Quote Originally Posted by rwanttaja View Post
Or with serious injuries or death, of course.

Otherwise, very true, and not just on the low-buck airplanes. I had previously mentioned a BD-4 accident that occurred at an EAA picnic on an airpark. Chapter members got the pieces stuffed into a hangar before the cops showed up.

Another case involved a taxi accident of another BD-4. The owner argued this didn't qualify as an aviation accident because the airplane hadn't yet been given an airworthiness certificate. Plus it didn't have wings on.
A friend of mine had the engine quit on a T-cart when he was about to enter downwind in the pattern. Could not quite make the runway and the plane flipped over in a field. The locals were there before the dirt settled, one of which was John Swick. After a brief discussion, JS said "the fewer people that find out the better" so they toted the plane to an empty hangar and and had the sight cleaned up in no time. I like that kind of thinking.

I know of a no wings installed accident and the feds said, nope, no intent to fly so it was essentially a go-kart accident.