Tue, Mar 25, 2003
According to a company spokesman, during a
customer test taxi, the little Liberty XL-2 prototype went into the
mud alongside the runway at its new home airport in Melbourne (FL),
on Sunday. There was a prop strike in the soft earth alongside the
tarmac, and, once again, the Sensenich wood prop did its job,
sacrificing itself to save the IO-240F. [This was the third prop on
that unfortunate engine. The first was chewed up in a terrible
rainstorm last Summer; the second bit the curb at the AOPA Parade
of Planes last Fall --ed.]
The two aboard, the customer-pilot and airplane designer Ivan
Shaw, were uninjured, as the customer, either unfamiliar with the
plane's finger-operated brakes (which are turning out to be more
problematic than the manufacturer once asserted) or experiencing
some sort of brake failure, managed to get the bird into the ditch.
The plane should be repaired shortly.
** Report created 3/24/2003 Record 6
**
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 203XL
Make/Model: EXP Description: LIBERTY
XL-2
Date: 03/23/2003 Time: 1616
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury:
None Mid Air: N Missing:
N
Damage: Minor
LOCATION
City: MELBOURNE State: FL Country:
US
DESCRIPTION
ACFT TAXIED INTO A DITCH UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES,
MELBOURNE, FL
INJURY DATA Total Fatal:
0
# Crew: 0 Fat:
0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk: Y
# Pass: 0 Fat:
0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk: Y
# Grnd:
Fat: 0 Ser:
0 Min:
0 Unk:
WEATHER: UNK
OTHER DATA
Activity: Unknown Phase:
Taxi Operation: General
Aviation
Departed:
UNK
Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination:
UNK
Flt Plan: UNK
Wx Briefing: U
Last Radio Cont: UNK
Last Clearance: UNK
FAA FSDO: ORLANDO, FL
(SO15)
Entry date: 03/24/2003
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