Tri-Q, registration N8054Y, impacted the terrain shortly after takeoff from Gila Bend Municipal Airport (E63), Maricopa County, Arizona,. June 15 2021
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/one-dead-in-plane-crash-near-gila-bend-municipal-airport-arizona-plane-crash-june-15-2021/75-3f94e417-4c99-4cc8-94be-78f1550ec45a
https://cdn.aviation-safety.net/wikibase/264043
On Jun 17, 2021, at 21:40, Bill Higdon via groups.io <willard561@...> wrote:
A private experimentally built Quickie Q2 Tri-Q, registration N8054Y, impacted the terrain shortly after takeoff from Gila Bend Municipal Airport (E63), Maricopa County, Arizona.The airplane was destroyed by the ensuing post crash fire and one of the two occupants onboard was fatally injured. The second occupant onboard was seriously injured.The Q2 is a tandem wing design, having one forward wing (canard) and one rear wing (instead of the more usual main wing and horizontal stabilizer). The elevators are fitted to the forward wing so that all pitch control comes from the forward wing, similar to the canard configuration. The Quickie Q2 variant is a two-seat aircraft with a 64-horsepower (48 kW) Volkswagen air-cooled engine and could be constructed as a Tri-Q with tricycle rather than conventional landing gear.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/one-dead-in-plane-crash-near-gila-bend-municipal-airport-arizona-plane-crash-june-15-2021/75-3f94e417-4c99-4cc8-94be-78f1550ec45a
https://cdn.aviation-safety.net/wikibase/264043
This plane was purchased by Peter Stein from Texas. He was listed as the passenger on the accident report, and he is in critical condition in hospital in the Phoenix area. The pilot died in the crash, I did not recognize the name. Peter is the same person who flew with Bruce in Enid last December to get him familiar with the Tri-Q.
The plane departed San Diego the day before the accident and flew to a private airport, 29AZ, about 10 miles west of the accident airport E63 at Gila Bend, just SW of Phoenix. My guess is that he flew from the private airport, which has no fuel, via a short hop to the nearby Gila Bend public airport earlier in the morning to get fuel and then was departing, when the accident occurred.
I suspect the two men were ferrying the plane back to Texas. It was VERY hot in the valley of the sun yesterday, and the crash was just after takeoff, so I would suspect something like a vapor lock, since the engine was probably hot when they were fueling.
Based on the news helicopter photos, the wreckage was just off and to the right of the runway centerline, just outside the airport boundary fence. May have even clipped the fence.
All speculation on my part, except for the timeline which I checked online.
Jay
From: main@Q-List.groups.io <main@Q-List.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill Higdon via groups.io
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 8:12 AM
To: main@Q-List.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Tri-Q, registration N8054Y, impacted the terrain shortly after takeoff from Gila Bend Municipal Airport (E63), Maricopa County, Arizona,. June 15 2021
Here's the link to the FAA report not a lot there right now https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N8054Y
On Jun 18, 2021, at 11:14, Jay Scheevel <jay@...> wrote:
This plane was purchased by Peter Stein from Texas. He was listed as the passenger on the accident report, and he is in critical condition in hospital in the Phoenix area. The pilot died in the crash, I did not recognize the name. Peter is the same person who flew with Bruce in Enid last December to get him familiar with the Tri-Q.
The plane departed San Diego the day before the accident and flew to a private airport, 29AZ, about 10 miles west of the accident airport E63 at Gila Bend, just SW of Phoenix. My guess is that he flew from the private airport, which has no fuel, via a short hop to the nearby Gila Bend public airport earlier in the morning to get fuel and then was departing, when the accident occurred.
I suspect the two men were ferrying the plane back to Texas. It was VERY hot in the valley of the sun yesterday, and the crash was just after takeoff, so I would suspect something like a vapor lock, since the engine was probably hot when they were fueling.
Based on the news helicopter photos, the wreckage was just off and to the right of the runway centerline, just outside the airport boundary fence. May have even clipped the fence.
All speculation on my part, except for the timeline which I checked online.
Jay
From: main@Q-List.groups.io <main@Q-List.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill Higdon via groups.io
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 8:12 AM
To: main@Q-List.groups.io
Subject: Re: [Q-List] Tri-Q, registration N8054Y, impacted the terrain shortly after takeoff from Gila Bend Municipal Airport (E63), Maricopa County, Arizona,. June 15 2021
Here's the link to the FAA report not a lot there right now https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=N8054Y