Don Aadland wrote:

The recent commentary regarding engine failures after takeoff brings
to mind the REAL purpose of an aircraft insurance company.  They pay
for airplanes that prudent pilots have cheerfully sacrificed while in
the process of saving their precious rears!   Energy absorbed due to
shearing of wings, etc, is energy that will not have to be disappated
in the body of the pilot and passengers.   Author William Kerschner
said it best, when committed to a forced landing, "hit something soft
and cheap!"   Goes along with the light twin airplane's 2nd engine
being a mechanical contrivance that flattens the glide path on the way
to the crash site!

Any problem that can be fixed with money is not a real problem.  Life
is something money cannot buy.
                                      Don A,  Arizona

Do I have to tell the insurance company I just put a new Continental
engine? They might cancel my insurance.

Paul Lamar
 
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