"Peter R." wrote in message
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Icebound wrote:



http://www.avweb.com/news/features/187931-1.html

As a relatively new aircraft owner who has seen these pictures from
other hurricanes, I don't understand why these owners wouldn't have
flown their airplanes to safety during the few days prior to the event.

Many owners will, but in this case Charley took a different path than
projected. It is possible that some owners thought they were flying their
planes to safety and instead flew right into the path of the hurricane.

Other owners probably thought their planes were safe inside hangars. Still
others know how to tie their airplanes down properly, but forgot that does
not protect them from improperly tied down airplanes and other debris.

Then there are the people with unairworthy aircraft, owners who themselves
may have been sick or incapacitated, owners with more than one airplane who
had time to save only one, absentee owners or owners on vacation, etc. A
huge number of the airplanes that are on leaseback at FBOs are rarely if
ever seen by their owners.

Add to that the usual percentage of people who are complacent or who are
hoping that destruction of their current airplane will enable them to
collect enough insurance to buy a better one and you have a lot of airplanes
that simply did not move.