Another MU2 down in Florida

[iflyabeech]

Lost an Mu2 near DeFuniak Springs, FL this morning. Pilot didn't make it. Was enroute to Panama City, FL from Tulsa, OK. . . No other info at this time.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Lost an Mu2 near DeFuniak Springs, FL this morning. Pilot didn't make it. Was enroute to Panama City, FL from Tulsa, OK. . . No other info at this time.

Cripes!! how many MU-2 are left?
Don't worry about restricting them, at this rate, they'll all crash in
another year or 2.

CE

 

[TimsKeeper]

omg when is it enough

MU2's....EMB110's....Caravans........

All one common thread for the most part, Cargo operations. My feeling is they are asked to do too much with too little day in and day out.

btw. i'm not knocking the 200x yuppie version of the glass caravans (they are sweet). I'm talking about the 1902 looking 1/2 of a wing left cargo operation caravans.

Rest in peace, you were just trying to live the dream.

 

[sidesaddle]

I pity the person who is in an accident, needs to be airlifted somewhere, and has an MU-2 show up on the ramp to do the air ambulence. What a choice to have to make.


R.I.P. to the crew involved, I agree with the post above, I'm sure the pilot was just trying to live the dream.

 

[funnyguy]

Shat

After all the B.S..i.n.g in this indust....
No cubicle king can claim to have lost a soulbrother

 

[AerroMatt]

Agreed

After all the B.S..i.n.g in this indust....
No cubicle king can claim to have lost a soulbrother

Some pay the price for chasing the dream. Rest in peace dear comrades, we will miss you and god bless your families.

How was it that a poet once wrote? I don't know if I can correctly quote it (not St Exupery), but I think it was "Better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all".

When I think about it, St. Exupery may have told it best in "High Flight". You will never be so alive in an office cubicle as compared to being in harms way...

 

[mu2cptn]

Both the MU-2 Crashes in FL this week were private operators not cargo. Both lost there wings and from what the FAA is reporting and both went though T-Storms. The aircarft that was lost in by PFN was a sister aircraft to our company in TUL and hits very close to home.

MU2's....EMB110's....Caravans........

All one common thread for the most part, Cargo operations. My feeling is they are asked to do too much with too little day in and day out.

btw. i'm not knocking the 200x yuppie version of the glass caravans (they are sweet). I'm talking about the 1902 looking 1/2 of a wing left cargo operation caravans.

Rest in peace, you were just trying to live the dream.

 

[Photoflight]

was this an airfirst aircraft....I talked to a few of there pilots before and they all seemed like real nice guys.

 

[kf4amu]

Both the MU-2 Crashes in FL this week were private operators not cargo. Both lost there wings and from what the FAA is reporting and both went though T-Storms. The aircarft that was lost in by PFN was a sister aircraft to our company in TUL and hits very close to home.

The one about 3 weeks ago over the Volusia/Flagler county line was not weather related I dont think. I was in the area at the exact same time because I had to deviate around a cell, and he ended up about 5 miles north of my position, when the cell was to the south.

 

[TimsKeeper]

Well that's one for the cargo operators, my apologies....keep up the good work this week.

Anyways, was one of the MU-2's based in Rhode Island? Or were they local to Florida?