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The NTSB has issued their final report on the fatal crash of my friend Al Lavender's Sonex in 2017.
https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Repor ... l&IType=FA

Supporting information:
https://dms.ntsb.gov/pubdms/search/hitl ... 6F847FB09C

Attention to detail. Fly the airplane no matter what. Let's be careful out there.

Thank you for linking the report, I am sorry for your loss.

For what it's worth, I recommend religious use of torque seal (visible paste that dries hard to indicate if a nut has moved) on all torqued parts including fuel/oil lines. Anytime final torque is made, apply a squirt of paste across the gap between the nut and the connector, and assume that any nut/connector without torque-seal has not been tightened yet. This even applies to routinely removed connections like oil lines for an oil change. Old hard paste is easy enough to chip off with a fingernail when a connector is removed, and fresh paste applied once reconnected.