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Old 9th Aug 2012, 11:04
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No relevance whatsoever the only relevance is below

Elevation: 6370 ft. / 1941.6 m (surveyed)

Bruce meadows is a dirt strip the accident time was 1530 so likely above standard temperature.
The aircraft was four up so probably heavy without knowing the fuel state.
It is a horrible state to be in full power (hope he leaned?) almost zero climb struggling to maintain airspeed and avoid increase AOA and drag.
His mistake other than taking off was not putting down earlier but hanging in there on a wing and a prayer till he was over trees
They were all very lucky as they could easily have all been killed
One saving grace and credit to him is that at least he kept it flying into the trees! In such a situation it is so easy to stall spin trying to cling onto altitude

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