On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 5:22:41 PM UTC-7,
wdb...@gmail.com wrote:
Just stumbled across this years later. I was there. Accident was a Brake lock up while taxiing and was not in main runway. To prevent going off in ditch he was hitting left pedal. Plane slowly lifted and went over as it went off taxiway. Plenty of us
where there but the plane was too heavy to lift on its back. By the time a forklift made it from other side of airport (20 minutes) it was too late. Charlie had suffocated with his head pushed forward fun into chest cutting off airway. The vertical stab
sunk into sand putting canopy into ground.
Sad day and I think of it often (how I stumbled across this today). Every time I see a tail dragger low wing I look for a roll cage. If not present - I’m not in. Freak accident of a simple brake lock up had fatal results.
Most of the musangs and sea furys have been modified with a second seat-eliminating the roll over structure
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