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Old December 4th 07, 02:22 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
John Mazor[_2_]
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Default Man stole plane to impress girlfriend


"Tina" wrote in message
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He most likely learned how to start the engines from a sim game. Now
if his sim had pedals, he might also have learned how to steer it. He
may have a thousand hours of sim time, after all, and that would make
him an expert, right?


Now that's a subtle but specific insult if I ever heard one.

On Dec 4, 1:31 am, Kingfish wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:00 am, Mxsmanic wrote:

He was able to start the engines and roll for a while along the ground, but
couldn't steer and ended up in a soybean field, after doing $160,000 of damage
to the twin-engine aircraft:


Just when I thought we were safe from drunk idiots stealing
airplanes... How does someone like that (drunk idiot non-pilot) figger
out how to start the engines? A non-pilot probably wouldn't know about
the POH.

The real shame of it is that the twin now has damage history (assuming
it didn't before, of course) affecting its value just because Darwin
hadn't yet caught up to that fuggin moron..