Cirrus sued by Lidle's & Stanger's families

On 3/5/2007 3:05:54 PM, Ron Natalie wrote:

I think you're talking about the Overmyer crash. That was a VK-30 not
the SR20/22. The elevator jammed.

No, it was an SR20. You made me get off my lazy bum to look it up in the NTSB
database.

Here is the accident of which I was thinking. Back in 1999 a Cirrus test
pilot was killed when the aileron jammed:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...05X00274&key=1

Small quote from the report:

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of
this accident as follows:

the lack of sufficient aileron-to-wing gap clearance design.

--
Peter

Stupid pilots kill themselves every day and their families
just can't say, "the dumb **** screwed up" and they sue.
Since juries NEVER have an engineer or pilot [lawyers
exclude them in the selection process] you get bad awards.

The NTSB is not the final word, but when they point out a
real problem in design, it usually results in a design
change and an AD note.



"Peter R." wrote in message
...
| On 3/5/2007 3:05:54 PM, Ron Natalie wrote:
|
| I think you're talking about the Overmyer crash. That
was a VK-30 not
| the SR20/22. The elevator jammed.
|
| No, it was an SR20. You made me get off my lazy bum to
look it up in the NTSB
| database.
|
| Here is the accident of which I was thinking. Back in 1999
a Cirrus test
| pilot was killed when the aileron jammed:
|
|
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...05X00274&key=1
|
| Small quote from the report:
|
| The National Transportation Safety Board determines the
probable cause(s) of
| this accident as follows:
|
| the lack of sufficient aileron-to-wing gap clearance
design.
|
| --
| Peter

Since juries NEVER have an engineer or pilot [lawyers
exclude them in the selection process] you get bad awards.

So that explains why at 42, I have never been called for Jury duty! I
am both an engineer and a pilot...

deanwil wrote

So that explains why at 42, I have never been called for Jury duty! I
am both an engineer and a pilot...

Nah... You would be perfect for a malpractice case. g
--
Jim in NC