Epic E1000 Crashes in Germany

In London and this is making a big splash on the BBC...a previous gear up in 2015 and the passengers killed have them speculating
 
Warlock said:
In London and this is making a big splash on the BBC...a previous gear up in 2015 and the passengers killed have them speculating
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The Epic is known for having an unreliable gear system. I'm interested to see if they find out what happened...
 
About an hour from where I am. To make it worse, a police car going to the scene of the airplane crash ended up colliding with another car and killed 2 people.
 
The Epic is on its way to FAA certification (and, um, has been, for a number of years. I'm in the cert biz, I know how it goes.) I believe that the amateur-built models have a frightening stall speed.
BTW, this was reported as a "private jet" in some reports, never mind the remnants of the propeller in some of the pictures.
 
ktup-flyer said:
The Epic is known for having an unreliable gear system. I'm interested to see if they find out what happened...
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Interesting you mention that. I was listening to KCMA on Live ATC a couple years ago and an Epic declared an emergency due to a cocked-over nose wheel. On touchdown it straightened itself out.
 
The relatively small debris field would indicate that it came down at a high angle. It will be interesting to see what the cause was.
 
cmsuav8r said:
that it came down at a high angle.
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There are a number of witnesses. Per German forum, came in high and fast for a short, challenging approach at a small airport. Cut the corners off his missed approach path and got behind the aircraft. Stalled, drug a wing tip, and hit inverted. Reportedly the lady onboard was wealthy Russian with her father. Her husband owns Epic.
 
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