jmaynard
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
Posts: 394
Location: Fairmont, MN (FRM)
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 Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:29 am Post subject: Report no. 2 from Sun n Fun - The Heintz clan reactions to |
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:42:23PM -0400, Ronald Steele wrote:
| Quote: | I want this problem fixed as bad as anyone else.
I also think this report is a sloppy, poorly reasoned waste of tax dollars.
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I think there are only a few people with their heads firmly planted...in the
sand that don't think there's a problem here somewhere. With that said, I'm
coming around to the idea that the NTSB's recommendation bears only passing
resemblance to reality.
I agree that the NTSB's accident investigators and scientists are the class
of the world. However, I wasn't aware that the Board itself was composed of
three political appointees. They didn't reach their conclusion in a vacuum,
but they may not haveunderstood all of the words in their agency's accident
reports, either. Unless you know what flutter is and how it happens, the
statement "no oscillatory overloading of control surfaces was present" may
not mean anything to you.
I continue to believe there's some fire under all of the smoke. It's the
NTSB's job to Do Something when a pattern of crashes appears. They Did
Something. Whether it's the right Something will be more apparent when the
Heintz' report is done.
Lots of folks have seized on aileron flutter as the cause. Something has to
explain the fact that N158MD's left aileron departed the aircraft before
anything else. If not flutter, what? Facts are inconvenient things, some
times.
Until the naysayers can explain why N158MD fell out of the sky - and no,
it's not builder error on a factory aircraft, and it's not pilot error
(would a 79-year-old man who's taking his wife on her first flight in the
new airplane wring it out? No!), so that leaves only other, less easily
digested explanations.
Until we find those explanations, there will still be a cloud over the type
- and with justification.
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Jay Maynard, K5ZC, PP-ASEL, AGI http://www.conmicro.com
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
Fairmont, MN (KFRM) (Yes, that's me!)
AMD Zodiac CH601XLi N55ZC http://www.tronguy.net/N55ZC.shtml
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