Intersting tidbit about the Miami seaplane crash and fuel reserves

[xyzzy]

from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/

"One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."

Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
they would be within legal IFR (or even VFR) reserves if they really
take off without enough fuel to reach Havana. I wonder if they were
just saying that to discourage hijackers?

[Steve Robertson]

Bimini is approximately 50 nm from Miami. Havana is considerably farther
away.

Best regards,

Steve Robertson
N4732J 1967 Beechcraft Musketeer

xyzzy wrote:

> from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/
>
> "One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
> company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."
>
> Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
> they would be within legal IFR (or even VFR) reserves if they really
> take off without enough fuel to reach Havana. I wonder if they were
> just saying that to discourage hijackers?

[tscottme]

"xyzzy" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/
>
> "One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
> company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."
>
> Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
> they would be within legal IFR (or even VFR) reserves if they really
> take off without enough fuel to reach Havana. I wonder if they were
> just saying that to discourage hijackers?
>

I'm not so sure they file IFR very often.

--
Scott

[Paul Folbrecht]

They're an air carrier, aren't they? All such operations are conducted
under IFR.

tscottme wrote:
> "xyzzy" > wrote in message
> oups.com...
>
>>from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/
>>
>>"One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
>>company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."
>>
>>Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
>>they would be within legal IFR (or even VFR) reserves if they really
>>take off without enough fuel to reach Havana. I wonder if they were
>>just saying that to discourage hijackers?
>>
>
>
> I'm not so sure they file IFR very often.
>

[Newps]

Paul Folbrecht wrote:
> They're an air carrier, aren't they? All such operations are conducted
> under IFR.

No, they're not.

[tscottme]

"Paul Folbrecht" > wrote in message
...
> They're an air carrier, aren't they? All such operations are conducted
> under IFR.
>


I've been leaving KFLL when I was IFR, getting a clearance, and when Chalks
was ready to depart with passengers, and I know they departed VFR. Now
granted that was early '90s, and things may have changed since. Sometimes
they departed VFR and sometimes they departed IFR, at least from the airport
I flew from and worked at.

--
Scott

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