Harvard/T-6 losing tail?

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Ollie
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Harvard/T-6 losing tail?

Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:24 am

Hi!

While I was in Europe, I heard something about a T-6 losing its tail.

Does anyone know anything about it?

Cheers,

Ollie
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Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:46 am

News to me! I am guessing that something was misunderstood along the line.

So are you back in Canuck land?

Mike
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Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:50 am

The only recent Harvard IIb crash I know of was OY-IIB that crashed in Denmark on 18th June, killing both pilot & passenger. :cry:



http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/articl ... eID=259997


Martin :(
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:53 am

Certainly nothing in recent years in the UK
Ollie
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:13 am

Strange then... I heard it from two different people, on both sides of the Atlantic!

:roll:

Yeap Mike, I'm back! 8)
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:34 am

Any idea what country it was supposed to have happened in? Or how recently?
Ollie
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:36 am

It supposedly happened around the 18-19th of June, no idea of the country though.

I'm really puzzled here!

:?
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:55 am

Ollie wrote:It supposedly happened around the 18-19th of June, no idea of the country though.

Which ties in with the date of the Danish crash. However, the picture in the link that Martin posted clearly shows the tail still attached after the accident.
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:29 am

Yes, hence the puzzlingness of the whole thing!

:? :?
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:42 am

The mix up could be this; June 24 at Dyess AFB in Texas a Harvard MKIV chewed part of the tail off one of Trojan Phlyers T-28B's on a taxiway after landing. It seems the Harvard driver was distracted trying to reset his ELT which he thought had gone off. :oops:
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Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:53 pm

No, it was before June 24th...

Hmmm....

Maybe a false alarm!!

:shock:
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?????

Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:37 pm

It seems the Harvard driver was distracted trying to reset his ELT which he thought had gone off.

You got to be kidding. What part of fly the airplane and screw the minor stuff until you're parked and stopped did this pilot not understand. It's always been beaten into me that the landing (or what ever else) isn't finished till the airplane shutdown and you're sitting in the shade having a tall dark cold one.
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