Reba McEntire's Jet Charter Company

[User546]

I read one time that after Reba McEntire (the country singer) lost all the members of her band in a plane crash (CFIT - San Diego) that she started up her own charter company to cater to the country music stars and celebs.

I have seen one of the planes before out on a ramp somewhere, but I can't remember the name of the company.

Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about, and if so, where are they located out of, what do they fly, etc.

Thanks!

 

[jointops]

Was it a plane wreck? I could have sworn it was a bus crash. My sister-in-law was a roadie for her and I thought she said it was a bus.


Happy landings.

 

[semperfido]

and I thought she said it was a bus.

....if a bus looks like a hawker then she is correct

 

[banned username 2]

If i remember correctly, the company is called Star Struck Jets... And it was a plane crash that wiped out her band... a Hawker...

 

[corp_da20_guy]

Used to be called Starstruck Jet based at Gallatin, TN. Used to see the planes at BNA frequently. At one point in time had a Hawker and a Lear 35. I believe all airplanes have been sold and she no longer has an airplane.

 

[User546]

Hawker took off with her band during night VFR out of Brown Field in San Diego, with the intentions of picking up their IFR clearance airborne.

Unfortunately, they didn't follow the Instrument Departure Instructions and a mountain got in the way of that golden plan.

The NTSB report is below:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001212X16614&key=1

 

[HMR]

That's not the first time that's happened. Nightime VFR out of Brown is a bad idea.

 

[User546]

Thanks both of you for the information on the company name.

Doing a little research on the internet, it now appears that reba sold the company to another partner who is now operating it under the name FlightSolutions, Inc.

http://www.flightsolution.com/newprofile/

Looks like they had a pretty impressive fleet of aircraft at one point!

 

[C-5 MEM]

I know a couple of pilots who fly for her in BNA. I ran into them in CMH about a month ago. JW said that they pick her up in BNA go out to the shows and come back to BNA that night and start all over again the next morning. They go through pilots, but the money is real good.

 

[J3 Guy]

There was a recent accident at that same Brown Field, a few months ago. This time a Lear on a medical flight. Same issue CFIT, to bad they did not read up on previous accidents, might of avoided a repeat.

Cub guy

 

[ultrarunner]

That's not the first time that's happened. Nightime VFR out of Brown is a bad idea.

Wasn't the last either. By all accounts, that medivac followed the same path.

I haven't made a VFR takeoff in over 6 years...and I'm darn proud of it!

 

[Gulfstream 200]

Its unfortunate but...

Once is bad enough, twice is unexcuseable.

 

[SpeedMetal]

i once heard it was an "American Jet" charter plane from HOU

just what i heard once.

 

[100LL... Again!]

You know, if we keep smashing up perfectly good airplanes and killing our passengers because we are trying a little shortcut to get out quick, or because we are uneducated about proper departure procedures, pretty soon the flying public might get the impression that we are a bunch of incompetents.

But that's just a thought.

 

[Flying Illini]

You know, if we keep smashing up perfectly good airplanes and killing our passengers because we are trying a little shortcut to get out quick, or because we are uneducated about proper departure procedures, pretty soon the flying public might get the impression that we are a bunch of incompetents.

But that's just a thought.

Funny you should say that...I just got asked the question, "How come all of these small jets are crashing all of a sudden? It's the same type of flying you do, right? What are they doing wrong?"
Then the conversation progressed and ultimately this question was asked (and it always pisses me off), "When are you going to fly commercially?"

Anyway, I agree with what you are saying, one or two, it happens, but it sure seems like there have been an awful lot of corporate crashes within the past 4 months.

 

[100LL... Again!]

It is very politically incorrect to say something that seems to criticize a dead pilot, but CFIT is an inexcusable error, in my opinion.

We are either the independent, intelligent, self-reliant professionals that we claim to be, or we are a bunch of trained apes flipping switches and reading out of manuals and checklists.

The I-didn't-know response about DPs is not acceptable. Fine, you're fired, we'll hire someone who has heard of them.

Pilots want to be thought of as the solid professional when it comes to demanding pay. Buuut, when they Frok it up, they want to shift the blame to those who trained them or the operation they fly under, or "the FAA should have published a warning", or some BS.

How many pilots have done an exhaustive read of all those dry advisory circulars? Not many, and yet we desire to be compared to doctors and lawyers?

The doctors and lawyers must get a real hoot out of that one.

 

[pc12_driver]

Does anyone know if Starstruck is hiring? I don't see a contact to send resume's to on the website.

 

[aeronautic1]

It is very politically incorrect to say something that seems to criticize a dead pilot, but CFIT is an inexcusable error, in my opinion.

We are either the independent, intelligent, self-reliant professionals that we claim to be, or we are a bunch of trained apes flipping switches and reading out of manuals and checklists.

The sad thing is that we all go to work with a professional attitude.
Climb into the seat and preflight by checklist. Get the ATIS/Clearance and load the FMS. Everything goes smoothly and then there is a sequence of errors that, if the chain of events is not recognized or broken, the end result will be tragic. And it happens to 2500 hour pilots as well as 19,000 hour pilots. Its mission-itis that bites more pilots is the arse. Fly smart 'yall.

 

[400A]

Cfit

In the ongoing war between mother earth and Aluminum objects traveling hundreds of miles an hour,,,, Mother earth has yet to loose.

 

[Ace-of-the-Base]

What's really happening here is quite clear: Modern jet aircraft are becoming so reliable that the only way to crash one is to take a perfectly good airplane and run it into something. The other part of the same problem (if you can call reliability a problem) is that the by-product is that the pilots of recent times have not had to deal with all of the actual emergencies that made us old timers into better pilots. Every advancment has a flip-side. There is no easy answer.

Ace