Will save my comments due to respect for those involved. Thankfully nobody killed.

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Does anyone know if Kenmore has mods on its aircraft to make underwater egress easier than the stock
Beaver setup? Thanks.

CAVU

The enlarged rear window in Kenmore Beavers would fall in that category. Back in the day a local Air Taxi was doing a 4 plane formation take off from Lake Hood in Alaska for a sightseeing flight. The third Beaver in line got caught up in the prop wash of the others....drug a wingtip and cartwheeled right in front of my office and dock ending up inverted in the lake. Myself and Dale Raley another pilot jumped a C206 and I taxied right up on top of wreck. Dale jumped in the water and started diving pulling pax out and giving them to me and I pulled them up on the float. Pilot was first out but was in shock, I kept trying to find out how many pax he had but he was unable to respond. Dale kept diving bringing 4 survivors to surface which I pulled onto floats. About that time Airport Rescue boat arrived and sat off watching us, no help at all. Finally determined there were 5 pax. When Dale brought the 4 to the surface I told him one more. He said I not diving I am drowning...he was exhausted. Bout that time little Craig, Beaver owner, came crashing into the whole mess in one of his 206's jumped out ran across the wing of his plane jumped onto wing of my plane and into the mess. Somehow he was able to smash the rear Kenmore window and pull the last person out thru it. Middle seat was blocking access to rear seats. We were trying CPR and trying to get rescue boat involved. In the end all survived.

In answer to your question The rear window worked in this case but I doubt a normal size person could get thru it. Being on the inside trying to get out might have a different outcome....

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From: Don Cogger <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 8:51 PM
To: dale raley
Subject: cant

Dale can’t remember …but I am thinking that Craig K........ pulled that last lady out of that Kenmore window after u pulled the other four out…is that correct ?

I think so. Kinda lost track after a while, but he got the last one. He had to go all the way into the back seat. Still haven't figured out how that dumb fuck pilot got in the air that quick. The last two were dead but somehow they revived them. Guess that CPR shit works.

Dale Raley

Wow, that's a crazy story. Nice work there and thanks for sharing.

DonC wrote:The enlarged rear window in Kenmore Beavers would fall in that category. Back in the day a local Air Taxi was doing a 4 plane formation take off from Lake Hood in Alaska for a sightseeing flight. The third Beaver in line got caught up in the prop wash of the others....drug a wingtip and cartwheeled right in front of my office and dock ending up inverted in the lake. Myself and Dale Raley another pilot jumped a C206 and I taxied right up on top of wreck. Dale jumped in the water and started diving pulling pax out and giving them to me and I pulled them up on the float. Pilot was first out but was in shock, I kept trying to find out how many pax he had but he was unable to respond. Dale kept diving bringing 4 survivors to surface which I pulled onto floats. About that time Airport Rescue boat arrived and sat off watching us, no help at all. Finally determined there were 5 pax. When Dale brought the 4 to the surface I told him one more. He said I not diving I am drowning...he was exhausted. Bout that time little Craig, Beaver owner, came crashing into the whole mess in one of his 206's jumped out ran across the wing of his plane jumped onto wing of my plane and into the mess. Somehow he was able to smash the rear Kenmore window and pull the last person out thru it. Middle seat was blocking access to rear seats. We were trying CPR and trying to get rescue boat involved. In the end all survived.

In answer to your question The rear window worked in this case but I doubt a normal size person could get thru it. Being on the inside trying to get out might have a different outcome....

________________________________________
From: Don Cogger <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 8:51 PM
To: dale raley
Subject: cant

Dale can’t remember …but I am thinking that Craig K........ pulled that last lady out of that Kenmore window after u pulled the other four out…is that correct ?

I think so. Kinda lost track after a while, but he got the last one. He had to go all the way into the back seat. Still haven't figured out how that dumb fuck pilot got in the air that quick. The last two were dead but somehow they revived them. Guess that CPR shit works.

Dale Raley

The next day in the Anchorage newspaper had a story about how Craig K had rescued 5 pax from a accident at Lake Hood. No mention at all that it was his aircraft.....