Today's WSJ...aviation articles 1/2

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Cubdriver" usenet AT danford.net wrote in message
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I didn't entirely agree with the WSJ writer. Though I'm glad he can
afford a Cirrus (not on his salary, surely!), I think he's wrong to
exculpate the plane entirely. It does seem that just as the Bonanza
gained the reputation in California as the Doctor Killer,

Only in California?

When I was a kid (1963 or so, about 8 years old...no smart ass remarks,
please) our family doctor, his wife and two kids disappeared without a
trace over Lake Michigan in his Bonanza while enroute home to Denver from
a vacation.

Our family doctor now has a very nice Baron E55, so were keeping our
fingers crossed.

Hardly a California only concept. Growing up in Arkansas the saying was "The
two most dangerous forms of transportation were a doctor in a Bonanza and
certain persons in a pulpwood truck."