Grand Aire Owner Killed

[Nick5600]

If only we could get Noel Rude, and Bud Rude at ATI to crew their own airplanes. At least the Owner of G.A. had enough gonads to get in his own planes.

 

[Nick5600]

In other news G.A. is advertising on www.skyjobs.net for falcon 20 pilots. They are doing this a day after the owner is killed. That seems pretty cold to me. I wonder how many resumes they will get for that posistion.

 

[Rhoid]

In other news G.A. is advertising on www.skyjobs.net for falcon 20 pilots. They are doing this a day after the owner is killed. That seems pretty cold to me. I wonder how many resumes they will get for that posistion.

I'm sending them one, seems like an OK place to hang out and build some more jet time, while I decide which major to get on with.

 

[jbDC9]

...build some more jet time, while I decide which major to get on with.

I want a job at a major

working my way towards a major

Dude, are you serious? Do you even know what's happening in the industry? I hate to say it, but other than Southwest, FDX, or UPS, the majors ain't hiring and won't be for quite a few more years. You make it sound so easy... first, decide which major you want to be at. Then, just get on there. Whoa, that was easy! Don't know why all those thousands of other furloughed, outta work pilots can't just "get on" at a major of their choice.

I really don't mean to rag on ya, but with comments and a profile like yours, it just comes across as either being incredibly naiive or incredibly arrogant. Not sure which direction you're coming from, although from reading some of your previous posts, I'd say you're both naiive and arrogant... if you "get on" at Grand Aire, I hope you're ready to be there for a very, very long time.

 

[ACT700]

I don't know about the Falcon 20 ad-I mean they could have submitted the ad with skyjobs before the crash, and it just happened to post today? I don't know.
But, on the other hand, about half the pilots won't be back to work for quite a while-could be quite a looong while!
But for those of you who think about going there beware; you feelin' lucky?!

What a crappy way to start December and Xmas.

 

[100-1/2]

dude, you just told on yourself.

100 1/2??
What does a PTT switch have to do with the death of Tahir or his first officer??
Wasthe statement about sighning off a student aimed at me? I don't think so. Whether or not you liked him or not ( did you even know him? ) or disapprove of the way he ran his business. Even I argued with him on a daily basis, but I never changed the way I flew or did my business, Tahir respected that, and he was my friend. Who the hell are you to wish anyone who dies in this business ill will??


As for the first officer, I didn't know him, but my prayers go out to his family as well.

Stephen Zalewski

I was making a generalized statement about the media and you jumped right in there to defend your rocker switch write-up.

As for ill-will? Where did you come up with that?

I was also ragging on the media and the company's procedures for dispatching aircraft. How many PIC's signed off on these aircraft as airworthy prior to flight in the time periods cited by the FAA and the media? Prior to your outburst, this was the only entertaining part of the whole mess.

BTW - I am pained with every death in our industry, not just my friends' or those I might know or have communed with at one time. You sound like the kind of joe that pulls the trigger on those you don't know because you think you have some clue as to their unfortunate demise.

I feel for your loss and wish this on no one. It is easy to subscribe to the premise that, "you reap what you sow." I would prefer to wait for the NTSB final report and hope for Tahir's family/estate's sake that the accident was not a result of any wrongdoing. The FO's family would easily have a neglegence/wrongful death case with GA's history if there is a correlation.

100-1/2

 

[KPTPK]

GA's Hansa Jet.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/304033/M/

 

[Citationkid]

Any truth to this?

I saw this on another website today, any one know if it's true? Sorry if it's been discussed in a different section, I didn't notice it...

Both men on board were killed. Now this afternoon, authorities report that several witnesses on the ground reported the pilot was having engine problems prior to takeoff. On top of that, tower records show that the plane made two aborted takeoff runs, with the pilot reporting loss of power. They actually took off on the third try, only to disappear from radar two minutes later.

 

[Jamis81]

I hadn't heard that part yet, about the loss of power. what website did you read that on?

 

[Bandit60]

I have a friend who works at SUS and he said that it made took fuel, then made a high speed taxi, then went to some type of maint. Another high speed taxi was tried and then they went to the end of the runway and took off.

I don't know how accurate these accounts are.