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Accident Briefs—August 2025

Plane and Pilot

He said that as he approached the airport, the reported weather indicated the wind was aligned with the runway. The recorded weather at the airport where the accident occurred was from 020 degrees at 3 knots, about the time of the accident. The airplane received substantial damage to the right wing.

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Schrodinger's Weather

Photographic Logbook

I kept the vacation day scheduled because long range forecasts lead me to believe that I might be in store for a beautiful flying day and the Warrior had just successfully emerged from annual inspection. My plan: if the weather was as crummy as forecast, I would just go to work. I reached for an iPad to check weather.