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Re: Someone at FAA will Fry for Not Responding to A Call Made From Martha's vinyard airport

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From: D. Miller
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00
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My hunch is that the NTSB et. al. will find themselves under very heavy
pressure to find something besides "pilot error."  The Kennedy's are no
stranger to that kind of hardball, and none of the Kennedy sycophants in the
media seem ready or able to accept the possibility that the poor sucker just
made a mistake.  That's not the kind of legacy they're interested in
building for him, regardless of whether it is true or not.

Some aviation/writer person has already mentioned that that series of craft
had a recall sheet for their alternator belt, the loss of which would have
caused him to lose all instrumentation after 1/2 hour.  So, they're already
searching mightily for that angle.  My last thoughts on this subject are:
I'll be very suspicious if some sort of miracle mechanical problem pops up
out of the blue, but in the end that's something we will never know for
sure.

And on the slight chance that some mech failure did happen, all I can say
is, "That poor S.O.B.  That really is a pretty shitty way to go out."
However, had he stayed within his limits, (flying under clear, daytime
conditions), maybe even he would have survivied a catastrophic instrument
failure.  But I still would be a lot less critical of him than if he just
took off, succumbed to vertigo, and splashed with two people on board,
(which is what I strongly assume).

D. "Dada" MIller


Yogi Runningbear wrote in message <3795187e@news5.newsfeeds.com>...
>A call was placed to FAA 20 min. after Kennedys plane disappearance from a
>worker at Marthas Vin Airport, but the ATC person who took the call
>appeared to diss the caller. In reading the transcripts he appeared to be
>a smart ass and gave the caller a hard time. If he had taken the call
>seriously could it have been possible for a better chance to locate the
>downed plane?...and possibly find survivors?
>
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Subject: Re: Someone at FAA will Fry for Not Responding to A Call Made From Martha's vinyard airport
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