Rich Ahrens wrote:
Newps wrote:

Margy Natalie wrote:
As I recall these idiots were trying to shoot an eagle. IMHO they
deserved to go down. They also had picked up the aircraft at one
airport, flown to another airport to pick up their buddies and the
beer, then went flying...


You haven't recalled one thing right so far. There was no alcohol,
no other people involved. And hunting eagles from a plane? That
doesn't even make sense. Hunting coyotes from aircraft is an
everyday event out here.

Nope, she has it dead on, except that it was a hawk instead of an
eagle. The whole story is documented in the book "They Called It Pilot
Error" by Robert L. Cohn.

Ah - thanks for the source! Sad to say, though, that according to the
reviews of that book on www.amazon.com, Cohn's account may be a work of
fiction. It appears Cohn allegedly states in the forward of that book that
the book is a work of fiction - despite the subtitle claiming the opposite.