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A Bad Day

I have lots to write about but two things are keeping me from it.

First, I'm covered with a rash from exposure to poison oak.

Second, on Sunday, this happened down the street and I havent quite recovered from the shock of it. For the record, we are 10 miles from the nearest airport, and not in the flight pattern of any airport or near any sort of aircraft navigation beacon. People here accept the local train yards as a major potential threat to life and property, but not aircraft. When you pause to think of ways that you children might die, you never think that its possible that it will be while they are safe at home in their own bed as a result of a one in a million chance that passing an aircraft just happens to fall out of the sky right into your house. Especially,when a passenger on the crashed aircraft was one of the neighbors as well.

Yeah, as a pilot and a person who has built a homebuilt aircraft I have something to say about the event, but for right now I'm utterly speechless. I'll be back as soon as I find a gallon of benadryl for my skin and some quiet reflection to calm whats going through my mind right now.

Posted @ February 13, 2006 10:48 PM | Current Affairs

Comments

God be with you, and yours, in this time. Sorry about the loss of your friend.

Posted by: Spiny Norman at February 14, 2006 02:48 PM

People always do seem to be able to find unusual ways to leave this mortal coil... Proof, I think, that when your number is up, it's up.

Posted by: Igotbupkis at February 17, 2006 12:54 AM

Every house/apt I've ever lived in had an airport "around the corner", most often Newark (starting back before jets, when the DC-3s had to come in under cloud cover and you'd wonder if they'd clear your TV antenna).Now we're outside Centennial airport, SE of Denver. There was a B-1 doing touch-and-goes a few years ago (pilot's family was in area and this was the last flight before he retired - had all the okays he needed and the press had let us know ahead of time). That was impressive; it's the corporate jets that scare the crap out of me! Prayers go out to your neighbors.

Posted by: OldeForce at February 20, 2006 11:25 PM