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Rep. Mary Peltola’s husband was flying with 520 pounds of moose meat, antlers strapped to wing at time of fatal crash
New York Post ^ | Sep. 29, 2023 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 09/29/2023 11:44:12 AM PDT by nickcarraway

The husband of Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola was ferrying more than 500 pounds of moose and antlers from a remote hunting camp in Alaska when his small plane crashed shortly after takeoff earlier this month, officials said.

Eugene Peltola Jr., 57, the sole person aboard the Piper PA-18, was found conscious but died at the scene after it crashed Sept. 12 near the village of St. Mary’s, some 500 miles west of Fairbanks, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its initial report Thursday.

Two days before the crash, Peltola took five hunters, a guide and equipment from Holy Cross to a site about 80 miles northwest of the community, where they set up camp next to a landing strip.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; moose
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To: nickcarraway

Well that was a total waste of a Moose.


61 posted on 09/29/2023 2:10:56 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: nickcarraway

Sorry to hear this news. Condolences to Rep. Peltola and her family.


62 posted on 09/29/2023 2:28:41 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: nickcarraway

Now watch her claim that anyone who runs against her has no sympathy for a grieving widow.


63 posted on 09/29/2023 2:29:25 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: nickcarraway
Earlier, during training,


64 posted on 09/29/2023 2:50:11 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: dforest

That’s a RINO not a moose. LOL


65 posted on 09/29/2023 2:54:32 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: nickcarraway

Piper PA-18...................

Empty Weight - 930 lb. Useful Load - 820 lb. Baggage Capacity - 50 lb


66 posted on 09/29/2023 3:22:45 PM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Red Badger

OK, now you are just showing off. 😂


67 posted on 09/29/2023 3:25:22 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left )
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To: billorites
Writer in painfully ignorant of aviation as well as hunting.

I thought so, too. Looked him up expecting a soy-boy latte' sipping simp.

Looks like he may actually be a pilot. Certainly not a hunter.


68 posted on 09/29/2023 4:58:26 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Celtic Conservative
Overloaded, possibly imbalanced center of gravity.

Article says they strapped some of the meat in the passenger seat and the rest in the belly storage. It said they did not strap that down.

One guess would be that they pushed the meat against the forward bulkhead instead of the rear. When the pilot rotated the meat slid back throwing the nose up into a stall..

69 posted on 09/29/2023 5:08:01 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: VanShuyten
Two days before the crash, Peltola took five hunters, a guide and equipment…”

Had to have used a different plane to ferry them up there. He was in the Piper only to pick up the meat.

70 posted on 09/29/2023 5:11:28 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: SauronOfMordor

#4 He should have strapped a flying squirrel to the wing, not moose....


71 posted on 09/29/2023 7:50:56 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: PLMerite

Weight and balance is important. No way that plane handle one pilot and 500# of meat.


72 posted on 09/29/2023 10:16:02 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Got it!
(My checklist was out-of-date. Your effort prevented a serious moosestake. Thank you. )


73 posted on 09/30/2023 4:37:14 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: DallasBiff

Where’s yer sister?


74 posted on 10/02/2023 4:28:31 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SaveFerris

‘Specially if it was just on ONE strut.


75 posted on 10/02/2023 4:29:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: sphinx
Not 1st class anyway...
76 posted on 10/02/2023 4:33:09 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: VanShuyten

But was it the SAME plane?


77 posted on 10/02/2023 4:34:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: VanShuyten

[as seven people+equipment weigh less than one person+600 lbs of moose meat and antlers.]

“more” you mean?


78 posted on 10/02/2023 4:38:51 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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