Originally Posted by
megan
Good friend flew his Baron into the side of a hill at night following take off at Port Lincoln, survivable crash if only he had the shoulder strap on. Found five hours after the crash, his body still warm, bled to death from head impacting instrument panel. If only he had worn the shoulder strap fitted.
In his biography, Major Vic Pedersen, flying Salvo padre early post war was returning to Darwin from SW in his AUSTER when he suffered an engine failure over heavily timbered country.
He mushed it in to the tree tops (stall 26 KN) and evacuated with minor facial injuries. Said he wouldn’t have been hurt at all if his seat belt had been done up.
i have full harness in mine.