Nearly 20 percent of all general aviation accidents are a result of mechanical failure. On April 27, 2002, a student pilot, his flight instructor, and one passenger were killed and another passenger was seriously injured when the engine in the student's Beech Sundowner failed over Oak Shores, California. Read what went wrong in this special report prepared by the AOPA Air Safety Foundation.

http://www.aopa.org/epilot/redir.cfm?adid=6760



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