REFLECTOR: Accident at Venice Airport FL.

Jorge Bujanda jbujanda at dslextreme.com
Wed Jun 8 08:57:31 CDT 2005


I concur with others... as I always say, the important thing is you were 
able to weather such critical circumstances and come back home to plan 
the repairs.
Take care
Jorge



Brett Ferrell wrote:

>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
>>
>>
>>    
>>
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