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2014-06-14 -Obits-

Why do small planes hate the politically connected elite?

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2014-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 It's not the fall that gets you, it's the damned sudden stop.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-14 00:07|| 2014-06-14 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Jesus SAM, he was a decent man and died is this shit necessary?

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-14 02:30|| 2014-06-14 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Hear, hear Ship.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-14 04:21|| 2014-06-14 04:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Offensive comment by secret Asian man deleted

Posted by John Frum 2014-06-14 08:56|| 2014-06-14 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Flying your own plane requires a total commitment to keeping current and especially IFR current and practice.

I do not know the entire story behind this accident, and it will take a year on so before NTSB completes its investigation and issues its report.

If you are wealthy you can afford the top of the line aircraft, but training is a must, and if you do not commit to staying current and sharp, you can easily run out altitude, airspeed, and ideas all at once.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-06-14 12:29|| 2014-06-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd have rather gone out like Uncle Nellie...

Posted by tu3031 2014-06-14 18:29|| 2014-06-14 18:29|| Front Page Top

#7 it's not that flying is so much more dangerous; it's that the penalties for failure are so much more rigorous....

Posted by Blinky Turkeyneck7226 2014-06-14 20:09|| 2014-06-14 20:09|| Front Page Top

#8 A nice Bilderburgerer/Illuminati funeral pyre (low carbon release) is in order

Posted by Frank G 2014-06-14 20:21|| 2014-06-14 20:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Like Alaska Paul said, and also the insurance company(-ies) underwriting Mr. Rockefellers life would undoubtedly have an interest in documented competencies beyond Federal Aviation Administration requirements.

Currencies aside, event chains happen.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-14 23:59|| 2014-06-14 23:59|| Front Page Top

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