Final Report, Sonex N315AL
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:58 pm
by mike.smith
The NTSB has issued their final report on the fatal crash of my friend Al Lavender’s Sonex in 2017.
https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Repor … l&IType=FA
Supporting information:
https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hitl … 6F847FB09C
Attention to detail. Fly the airplane no matter what. Let’s be careful out there.
Re: Final Report, Sonex N315AL
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 7:42 pm
by Rynoth
Thank you for linking the report, I am sorry for your loss.
For what it’s worth, I recommend religious use of torque seal (visible paste that dries hard to indicate if a nut has moved) on all torqued parts including fuel/oil lines. Anytime final torque is made, apply a squirt of paste across the gap between the nut and the connector, and assume that any nut/connector without torque-seal has not been tightened yet. This even applies to routinely removed connections like oil lines for an oil change. Old hard paste is easy enough to chip off with a fingernail when a connector is removed, and fresh paste applied once reconnected.