On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:28:40 -0500, Big John wrote:

On the Express crash. Do you remember 5-10 years ago one of the new
'plastic' birds crashed on way to Osh. Investigation showed that pilot
(a key man and salesman for company) had loaded the bird down with
brochures and other paper items and bird was way over max gross. He
took off from a field with a pretty high density altitude and crashed
either from overload or bad CG. Wonder if something similar happened
to the Express?

Don't know yet, of course, but that previous crash was an Express as well.
The crash ended the previous incarnation of the company.

The NTSB online report is pretty terse, but it doesn't mention CG being an
issue.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...12X23819&key=1

Ron Wanttaja