"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message ...
: The fact that he's from California might explain why they went up the East
: river. He might not have known the area well enough to know that they were
: heading into a box canyon.
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: Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)
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Plenty of box canyons in CA that have planes in them, but those don't make the news like this one....