Corky Scott wrote:

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 02:20:25 GMT, Philip Sondericker
wrote:

I was thinking about this recently, and I was trying to determine
exactly what the effects would be on a small plane flying into an ash
cloud.

I recall reading a first hand experience of exactly what you are
describing.

Hi Corky,

the story you related is in my memory as well. About ten years ago, I
used to read flying stories from a gopher server. This was called the
"rec.aviation archive". It had a collection of around 50 great stories,
among them the Mount St. Helens one. Unfortunately, I have been unable to
locate this information ever since. The closest I came was the following
old posting but the link in there does not work anymo
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...ercury.mcs.com
Does anybody know a new location of the mentioned site?

There were some other gems among the stories, too. I recall vividly a
visit to a Concorde cockpit and the famous Cessna hijack story (still
online today at http://www.prime-mover.org/Personal/travis.txt).


Greetings,
Markus