[simpits-tech] This sucks

[Marv De Beque]

Anyone that interferes with me doing a preflight ... I'd rather not think
about how I would react.

Sorry for the bad news.

Marv


On 6/9/05 10:56 PM, "Bubba" <mysticz28 at swbell.net> wrote:

> As I pulled into the airport today I saw 3 helicopters hovering off the end
> of 14 and knew there wasn't good news waiting for me. No pilot, even one in
> a news helicopter, would loiter off the departure end of the active runway
> without a damn good reason. I slid to a stop in the first parking spot I
> could find, attempted to dive out of the car without popping the harness
> (ouch), collected myself, and ran into the FBO just in time to catch
> something on the news about a light twin going down just south of CXO. We
> didn't know anything at the time, but one of the school's instructors was
> out in the Duchess doing touch and goes and had pretty much vanished, so we
> had a good idea what was going on. There's still no official word, but it
> sounds like he lost an engine and went down, hitting a house. Everything was
> burned/melted to the point that they couldn't easily identify the plane. I
> decided it was a good idea to stay on the ground until the helicopters had
> left, so I started preflight around 8 for some short field TOL and maybe
> forward slips. Unfortunately I wasn't fast enough and the news crew caught
> me and I had to step over a cameraman more than once during preflight. He
> almost caught a large, stainless tiedown fitting in the face.
> 
> The part that had me a little uneasy was the fact that he obviously lost an
> engine, everyone was running around talking about the NTSB wanting samples
> from the fuel truck, and my tanks got topped off right after the Duchess's
> yesterday from the same truck. And after all this I'm still flying to
> Galveston tomorrow so I can do it alone next week.
> --
> Steve
> mysticz28 at swbell.net
> He who seeks will find, and he who knocks will be let in.
> 
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