Modifications may have killed pilot
PA Wellington An investigation has found that a homebuilt aircraft was not completed in accordance with Civil Aviation-ap-proved plans and crashed soon after take-off, killing the pilot. The Hawke's Bay pilot, Stanley George Andrews, aged 48. was returning from a farm near Waipukurau to Napier on March 25. 1979, when the Taylor Titch aircraft he had built five years earlier crashed off the end of the airstrip. An office of air accidents
investigation has found that unauthorised modifications were made to the aircraft before the accident. They included lightening the pilot’s seat, positioned above the aircraft’s control system pivot point. Mr Andrew’s weight bore on the weakened seat during take-off, which may have caused the pivot point to separate, depriving the aircraft of elevator and aileron control, and thus causing the aircraft to stall and spin to a crash, the accident report said.
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