2 Mooneys down on eclipse day

[cliffy]

http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:96:18469596854494::::P96_ENTRY_DATE,P96_MAKE_NAME,P96_FATAL_FLG:21-AUG-17,MOONEY

[neilpilot]

Not good, but I don't know if I'd describe a nose gear collapse as a "Mooney down".  Unless "down" means out of service, in which case my Mooney was also down on eclipse day.  Down for it's annual.

[cliffy]

If it walks like a duck and smells like a duck it must be a duck

Again, we're wreckin' them faster than they make'm

[gsengle]

If it walks like a duck and smells like a duck it must be a duck
Again, we're wreckin' them faster than they make'm

Um didn't sound totaled either


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[cliffy]

"we're wreckin' "  Didn't sat "destroying" them. But we sure keep wreckin' them. 

Nose gear maybe $20K by the time done. 

[gsengle]

"we're wreckin' "  Didn't sat "destroying" them. But we sure keep wreckin' them. 
Nose gear maybe $20K by the time done. 

Yep and it will be fixed...


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[peevee]

I'm honestly shocked there wasn't a midair. Glad, but surprised.

[kortopates]

Actually both of these landing incidents where before eclipse day.


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[bradp]

Well if they keep making them at 6/year or whatnot, the attrition rate will certainly outpace the production rate.  So long as no souls injured, there's a necessity to have some proportion salvage planes available for parts when the median fleet age is something like 40 years.   

[rbridges]

17 hours ago, cliffy said:

"we're wreckin' "  Didn't sat "destroying" them. But we sure keep wreckin' them. 

Nose gear maybe $20K by the time done. 

but couldn't that have led to a prop strike?  or does your 20k include IRAN?

[Bartman]

On 8/23/2017 at 5:45 PM, peevee said:

I'm honestly shocked there wasn't a midair. Glad, but surprised.

Not sure if the exact count but seemed like hundreds of Aircraft were at KSRB and within minutes after totality came and went people began bugging out.  Planes were backed up nearly the whole length of the taxiway so we waited. On the way home I saw more enroute cruising aircraft in the air than ever before, and then suddenly started getting traffic alerts on ForeFlight. One of them was a ghost image of my own plane and that usually doesn't bother me, but this time it really got my attention. 

[TTaylor]

Not sure if I would be taking a Mooney into Big Creek, Idaho.  3500 feet of rough turf at 5700 feet elevation.  

Elevation 5743 ft

Dimensions: 3550 x 110 ft. / 1082 x 34 m

Surface: turf, in fair condition

 

[peevee]

5 hours ago, TTaylor said:

Not sure if I would be taking a Mooney into Big Creek, Idaho.  3500 feet of rough turf at 5700 feet elevation.  

Elevation 5743 ft

Dimensions: 3550 x 110 ft. / 1082 x 34 m

Surface: turf, in fair condition

 

If it was paved I'd have no problem with it.

[steingar]

As they get less common they will grow in value.  Supply, demand, and all that.