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Pilot Details

Age: 43 Weight: 200 Gender: Highest rating held at the time of the incident: Pilot experience level:

Gear Details

Wing Brand: Model: paramania gofly Size: Paramotor Frame: F.B. Simonini with

Incident Details

October 16, 2012 Location of the incident: , Type of Incident:

As I was cruising at about 250 ft. my engine suddenly shut off. I made a safe landing nearest to the road that I could out of the corn field I was flying over. After getting my equipment home and tearing down the engine I found the problem was a seized crankshaft bearing on the prop side. Engine has around 110hrs on it.

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