Scudrunners

The holes in the Swiss cheese lined up on this one

Well, on the bright side it looks like he did his
arithmetic correctly - he did run out of gas on
final, did he not?

Was he planning to stay at cruise altitude and
after double-flaming out overhead the destination,
demonstrate a perfect descending-circle forced
approach and landing?

High key for the F-104 was 20,000 feet and
low key was 10,000 feet, so I guess that's
possible, but a little aggressive.

Read on a South American newspaper that waited on the ground an extra 20 minutes with engines on for one of the players had forgotten an electronic game
The original FP had a fuel stop in northern Bolivia  but  the lack of runway lights at that airport preclude a stop after dark
They had done the trip to Medellin a month before,[font=Verdana][/font][font=Verdana][size=2] don't know if they made a fuel stop or counted on tail winds[/size][/font]
Range 1900 [font=Verdana]Distance 1905 NM [/font]
Was one of the holes in the cheese the Captain was a co -owner of the company?

[quote]one of the players had forgotten an electronic game[/quote]

Well, that's certainly worth dying for.

Unreal how fuck tarded is that.

From what I understand a search of the aircraft history reveals multiple flights performed in a similar manner.

Lawyers are going to have fun with this.....

[quote]Lawyers are going to have fun with this[/quote]

Yeah sure, the ambulance chasers are on it ...

But aren't they dead?  How is bad paperwork worse
than death?

Like a TFR.  I know I'm stupid, but I don't get it.  Does
the threat of pilot certificate suspension really dissuade
a suicide bomber with 600 lbs of TNT in his 172? 

If someone is really happy to die, is a letter in the mail
a month afterwards going to make them stop and think,
"Gosh, I better not do this, I might get in trouble".

Or a restraining order.  Some guy kills his wife, and she
took out a restraining order against him.  Evidently if
you're happy to take on a pre-meditated murder charge,
the threat of a fine doesn't seem to slow you down.

I know I'm a bad person, but sometimes, just sometimes,
the paperwork isn't as important as whether or not you die.

Ya public speaking is up there, so most people would rather be in the coffin than delivering the eulogy.