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Subject: Travolta - did he ever ditch an aircraft?
From: (Paul Tomblin) Date: 3/14/2004 8:35 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: In a previous article, (Rick Durden) said: Please tell us how you would handle a complete electrical failure, at night, in IMC when your flight instruments are not vacuum powered, but are electrically driven. I don't know, I don't have a type rating in a G4. People I know who *do* have type ratings in jets assure me that there are ways to do it and it wouldn't kill "most pilots", unless you count people without type ratings on that aircraft in the list. Three questions: Did this "emergency" really occur? If the answer to the first was "yes", then was there a smoking hole at the arrival end of the approach? If the answer to the second was "no", was there an FAA/NTSB inquiry as to his fitness to continue as an IFR rated aviator, let alone continue flying at all? If we assume the answer to the first was yes, and since we know the answer to the second was no and the third one was no, then we have to assume that whatEVER he did was sufficently adequate to get him home safely, the aircraft is still in one piece, and he never made the headlines with an "ACTOR DEAD IN CRASH" headline. That is a good thing, regardless of who he is. Steve @ BGF |
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