So here you go. One of the below was a guy, Joe Grimes was a pilot/mechanic/Instructor that I've visited with since a kid when going through Oklahoma.
He was an above average pilot but was giving a Bi-Annual Flight review in a crap airplane.
I hope all of you so keen on taking a ride in a composite cracker box reads the article--the fiberglass burned them to a crisp and melted on them.
The Cirrus is racking up a pretty bad accident record. The thought is that they spun in because the airplane hit inverted from the base-final turn.
To me this is both criminal and ironic. The Cirrus would not meet spin certification thus the FAA allowed them to subsitute the requirement with a ballisitic parachute.
We live in an age of marketing and this defieciency was spun to be a safety enhancement---which it isn't---it is a patch they were allowed to use for a poor design.
So however they ended up in the spin they were clearly in the dead zone of the Cirrus; an airplane incapable of recovering from a spin and to low for ballistic chute deployment.
He was an above average pilot but was giving a Bi-Annual Flight review in a crap airplane.
I hope all of you so keen on taking a ride in a composite cracker box reads the article--the fiberglass burned them to a crisp and melted on them.
The Cirrus is racking up a pretty bad accident record. The thought is that they spun in because the airplane hit inverted from the base-final turn.
To me this is both criminal and ironic. The Cirrus would not meet spin certification thus the FAA allowed them to subsitute the requirement with a ballisitic parachute.
We live in an age of marketing and this defieciency was spun to be a safety enhancement---which it isn't---it is a patch they were allowed to use for a poor design.
So however they ended up in the spin they were clearly in the dead zone of the Cirrus; an airplane incapable of recovering from a spin and to low for ballistic chute deployment.
News Article
February 7, 2008
Two die in fiery plane crash
Southwest McClain County site of accident
Susie Williams-Allen (405) 527-2126
Purcell, OK -- Two men lost their lives in a fiery plane crash in southwestern McClain County Saturday.
Dead are William Paul Jackson, 53, of Lindsay, and Joe Kenneth Grimes, 52, of Maysville.
The crash occurred in an isolated area north of Lindsay Municipal Airport, about one-quarter mile into McClain County, west of state Highway 59B around 5:30 p.m.
For an unknown reason, the 2006 Cirrus SR22, a fixed-wing, single-engine, propeller driven aircraft, lost altitude after taking off from Lindsay Municipal Airport.
On impact, the plane burst into flames. The trooper’s report said Grimes was ejected approximately 25 feet from the impact site.
The National Transportation Safety Board was on the scene Sunday to investigate the crash.
Jackson, a Lindsay veterinarian, was performing his biannual flight review, reports said. Grimes, a licensed pilot, was a flight instructor.
The men are both well known in the Lindsay and Maysville areas. Jackson has served on the Lindsay School Board for 13 years and was currently running for reelection.
Grimes was a farmer and rancher in the Hughes community, west of Maysville. He had a private airstrip on his property.
Jackson’s plane, bearing tail number N824BJ, was registered September 2006 in Jackson’s name at a Lindsay address. It was certified airworthy by the Federal Aviation Administration.
February 7, 2008
Two die in fiery plane crash
Southwest McClain County site of accident
Susie Williams-Allen (405) 527-2126
Purcell, OK -- Two men lost their lives in a fiery plane crash in southwestern McClain County Saturday.
Dead are William Paul Jackson, 53, of Lindsay, and Joe Kenneth Grimes, 52, of Maysville.
The crash occurred in an isolated area north of Lindsay Municipal Airport, about one-quarter mile into McClain County, west of state Highway 59B around 5:30 p.m.
For an unknown reason, the 2006 Cirrus SR22, a fixed-wing, single-engine, propeller driven aircraft, lost altitude after taking off from Lindsay Municipal Airport.
On impact, the plane burst into flames. The trooper’s report said Grimes was ejected approximately 25 feet from the impact site.
The National Transportation Safety Board was on the scene Sunday to investigate the crash.
Jackson, a Lindsay veterinarian, was performing his biannual flight review, reports said. Grimes, a licensed pilot, was a flight instructor.
The men are both well known in the Lindsay and Maysville areas. Jackson has served on the Lindsay School Board for 13 years and was currently running for reelection.
Grimes was a farmer and rancher in the Hughes community, west of Maysville. He had a private airstrip on his property.
Jackson’s plane, bearing tail number N824BJ, was registered September 2006 in Jackson’s name at a Lindsay address. It was certified airworthy by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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