If you find making light of a fellow POA member's crash to be dark and inappropriate, this thread is not for you. @Salty 's permission (though he said it was not needed) is here: https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/com...o-guy-makes-the-impossible-turn.135460/page-5
Facts that we know:
Salty was involved in an off airport landing. He and his wife are ok.
He was most likely flying in the Florida area.
@RyanB was a recent visitor. This probably plays an important point.
Salty flies a Mooney but is also known to try out other flying gadgets.
With what is known, I think it's pretty obvious what happened. He borrowed @eman1200 's Bomooney thinking it would be like a regular Mooney and zigged when he should have zagged. RyanB had told him about the plane the week before and apparently the information given was not accurate in how to fly it. Not to fear, Dan Gryder will have a video out soon.
Eyewitness accounts are sparse. One person reported Salty walking out from the wreckage with a fireball behind him like a Bruce Willis movie. Another said he rode a gator out of the swamp. We have reports of the plane being a high wing, a low wing, or no wing. No flight plan was filed. No parachute was pulled either. Disney World has reported that Tinkerbell has not shown up for work since the incident.
If any of you have any further information, you're encouraged to post it here so we can recreate the crash scene before the NTSB can screw it up.
Facts that we know:
Salty was involved in an off airport landing. He and his wife are ok.
He was most likely flying in the Florida area.
@RyanB was a recent visitor. This probably plays an important point.
Salty flies a Mooney but is also known to try out other flying gadgets.
With what is known, I think it's pretty obvious what happened. He borrowed @eman1200 's Bomooney thinking it would be like a regular Mooney and zigged when he should have zagged. RyanB had told him about the plane the week before and apparently the information given was not accurate in how to fly it. Not to fear, Dan Gryder will have a video out soon.
Eyewitness accounts are sparse. One person reported Salty walking out from the wreckage with a fireball behind him like a Bruce Willis movie. Another said he rode a gator out of the swamp. We have reports of the plane being a high wing, a low wing, or no wing. No flight plan was filed. No parachute was pulled either. Disney World has reported that Tinkerbell has not shown up for work since the incident.
If any of you have any further information, you're encouraged to post it here so we can recreate the crash scene before the NTSB can screw it up.
