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To: Huebolt

Your post makes no sense.

You say you worked at the American Airlines Flight Academy. That is located in Texas.

Thurman Munson trained in Wichita, Kansas.

Mr. Munson was the source of his own trouble. The airplane stalled on final approach.

The odds of a fatal accident in a small airplane are one in 500. Where did you get that number? I’ve been flying small aircraft for forty years with tens of thousands of flight hours. I train about two hundred pilots a year, many with experience similar to mine. The number of fatalities among my brethren are extremely few and far between.


42 posted on 06/12/2017 3:51:53 PM PDT by CFIIIMEIATP737
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737

The 1 in 500 was in a account I read written by a professional pilot. I also know that life insurance underwriters will ask applicants “Do you fly non-commercially?” They ask that for a good reason. I personally knew 3 pilots who died and a couple who crash landed with serious injuries.

Things have improved technically by light-years since then.

As for Texas, you are right. We had full Citation training there and I ‘heard’ he’d been there. Maybe not...


53 posted on 06/12/2017 4:23:45 PM PDT by Huebolt (Democraps need a diagnosis more than an explanation. Isn't there a pill?)
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737; Huebolt
I’ve been flying small aircraft for forty years with tens of thousands of flight hours. I train about two hundred pilots a year, many with experience similar to mine

"It's worse than that - CFIIIMEIATP737 is dead, Jim"

On the plus side, you'll still be able to vote Democrat, CFIIIMEIATP737... 😀

63 posted on 06/12/2017 4:56:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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