KR> N886MJ engine failed

2019-06-05 Thread Oscar Zuniga via KRnet
As Mark and others like to say, "your mileage may vary" as far as the FAA, NTSB, or other agency's response to a flying accident or incident goes. My response would be "it depends". My Pietenpol experienced carb ice and the carb heat was too wimpy to deal with it, so the pilot (not me) put it

Re: KR> N886MJ engine failed

2019-06-04 Thread Craig Williams via KRnet
I was too. As soon as I got home from the hospital I got on the Web and googled how to report an accident. Turns out there is a link on the NTSB page. Basically here is what you do. Contact the NTSB's 24-hour Response Operations Center (ROC) at 844-373-9922 to file a report. A phone call is

Re: KR> N886MJ engine failed

2019-06-04 Thread Kayak via KRnet
I'm curious about this process. Does FAA have the airplane? How does that work? What happens, and when after an off field landing with damage like this? Did you call it into them right away? Who do you call, the FSDO? On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:35 PM Randy Smith via KRnet wrote: > I will be

Re: KR> N886MJ engine failed

2019-06-03 Thread Craig Williams via KRnet
The FAA was here on Friday. We did remove the RH head and #1 cylinder. I plan to document everything once the FAA and the NTSB are done with needing access to the engine. I assume they are done but waiting an email from either NTSB or FSDO. I want to get all the facts and lessons learned and

Re: KR> N886MJ engine failed

2019-06-03 Thread Randy Smith via KRnet
I will be surprised if the FAA does anything with the engine. I have been down a few times with VW engines and all they said was it is an Experimental and unless someone was seriously injured they really did not care to even look at it. On Monday, June 3, 2019, 9:37:45 AM CDT, Patrick via K

Re: KR> N886MJ engine failed

2019-06-03 Thread Patrick via KRnet
Craig, Any results from the FAA teardown of the engine? Patrick On 2019-05-26 23:09, Craig Williams via KRnet wrote: Too early to tell why the engine failed but the aircraft did not fair well in the off airport landing. Details to follow. Training kicked in at just the right moment. Craig

KR> N886MJ engine failed

2019-05-26 Thread Craig Williams via KRnet
Too early to tell why the engine failed but the aircraft did not fair well in the off airport landing. Details to follow. Training kicked in at just the right moment. Craig ___ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krn