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CNET Editor's body found by Searchers (Update #941)
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| 12-04-06
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Posted on 12/04/2006 3:18:35 PM PST by sockmonkey
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To: BearWash
Amen to that.
When I was an active private pilot (haven't flown regularly for years), I had absolutely no compunction about turning around when the weather up ahead starting looking bad. I always had a field in mind for a quick landing, too.
"If you have time to spare, go by air."
I read those accident reports every month in AOPA Pilot magazine.
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:13:33 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Dont Mention the War
Just get
this or
this. They both have emergency plans.
To: OregonRancher
Dang. That sounds like an area not to mess around with.
Thanks for the first hand info. We don't have anything like that in the Southeast, except possibly some primitive roads in the Smoky Mt Natl Park, which can get pretty hairy in winter. We don't get sudden blizzards though.
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:15:06 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Phsstpok
Do we know which road they were found on/near? From an update at CNET:
At approximately 1:45 p.m. PST, search-and-rescue officials were notified that a vehicle and a female waving an umbrella were spotted by a helicopter search crew near the Rogue River in the area of Bear Camp Viewpoint off Bear Camp Road, according to a statement from Oregon State Police. This location is near the Curry/Josephine County line in Josephine County.
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:16:20 PM PST
by
sockmonkey
(Die, Possums, Die)
To: Phsstpok
105
posted on
12/04/2006 4:16:48 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
To: blowfish; BunnySlippers
Thanks for confirming that you can't take a joke.
106
posted on
12/04/2006 4:16:57 PM PST
by
proudpapa
(of three.)
To: ansel12
I've started carrying our small bottles of water in our car instead of in my house. There have been enough times when we are really thirsty, and it is very nice to be able to go to the trunk and get some water.
To: Rushmore Rocks
"(Never go to cut a Christmas tree in a Volkswagon Beetle) "That's definitely one to write down.....LOL
108
posted on
12/04/2006 4:18:13 PM PST
by
WestCoastGal
(Winners Never Quit!!)
To: AnAmericanMother
I'm not active either but the one slightly hairy flight I had (weather related) was north of Bend, OR along a squall of developing thunderstorms. In hindsight, I should have turned around! As it was, I stayed low and close to the highway and made it home with nothing unusual occurring. That was luck or guardian angel, though.
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:19:40 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: sockmonkey; little jeremiah
Little Jeremiah noted on another thread the precariousness of that road in the summer with a 4WD!
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:21:16 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: BearWash
I once raced two thunderstorms to my destination, landed on the field in full sunlight, it was pouring 15 minutes later while I was still tying down the plane.
I probably should have turned around too. You can't race much of anything in a Cessna 150.
But I had four cartons of live bees on the back shelf. . . .
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:21:52 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: Nailbiter
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:23:55 PM PST
by
IncPen
(When Al Gore Finished the Internet, he invented Global Warming)
To: Rushmore Rocks
Many, many years ago, Mr. RR, the three children and I went to cut a Christmas tree just a few mile east of Laramie, Wyo.
My grandparents homesteaded in the Wind River area "way back when" and helped settle and build Riverton, Wyoming. They didn't have no stinking Volkswagen, neither! They had an open Ford and they started out with a sod hut.
Two of my uncles stayed there when the rest of the family moved on and worked "the line" for the energy companies for many years, meaning they took crews out to fix things or rode horses back into the hills to monitor the rigs and pipelines in all sorts of weather. One of them is still alive and in his 80s. The other died in his 80s... while taking his regular motorcycle ride.
I've always said I'd love to live in Wyoming... so long as I knew I didn't have to live in Wyoming. Talk about your high lonesome!
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:24:18 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: proudpapa
Too clueless to add a smiley? Your delivery of your joke made it sound totally real. I wasn't the only one horrified.
114
posted on
12/04/2006 4:25:30 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(Never Forget / Giuliani 2008)
To: AnAmericanMother
Well, the live bees angles tops anything I can come up with but I did move backwards (negative groundspeed) with a strong headwind once with a Piper PA-22.
115
posted on
12/04/2006 4:26:46 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: Howlin
116
posted on
12/04/2006 4:30:46 PM PST
by
sockmonkey
(Die, Possums, Die)
To: VOA
While they show the truly extreme cases, the "I Shouldn't Be Alive" series shows plenty of times when if someone hadn't hoofed it for help, the whole party probably would have perished. I'm thinking of that men's soccer team which crashed in the Andes many years ago. They were there for months, literally until two of them actually hiked out. They lead a rescue team back to the plane.
Many books on this story, BTW.
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:31:16 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(Never Forget / Giuliani 2008)
To: sockmonkey
Thank God they've found the wife and girls, prayers that they find the father and he's okay.
118
posted on
12/04/2006 4:31:56 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(Murtha still owes the Haditha Marines an apology-See DogMurtha.com.)
To: PLMerite
start as big a forest fire as I can. That has always been my thought. If they don't find you for your sake, they'll find you for the forest's sake.
119
posted on
12/04/2006 4:32:02 PM PST
by
Theophilus
(A person is a person no matter how small)
To: sockmonkey
Thank God! I've been praying for them today. Yes, I hope he is found soon and in good condition.
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posted on
12/04/2006 4:33:55 PM PST
by
Marysecretary
(Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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