To: hattend; GoldCountryRedneck
Something similar happened to a friend of mine flying an L39.
I believe it was found that a bird went through the canopy and the pilot "lost it".
It is definitely incapacitation.
35 posted on
07/28/2005 9:45:08 AM PDT by
Dashing Dasher
(On this day in 1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State.)
To: hattend; Dashing Dasher
We'll have to wait for the final NTSB report a year or so ...."
Betting the Warbird fraternity will have a NTSB 'source' that'll slip the word under the table before then.
Ya' know ... tragic that it is, having your ticket punched while at the controls of a P-51 is paradoxially living; beats a year of cancer suffering or many other more morose ways to buy that farm.
I personally celebrate the joy folks like that felt just before ....
...but that's JMO.
36 posted on
07/28/2005 10:23:59 AM PDT by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Forget about Lift, Weight, Drag, and Thrust. Airplanes fly on MONEY" - Author unknown)
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