This just kills me...and three others

[WrightAvia]

 

[rubberlayin]

What a truly heartless summary you have made for this sad situation. Whatever the circumstances of this accident may be, you have shown that 1) you don't have children 2) you have no class 3) it should've been you

I pity you

 

[WrightAvia]

Dude...dad murdered his daughter and took an employee of his company in with them for safe measure. I posted the article for the interest of CFI's that have 120 hour private pilots out there riding on their tickets. I had a guy like that in management at one of my day job's in the past. The guy OWNED two airplanes and had over 100 hours of student TIME. His regular CFI wasn't going to keep signing off on him to solo anymore and he was approaching me to do some signoffs. I said no. Go get a freaking pilots license.

If you have to go around wishing death on people...I think you have the problem. I didn't wish this crash on this guy. He wished me to read about it in the news though.

 

[Timebuilder]

If only this guy had seen the video we had here in the board of that moron "flying" the helicopter he had purchased before the instructor arrived. Remember "bubba"?

Nothing like compounding your own stupidity by killing others in the process, especially your own child.

Senseless.

 

[WrightAvia]

I was sitting in LSE once waiting on a charter passenger. There was alot of buzz by the FBO front counter about a student that was on an unauthorized cross country in a 152. He took off and just decided he was going to fly to Ashland WI or Superior WI...(I can't remember but it was up in that ball park). He flew up there with the FBO's plane on a saturday to visit a family member. He didn't refuel and was put down in a field about 40 miles north of the LSE airport out of fuel. He wasn't injured. In fact he came into the FBO and was talking to the CFI's and FBO management at the counter for quite a while.

Amazing what you can hear when you are just sitting somewhere.

 

[dmspilot00]

So what did they say/do to him?

 

[WrightAvia]

To be honest with you...and this is what I gathered from listening in...was that the plane wasn't damaged enough for an NTSB report and that since there was no injuries, the FEDS just wanted to make sure that there wasn't a mechanical which would require some AD's or emergency AD's to be issued. The student pilot was rather nonchalant about it. (which is kind of scary, if you know what I mean)

Things may have happened since that day like some kind of enforcement action...but I doubt we'll ever be able to find out. What can you do to guy with just a student certificate? I mean you can pull it and bannish the guy from flying. Maybe fine him?

As far as the FBO went...I don't know, was affraid to ask them what they were going to do about it. I suppose if he picked up the cost of repair and retrieval, what would you do? Ban the customer?

All I know of that day's incident, was that little snapshot of that day that I got to see. You never know how lenient the feds can be. I know a guy that totaled out a 182 and it never made it to the NTSB reports either.

 

[A Squared]

Timebuilder,

If I recall correctly, it was even better than "bubba"; it was "hog" or at least that's what it sounded like on the video.

 

[katanabob]

One night, after taxiing in from a hundred-dollar hamburger adventure (with a girl who would develop a severe hatred for both aviation and I, but that's another story) I heard what sounded like someone cobbing the power over and over, accompanied by a loud metallic scraping/crunching noise. Realizing that this could be something really interesting, (though not realizing that the girl was in no way interested in anything besides going to my place or hers.. yet another sad end to a story with so much potential) I hopped on the golf cart and drove in the noise's general direction... only to find a 152 with one wing wedged under the wing of a CAP 172, and some horrified student pilot trying desperately to power out of the situation. (His first experience with 'excessive power required to taxi')

He shut down shortly after I shined a flashlight in his face, and refused (quite vehemently, I might add) any assistance in getting the two Cessnas to stop mating. I introduce myself, he conveniently leaves out his name, though assures me his instructor had signed him off to solo. At night. However, poking/prodding was no longer looking to be as much fun with the poor student as it should have been with my date, so I bid my goodbyes and sped off.

The next morning there was a flurry of excitement as everyone marvelled at the carnage left behind overnight. I kindly passed on to the FBO what little information I had and come to find out that the guy was not signed off to solo, day or night, and had only hours before recieved an intro ride. He was unavailable for comment, but would be returning shortly from his first lesson.

I think he put nails in my usual parking space or something, because both my car and my golf cart got multiple flat tires that next week.

 

[ShawnC]

In case anyone is wondering here is the file of the student helicopter crashing.

http://nuke.lazyeights.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownloaddetails&lid=21&ttitle=Student_Helicopter_crashes

Should be up in a couple of minutes.