain of
events which led to the wing spar being softened by the
fire, which caused it to fail.

You'll find a lot of corrosion on land planes parked around
any big city due to air pollution, acid rain and car and
factory exhausts fumes get everywhere.


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"Stubby" wrote in
message ...
| tscottme wrote:
| "vincent p. norris" wrote in message
| ...
|
| Hey did you know that according to MSNBC the Mallard is
a "hydroplane".
|
| All
|
| the years I dealt with them I thought they were
seaplanes.
|
| They've been called that since the days of Glenn
Curtiss.
|
| So you see, you don't know everything, either. Perhaps
you shouldn't
| be judging Mary S. ((:-))
|
| vince norris
|
|
| Did I "credit" Shiavo with the hydroplane comment? None
of us that worked
| on or around them, including the Chalks employees I knew
ever once called
| any of the aircraft a hydroplane. Maybe the accident
aircraft hit an air
| pocket?
|
| Mary made a couple of humdingers during her commentary
on TV today, as she
| usually does. Did you know the aircraft, contrary to
FAA records and the
| data plates I saw with my own eyes, couldn't have been
of mid 1940's origin.
| Mary informs us that seawater is far too corrosive to
see such an aged
| aircraft survive to the present. Mary wrote a book so
she knows better than
| the aircraft owners and maintenance personnel what she
is talking about,
| just ask her.
|
| My ASES instructor said to don't even think about
sal****er near his
| plane. He said no matter how thoroughly you wash it off,
it will still
| corrode.