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Hard to imagine that the cargo shifted far enough back to cause a problem in
cruise flight. Hard to imagine that a cargo operation would overlook something like fastening down the cargo. Mike MU-2 "mike regish" wrote in message news:Sskcc.192973$Cb.1733899@attbi_s51... I live near Pittsfield. The article I saw mentioned that he was hauling screws, I think. I was thinking that possibly some of the load shifted in flight and went aft. One witness said he looked like he was coming down backwards. Another said he was in a flat spin. Figure screws are a pretty dense cargo. If they somehow shifted back, do you think it could make him tail heavy enough to get him in trouble even at cruise speed? He had fuel as the wreckage was burning. Said last contact was at 17K feet and radar showed him losing 12k feet in 60 seconds. mike regish "Big John" wrote in message ... Pete MU2 had a relatively limited production run not like the 150/152 which has been built for ever and in the thousands. MU2 is a relatively high performance turbo prop and not normally seen as plane of the average GA pilot. You will find them in commercial service of some kind. Some general specs. 580 built (1963-1986) That's about 25 a year average during production life. About 500 on books in 2000. 300 mph normal cruise 7 passenger two pilot pressurized. (Some with big fuselage could carry 11 passengers) Listed on market today for about $300,000.+/- Accident in question, pilot had routine communication with ATC and 9 minutes later came out of clouds in flat spin and hit ground with no forward movement. There was some icing in clouds but may or may not have been at his cruising altitude? Pitot and Stall heat were on. Rest of 'heat' switches were off. All of airframe was at crash site. I posted as a jab at Mike (MU2) who stands up for the bird even with these 'strange' type of accidents. Flying one, he may have some feed back on this accident? Hate to see these accidents both for crew and A/C ( Big John `````````````````````````````````````````````````` `````````````````````````` ```````````````````` On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:26:33 -0800, "Peter Duniho" wrote: "Big John" wrote in message .. . [...] As I said prior, if you keep breaking they will be all gone before long. What do you fly? Is it still in production? If not, how is it not true for that type of aircraft that "if you keep breaking they will be all gone before long"? Even the Cessna 152 has a finite number in the fleet, and they continue to be involved in accidents now and then. Eventually they will all be gone too. What's your point? How is the MU2 any different from any other aircraft not still in production? Pete |
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