This year's leading contender...

....for the "Most Clueless Aviation Reporting" trophy:

http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt

In article ,
"Dan Luke" wrote:

...for the "Most Clueless Aviation Reporting" trophy:

http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt

nah - it doesn't have the required comment about not having filed a flight plan.

I did love the bit about the annual report required soon after buying an
airplane.

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Dan Luke" wrote:

...for the "Most Clueless Aviation Reporting" trophy:

http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt

nah - it doesn't have the required comment about not having filed a flight
plan.

I did love the bit about the annual report required soon after buying an
airplane.

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

I noticed that the Associated Press "contributed to the article." You can
halfway understand some green reporter getting it all wrong, but damn, the
AP should have some resources they could use.

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...
...for the "Most Clueless Aviation Reporting" trophy:

http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt


God, I hope that one wins.

The prospect of any other winner is terrifying!

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...
...for the "Most Clueless Aviation Reporting" trophy:

http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt
No where near.

No comments like "plummeted to the ground"
Seen an aircraft described as a "piston engined jet before"
No schools narrowly averted or even better no account of the pilot
struggling with the controls to avoid a school/hospital/factory* (*delete as
necessary)
How would anyone know whether the pilot was struggling with the controls
anyway?

Hey, TriPackers are some of my favorite airplanes,
way better than PiperClubs.

"S Green" wrote:


http://www.beatricedailysun.com:80/a...news/news5.txt
No where near.


Let's see your candidate.

Actually I heard about this from another source that indicated that he lost
a wing. The link to another paper local to the accident is"
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:...lnk&cd=1&gl=us

If indeed he lost a wing--pretty scary.

Cheers:

Paul
N1431A
PA-22

Ron Natalie wrote:
Hey, TriPackers are some of my favorite airplanes,
way better than PiperClubs.
My all time favorite from an interview with an FAA representative
talking about a pilot who got himself lost.

"The pilot said he was over some buildings that were under him"

Dudley Henriques

On Jul 8, 3:37 pm, "Tri-Pacer" wrote:
Actually I heard about this from another source that indicated that he lost
a wing. The link to another paper local to the accident is"http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:ZXROEg8USrIJ:journalstar.com/news...

If indeed he lost a wing--pretty scary.

Cheers:

Paul
N1431A
PA-22

Was flying my TriPacer cross country one day and noticed what looked
like a pencil mark on a strut. Turns out it was a crack. And there
have been the ADs on strut forks.
--
Gene Seibel
Gene & Sue's Aeroplanes - http://pad39a.com/gene/planes.html
Because we fly, we envy no one.