on final just before landing, looking to the right. This is the track we’ll arrive from with the jeep I suppose.
view walking down the cow path.
the Masai watchmen had started to collect parts, here is the nose intakes, the ‘nostrils’…
the new front without the engine,
engine which lied a few feet apart, still holding by a cable or pipe or 2. Funny enough, once cleaning of those crushed parts (exhaust pipes, carter sump, baffles, air filter…the engine might still be worth over 10.000$ once sent and rechecked by Continental. The block looks fine so another little gamble if we salvage it.
the wing got partially separated from the cabin. The gap at the wing root is about 50 cm which means a serious compression happened on the cabin. And still, no serious injuries to report, everybody walked out.
the tail section, nearly loose. 2 fingers and no effort are enough to make the whole thing move.
The vertical fin is out of use, no doubt but the rudder looks ok!? A 30m long backflip, landing on that rudder and fin. The back fuselage took most of the hit instead. Special design? We’ll also have a serious look at the elevators.
within 2 hours, we got most of the instruments and beacons. These things go from a few hundreds $ to nearly 10.000 (in this airplane that is, it could be worse depending on the options…) so it will be worth having them checked and approved.
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