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2008/07/08

Experimental Plane Fatality in Broward County



What: Single-engine experimental Lancair aircraft using a 400-horsepower high-performance Corvette engine, taken from a car.
Where: North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines. Landed on a fence separating North Perry Airport from nearby tennis courts.
When: 6 pm
Who: pilot Douglas A. Pohl
Why: There was engine trouble immediately after takeoff, then the plane crashed and burned. The plane has a history of a fuel delivery problem (c. about a month ago)

*Update Authorities believe the pilot was trying to return to the runway when the plane clipped a fence surrounding a nearby tennis court. A witness said "He was at 50 feet, wing stalled, started coming over to the left hand, the left side and after that he just kept coming on around. He was upside down and came straight down.""
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