Crash report: Plane's wing folded up, hit canopy
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — A preliminary report on the investigation of the crash of a light plane last week near Albany says a witness saw one wing fold upward during a turn, and the wing apparently hit the canopy, shattering its glass.
The Albany Democrat-Herald reports there was an area of glass shards between the wing, found on Oregon 226, and the rest of the wreckage about 1,000 feet south.
The brief document from the National Transportation Safety Board didn't say why the wing detached from the plane.
Van McKenny, an aerospace engineer with the agency, said experts will examine the plane later this month. A final report may take a year.
Timothy Dean Carter, 46, of Portland and Jeff Earl Kropf, 45, of Halsey died in the crash.
The plane's manufacturer said it was built from its plans and heavily modified.
Heavily modified??? Oops, I think that it is probably not in one's best interest to modify a plane manufacturers plans!
Nothing good can be said of main spar failure.
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Although given enough power it is possible to land with only one wing:Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpwyU30g7rI
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RIP guys.
Ouch I did that with an RC plane once and it was not a pretty site went right into a very hard spin and left a 6" hole in the hard dirt were it hit. Not much you can do to survive that minus having a ballistic chute maybe.
 @FreedomRocks @FreedomRocks Are you still flying RC's? I don't know what your history with Mechanic is, since I am new here. But what I took away from that is if you don't care about gramatical errors, maybe you didn't tighten those structural wing parts either.   grin
 @Friar Tuck  @FreedomRocks grammatical errors.
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Also, there's no apostrophe in RC's because there's no possessive. The only time you use an apostrophe in the case of a plural is with a single letter, such as the Oakland A's or "I got straight C's in grammar."Â ;>Â
 @Friar Tuck  @FreedomRocks I am into RC helicopters now. I still do planes just not as much since the helicopters are more fun and a much bigger challenge.
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It's not that I don't care it's that writing on blogs is not my day job I just do it to pass time while waiting for my PC to do something when at work. So it is not worth the time and effort to fix the the speakos by DNS.
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There seem to be a lot of grammar police that must get a big feeling of superiority if they can point out someone's grammatical errors. The problem with it is these same people very rarely seem to be able to come up with an intellectual argument that's anywhere near as good as their grammatical one. Rather then show their superiority with a highly intellectual come back they try to diminish the other person making them look stupid. It's the oldest trick in the book for those who can't form a strong argument to support their side. Just look at the last election for thousands of examples of that.
@FreedomRocks Sight, not "site." Where, not "were." You don't mean "minus having." You mean "unless you have." You sure you passed the tests to fly planes?
 @Mechanic  @FreedomRocks Thank you and all the other idiot grammar police to keep pointing out to me the Dragon Naturally Speaking picks word based on how they sound not on how they are spelled or what they mean.
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Yes I had a 98% on my flight exam THANK YOU...
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Would you also like my SAT or GRE test scores?
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Maybe better yet see my GPA for my BSEE or my MSEE degrees you know those simple electrical engineering degrees where only 35% of those who try to get one are able to make it through the programs.
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Don't be an ass just because you don't like my politics. Quite using the default liberal tactic of personal attacks for a change. Try a comeback with something Intellectually meaningful. If you can...
 @FreedomRocks It's extremely rare in civil aircraft for a wing to come off in normal flight. Fewer than 5% of crashes, to be sure, since only about 8% of fatal crashes in small airplanes are mechanically or structurally related, iirc.
 @FreedomRocks (But it's a perfect situation for a ballistic chute.)