Hey everyone,
A couple weeks ago I was posting about my awesome first flight with my Kadet
LT-40. Now I'm posting about it's demise.
I'm not entirely sure what happened, Basically we were flying in winds
10-13mph. It wasn't impossible to fly although I had to keep on my toes. It
was going great until all of the sudden, while flying in the direction of
the wind, the plane very suddenly and very rapidly rolled right into an
inverted position. I quickly handed the controller to my instructor, he was
able to roll it back, but something was difinitley wrong. No matter what
he did it just wouldn't resume normal flight. The plane went down into the
marsh and after 45 minutes of searching it looked hopeless. I really wanted
to at least get my hardware back, and examine the remains to figure out why
it just dropped outta the sky.
The only thing I can think of is that the vert. stabilizer felt a little
loose. I didn't think for a second it would come off in flight, and since
I was flying WITH the wind when it broke, there wasn't much pressure on it
when the malfunction occured.
I can't think of anything else that could've gone wrong. Would the loss of
a vert. stabilizer cause the plane to roll very rapidly?
Confused,
-Nick
- posted
18 years ago