On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 03:14:37 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Dan Luke wrote:
"Another woman said it appeared that the pilot was trying to maneuver
the plane to miss hitting homes."

Does AOPA hand this out in scripts for eyewitnesses to read to the
press?

I don't think they have to. If you were coming down, wouldn't you try to avoid
something like a house? I was taught to hit the softest, cheapest thing I could
find if a crash is inevitable.


Unfortunately on final for 36 there are all these great big roofs.
Roofs at 30 feet and trees at 60 feet. Streets run cross ways with
some very short "courts" that run N/S. Of course our shortest runway
is 18/36 so on departure for 18 there is no place to go unless your
departure is at maximum effort so you could make a 90 degree turn for
the express way, unless you can make a 120 for 06. That sub appears
to be designed to leave no safe spots.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.