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Archive Home > 2008 > February > 17 > Many Lancair crashes are due to lack of pilot training

Many Lancair crashes are due to lack of pilot training

Review of recent accidents points to problems with amateur pilots and high speeds, not the homebuilt planes themselves, Redmond-based company and experts say

By Peter Sachs / The Bulletin
February 17, 2008

REDMOND — It only takes Mike Newell’s Lancair Super ES about 30 seconds to fly from one end of Redmond Airport’s 7,000-foot Runway 10 to the other.

With the plane flying at 185 mph as he makes a circuit over the airport — with the Cascades, from Mount Hood....

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