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To: SkyPilot
Sky,

I remember seeing a compulation radar data flight path of JFK's Jr's flight in AOPA's magazine, if the tinfoil hat types ever get a chance to see it perhaps it would change there mind, perhaps not.

It also has been said that he dived the Saratoga via vertigo. It then hit me, that he got inverted and thought up was down and down was up and pulled back and inverted dived into the ground.

I look forward to your reply

81 posted on 03/17/2004 6:25:01 PM PST by taildragger
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To: taildragger
Taildragger,

I didn't see the AOPA article, but your account sounds accurate and confirms what I have heard. You have probably flown over water and night and can attest to how disorienting that can be--especially in haze.

Several years ago, an AF pilot who I knew died when he was flying an F-16 in a low level in the American southwest. The accident investigation board at Kelly AFB was able to determine the cause of the accident--they found pieces of the hud imbedded in his helmet visor. By recreating the angle of the pieces imbedded, they recreated where his head was looking at time of impact. They reconstructed the timeline and flight path, and discovered a train was crossing one of his ground check points on the low level. (I know this because I went to the school and talked to the director--Mike Grost). They determined he saw the train, looked at it, and at 500 feet he leaned enough on the controls to plow into the desert.

Flying is like that--lots of factors involved in any mishap. JFK Jr. died during an approach at night in haze over the water. Nothing conspiratorial about it.

I don't doubt he hated Hillary, she is an opportunist and he likely saw right through her. JRF Jr's mom taught him to be wary of the rest of the Kennedy clan as well. He was the best of that bunch. May God give him rest.

86 posted on 03/18/2004 3:10:08 AM PST by SkyPilot
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