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Top US Ultralight Instructor Killed In Crash  
User currently offlineL-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1937 times:

http://www.adn.com/front/story/3240175p-3270036c.html

Apparently Mike Jacober and a student went in flying a trike style ultralight on the Knik mudflats today. Jacober was one of the to US ultralight instructors and operated Arctic Sparrow Inc out of the Birchwood airport.

The aircraft burned on impact and there are reports on other news sources here in town that some of the wreakage was spoted 75 yards away, which may be indictative of an in-flight breakup.



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User currently offlineJhooper From United States of America, joined Dec 2001, 6195 posts, RR: 13
Reply 1, posted (9 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1905 times:

This is indeed sad. I've never flown in an ultralight, and I have no plans to.


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User currently offlineL-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62
Reply 2, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 1816 times:

It turns out the student was from the same town I was from. I don't know him but I went to school with a fellow with the same family name, so I wonder if he is related

This is sad because down in Homer about two weeks another ultralight pilot was killed when his machine broke up imediately after takeoff. He had been on his first solo flight.

So two guys killed in ultralight crashes in two weeks from the same town with about 10K people in it.

Very sad  Sad


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