Inhofe "Scared The Crap Out Of" Airport Workers

The Smoking Gun ^ | April 13, 2011

[EveningStar]

Newly released Federal Aviation Administration documents and audiotapes shed a scary new light on a bizarre incident late last year during which U.S. Senator James Inhofe landed his Cessna on a closed runway at a south Texas airport, scattering construction workers who ran for their lives as the politician’s plane hopscotched over them and six vehicles.

[EveningStar]

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[Cowman]

According to the Discovery channel they do this sort of thing all the time in Alaska

[EveningStar]

Aviation ping

[Joe 6-pack]

I guess now when you google “Senator Airplane” McCaskill’s little tax problem won’t be so obvious.

[saganite]

The guy needs to lose his pilots license. He’s a hazard to aviation.

[kbennkc]

Don't you know who I am?

[rawhide]

Boyd also said that Inhofe showed little contrition following the close call. “He come over here and started being like, 'What the hell is this? I was supposed to have unlimited airspace.'”

Arrogant jerk!

[YOMO]

Of Course,,,Sky King and his twin Beach.

[blackdog]

I know a doctor who landed on the taxiway when cleared to land at Hart's Field, Atlanta Int'l. Twice!

Or how about the C5 transport plane belonging to the Airforce that landed at Newburgh airport in New York instead of the airbase in Poughkipsee? They had to dismantle the wings and truck it out because it was too short of a runway.

Inhoffe has been a GA pilot for thirty years I know of. He flies a Cesna 421, which is a lot of complex plane without a copilot. Biz jets are easier to fly than high performance twin piston engines.

[Joe Boucher]

As a kid I watched Sky King. It is the reason I got my pilots licence.
Were I to do this my ticket would be yanked.

[B4Ranch]

Kirby Grant as Sky King

[forgotten man]

Where is Sky King’s neice Penny? Is she back at the Flying Crown Ranch?

[razorback-bert]

Umm, it was UC-78B and Cessna 310B.

[blackdog]

Hazards in aviation have a way of taking care of themselves. It's not a wise thing to combine your professional life and assume your own pilot duties. Each requires 100% of your attention and concentration in the planning, operational, and wrap up phases. You cannot be adequately prepared for both.

I used to be in defense contracting and used to make deliveries if we were late on some finished goods. I remember spending two days machining parts, assembling, testing, painting, and then I would kick the tires and go, landing @ rural virginia airports at the midnight hours where the customer was waiting. One strip had no lighting. We had the guy park his truck shining his lights down the strip so we knew it's threshold. I took off in a Baron one night after getting a phone call that a circuit board had failed in a component we provided. I had to have a new board there in three hours. I didn't check the weather, filed in the air, and almost ran out of fuel on approach to land. The look on the fuel guy's face when we topped off to leave was scary. You do dumb things when trying to make people happy, and that's life in politics.

[headstamp 2]

“Or how about the C5 transport plane belonging to the Airforce that landed at Newburgh airport in New York instead of the airbase in Poughkipsee? They had to dismantle the wings and truck it out because it was too short of a runway.”

What airbase in Po’keepsie? There ain’t none.

Do you mean Griffis in Rome, NY?

[okie01]

“Or how about the C5 transport plane belonging to the Airforce that landed at Newburgh airport in New York instead of the airbase in Poughkipsee?

You might have that backward. Newburgh airport used to be Stewart AFB...and Poughkeepsie might be where the C-5 landed.

[blackdog]

Beacon Newbergh area. Airports are about 10 miles apart. Same runway orientation. And yes there is an air base there.

[blackdog]

Yep, Stewart! Is it closed?

[Grut]

Newburgh Airport is the former Stewart AFB. It has a 12,000’ runway and an ANG unit that flies C-5s. I suspect there may be some confusion here.