Legacy Crash / Montana / Updates?

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From: <marv [at] lancair.net>
Subject: Re: Legacy Crash / Montana / Updates?
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:17:25 -0400
To: <lml>
Posted for Erik Larson <asw20747 [at] aol.com>:

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On July 28th, 2014 a Legacy (N29MM) crashed in Montana on the way to OSH.
> The pilot and sole occupant, Milon Meyer, was killed.
> There
was only one brief mention of it on the LML, and then that post
>seemingly disappeared?
> 
[
It was a strange day for me.... somehow I managed to erase about half a dozen posts from the archive, something I've never done before in
all the years of running the LML... I'm sorry, but that post and several others are lost and I'm not sure if I can bring them back.
 <marv>
]

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> Preliminary results seem to indicate oil on the canopy and then
engine
>failure.
>
>
> Does anyone have any updated information they would care to share?
>
>
> It
seems all to often, these accidents come and go and we never hear any
>quantifiable hard facts about the cause.  Just one case in
point,
> the 2009 crash of a Legacy in Watsonville was attributed to a "broken oil
>return line from the oil separator" but nothing
definitive as to what we
>could do or check to prevent this from happening again. Where was the oil
>return line ported to? Somewhere
other than a valve cover?
>
>
> My sincere condolences to the family of Milon Meyer..... I hope we can learn
>from this
tragedy.
>
>
> The Kathryn Report: Lancair Legacy, N29MM: Fatal accident