2006 – N289AE – Antontio Espinal – Velocity XL/RG – Millbrook, NY – 0

2006 – N289AE – Antontio Espinal – Velocity XL/RG – Millbrook, NY – 0

  Apparently the jet was brought to idle on final, and once the pilot realized he was below the glideslope, could not get the engine to spool quickly enough to make the runway Antonio mentioned that he traded off precious air speed in order to climb and clear trees on the approach. Once clear of […]

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2005 – N220EZ – David Hanson – Vari EZ – Buffalo, NY – 0

2005 – N220EZ – David Hanson – Vari EZ – Buffalo, NY – 0

David Hanson crashed the Varieze that he built for his brother after dirt contamination in both fuel strakes starved the engine and forced an off-field landing. David received minor cuts after the canopy shattered on roll-over. Read his account below. | FAA | NTSB initial | NTSB factual | NTSB probable cause | News | Last flight of N220EZ […]

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1997 – N280DM – Daniel Martin – Velocity SE/RG – Mountauk, NY – 0

The pilot flew a 15 minute local flight with a passenger in his homebuilt airplane, and returned to land at the departure airport. He entered a left downwind for runway 24, lowered the landing gear, and extended the speed brakes when he turned final. About 50 feet above the ground when he began to ’round […]

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