Something Wrong With This?

[vanNostrum]

The holes in the Swiss cheese lined up on this one

[Colonel]

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.

[vanNostrum]

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?

[Colonel]

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

Well, that's certainly worth dying for.

[ScudRunner-d95]

Unreal how fuck tarded is that.

[Eric Janson]

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.....

[Colonel]

[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.

[ScudRunner-d95]

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