Mark Steitle wrote:

Paul,
This plane, 69172, is a Cessna 152 that belongs to the University Flying Club. The forwarded message describes an inflight engine failure. I had a similar experience a few years back in their other plane, a C-150, and managed to land back at Austin's Robert Mueller on the three good cylinders (the 4th was flailing around under the cowl). It was a low-time "certified" engine.

Just a reminder as to why I chose a 20B for my project!

Mark

Date: 2/5/01 7:03 PM
From: Patrick Romano
        Some of you may or may not know that 69172 had a complete engine failure in-flight.  Thanks to the miraculous flying skill of Olivier, no
one was hurt.  The plane was  not damaged at all other than a completely
seized engine.  In the interim we are working on getting a fix to the
problem as fast as possible. We have already moved the plane to
lago-vista, and are currently figuring out solutions to this unfortunate
situation.  I say we buy a G-V.
    Also on another bad note N4SW is downed also.  We are working on
this and depending on how long it takes to get a part it should be fixed
by Wednesday.  If you have any questions feel free to email or call me.

Patrick

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