Bad form Sammy!

I was also there...he was absolutely not trying to fly the plane as he knew it was mechanically unsound. This was not a new Lear jet, but an old, beaten-up, well used, often repaired model with a worn out engine and a leaky fuel system. He was just making a couple of taxi runs at your request when he hit a bump and one of the landing gear broke off causing the plane to go airborn and stall. In an effort to try and save the plane he gave it full throttle and attempted to level off but the engine didn't have the power needed, so the plane wobbled for a moment, dropped a wing and cartwheeled. End of story! It was an honest accident.

Furthermore, in good faith and because he felt badly even though he could not be faulted, he offered to give you a 50% break on the price of a plane that you had already agreed to purchase from him prior to the accident. I know the pilot well. I've flown with him for years. He's helped me out countless times. He is not the kind of guy you go out and slander on public forums.

Really Bad Form Sammy!

Anyway, from what I could tell when I examined the model afterwards, it's not a difficult repair job. It was obvious that at least one broken former, the LG block and parts of the wing had already been repaired before.


Den