If you have insurance, the company does not want you adding
extra personal injury risk, they insured for hull damage,
not decapitated mechanic and wrecked truck. The TV shows
won't pay for suicide pictures [yet].



"Owen" wrote in message
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| buttman wrote:
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| http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/
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| click on "emergency response to troubled plane"
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| An arrow tried to bounce the plane on the runway to get
the stuck
| landing gear to come down, but all it did was make the
other three
| gear get stuck in the down position.
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| Wow, the follow up report is much more exciting than the
landing!
|
| A flight school mechanic & pilot wanted to try the old
pull down the
| gear from a truck, because they had seen that work in an
Internet
| video. The airport manager and sheriff dept. disagreed
with that and
| the end result was the mechanic getting zapped with a Stun
Gun!
|
| I would agree that such a maneuver is far too risky for
the reward,
| although it has paid off in the past for others. Could
you fly the
| airplane perfectly 6 feet over the runway in a perfect
straight line
| without so much of a gust moving the plane? A foot or
two up or down
| and you could cause a lot injury. I wouldn't want to be
underneath
| risking my neck and arms to find out.
|
| http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?se...cal&id=5038872
|