Tag: Experimental Aircraft Safety
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On This Day in 1997: John Denver Dies in a Tragic Plane Crash at 53 – A Hidden Fuel-System Problem and a Poorly Placed Control Contributed to the Singer’s Fatal Final Flight
On October 12, 1997, legendary singer-songwriter John Denver, best known for hits such as “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and “Rocky Mountain High,” died when his experimental aircraft crashed into Monterey Bay, California. He was 53 years old. Denver was piloting a single-engine Rutan Long-EZ aircraft that he had purchased just two weeks earlier. Witnesses…
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