Hmm....forced landing on 23rd and departs paddock on 24th.
Chances of getting anything fixed day before xmas=0
Chances of getting some tins of avgas= excellent.
I am gonna suggest fuel contaminated...with air.
Now far be it from me to cast the first stone if that is the case...when I ran a tank dry 15 years back or so in a C185 I hit a power pole support cable at 50 agl while landing on a road in Sunday afternoon traffic and still pulled off a decent landing...although quite how escapes me...the DCA investigation was carried out at the Moresby Dero Club bar an hour or so later where boss of DCA handed me a beer and said "Chuck, promise me you won't do that again" and the boss of ATSB just said, smiling over his white wine, "Nice bit of flying...you fecking IDIOT"
So I'll just say "Nice bit of flying"
