Seaplane down off Miami Beach....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051219/...us/plane_crash

Dang. It was one of Chalk's famous seaplanes, too... Two confirmed
dead, thus far.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

We were in Bimini last year and saw a Chalk's Grumman Mallard landed
on the water then taxied to the ramp. It was awesome. We had planned
to fly our Cardinal to Florida then fly to Bimini with Chalk next
sprng.
Robert Chamber introduced us to a Mallard owner at Bridgeport last
summer. The owner told us that he would not land his plane in any salt
water. He told me that it cost Chalk airline quite a bit of money to
keep their fleet running.
It's sad to hear about the accident. Just hope that this will not
put Chalk out of business.

Hai Longworth

Robert Chamber introduced us to a Mallard owner at Bridgeport last summer. The owner told us that he would not land his plane in any salt water.

That would be Jack Bart. I know him from my days in Ops at Bridgeport.
I flew in his Mallard a few years back up to Nashua. Man, does that
thing handle like a truck. Built-in delay to roll inputs, but those
1340 Pratts sound awesome. He recently added a Twin Beech (loves round
engines I guess)

One news report was watching last night mentioned 'the NTSB is attempting to
recover the cockpit voice recorder'. Are these small charter lines equipped
with those?

FAR 135 and 121 require cockpit voice recorders on turbine
powered aircraft. They are very simple, just a microphone
and an armored box.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P



"Michael Ware" wrote in message
news | One news report was watching last night mentioned 'the
NTSB is attempting to
| recover the cockpit voice recorder'. Are these small
charter lines equipped
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Thanks for the link. I've been watching MSNBC.... dumbest thing I've
seen... they keep calling it a Hydroplane.
Jim


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051219/...us/plane_crash

Dang. It was one of Chalk's famous seaplanes, too... Two confirmed
dead, thus far.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Thanks for the link. I've been watching MSNBC.... dumbest thing I've
seen... they keep calling it a Hydroplane.

That means "water-plane." They've been called that since Glenn
Curtiss started building them.

vince norris

Just saw the news clip of the airplane going into the water.

Sad....

Just saw the news clip of the airplane going into the water.

Got an URL for that?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid...ws-miami&hl=en


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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| Just saw the news clip of the airplane going into the
water.
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| Got an URL for that?
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination"
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