REFLECTOR: Accident at Venice Airport FL.

[Chuck Jensen]

Glad to hear you're fine...fiberglass fixes!  400' is certainly marginally-low but you were probably smart to not mess with the gear and find out your needed 410'.  Any guesses on the reason for loosing fuel pressure?  Again, glad to hear your log book will have an equal number of TOs and LDGs.
 
Chuck
 
 
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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On Behalf Of Burt Kellerman
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:59 AM
To: Reflector
Subject: REFLECTOR: Accident at Venice Airport FL.



I just thought I give you all a heads-up, on my fuel starvation accident yesterday.

About 9:30 AM at the Venice Fl airport, I lost fuel pressure and the engine quit

after take-off. At about 400 ft it just sputtered and stopped. I made a 180, and 

was lucky to land gear-up on the grass runway over-run.  No injuries except my ego.

Unfortunately the bird skidded tail first into a chain-link fence.  The wings are 

in bad shape but the rest of the plane looks O.K. ???   I know we should not 

make a turn that close to the ground, but the other options were water.

Just another kudu for the incredible gliding ability of Velocity aircraft !!

 

Burt Kellerman     N27BK  173RG

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