NTSB points to nose damage in Kauai craft's hard landing

Such sport aircraft is being misused for tours, the report says

By Michael Tsai

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 19, 2012

~~<p>A National Transportation Safety Board report regarding the Dec. 22, 2010, hard landing of a special light sport aircraft on Kauai once again raises questions regarding the legal gray area within which operators have been offering sightseeing tours under the guise of flight instruction.</p>
<p>Neither the pilot nor passenger in the Apollo Delta Jet AS-III aircraft was injured in the incident, one of several over a 14-month span involving so-called weight-shift control aircraft. Six people were killed in three separate weight-shift control aircraft crashes in Hawaii during that span.</p>
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A National Transportation Safety Board report regarding the Dec. 22, 2010, hard landing of a special light sport aircraft on Kauai once again raises questions regarding the legal gray area within which operators have been offering sightseeing tours under the guise of flight instruction.

Neither the pilot nor passenger in the Apollo Delta Jet AS-III aircraft was injured in the incident, one of several over a 14-month span involving so-called weight-shift control aircraft. Six people were killed in three separate weight-shift control aircraft crashes in Hawaii during that span. Login for more...