On Jul 27, 3:13*am, D Ramapriya wrote:
On Jul 27, 10:36*am, Dudley Henriques wrote:





Probably sucked in during post-landing taxi to the apron from the
previous flight?

Ramapriya

Nope. Saw the child who did it, although didn't actually see him do
it. He was being carried by his father on the line at one of our show
sites in 1971. Have used the incident in a hundred safety lectures on
pre-flights. I had preflighted the airplane for my next display and
had run across the ramp to grab a coke from a snack wagon. Saw the man
and his kid before I left. Came back and re-preflighted the airplane
again because it was out of my direct sight since I had done the last
one.
Caught the bear in the carb tunnel on the second preflight.
Rule number ONE for display pilots, and for all pilots for that matter
as far as I'm concerned anyway! ANYTIME the airplane is out of your
sight for ANY reason after you have done a preflight inspection, do it
again!
Dudley Henriques

Nice story

If only the two pilots on that fateful Aeroperu 603 had done one, 70
souls + an entire company + a nice 757 would all still have been alive
and functional.

Ramapriya

When it comes to flying and one's attitude about flying, a pilot is
well advised to remember the immortal words of race driver Tom Sneva,
who after hitting the wall at Indy at 200 plus, was asked by a
reporter as he was walking back to his pit if he would like to be able
to enter that turn again and do it right the next time.
Sneva looked at the man and said,
"If if's and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry
Christmas"
DH