REFLECTOR: Accident at Venice Airport FL.

[Brett Ferrell]

Ditto, I'm very glad you're OK, and it sounds like you did a nice job to get it
onto grass under those conditions.

Not to be insensitive, but I'm always interested in pictures after an incident
to reinforce to myself how strong these things really are, so if you wouldn't
mind sharing, I know I'd really appreciate your posting a couple on tvbf.org
(if you have any).

Brett

Quoting Chuck Jensen <cjensen at dts9000.com>:

> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
>