Intersting tidbit about the Miami seaplane crash and fuel reserves

from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/

"One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."

Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
they would be within legal IFR (or even VFR) reserves if they really
take off without enough fuel to reach Havana. I wonder if they were
just saying that to discourage hijackers?

Bimini is approximately 50 nm from Miami. Havana is considerably farther
away.

Best regards,

Steve Robertson
N4732J 1967 Beechcraft Musketeer

xyzzy wrote:

from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/

"One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."

Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
they would be within legal IFR (or even VFR) reserves if they really
take off without enough fuel to reach Havana. I wonder if they were
just saying that to discourage hijackers?

"xyzzy" wrote in message
oups.com...
from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/

"One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."

Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
they would be within legal IFR (or even VFR) reserves if they really
take off without enough fuel to reach Havana. I wonder if they were
just saying that to discourage hijackers?


I'm not so sure they file IFR very often.

--
Scott

They're an air carrier, aren't they? All such operations are conducted
under IFR.

tscottme wrote:
"xyzzy" wrote in message
oups.com...

from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/19/miami.crash.ap/

"One of its airplanes was hijacked to Cuba in 1974. Since then, the
company has had a policy of not carrying enough fuel to reach Havana."

Now Havana is not that far from Miami. I have a hard time believing
they would be within legal IFR (or even VFR) reserves if they really
take off without enough fuel to reach Havana. I wonder if they were
just saying that to discourage hijackers?



I'm not so sure they file IFR very often.

Paul Folbrecht wrote:
They're an air carrier, aren't they? All such operations are conducted
under IFR.

No, they're not.

"Paul Folbrecht" wrote in message
...
They're an air carrier, aren't they? All such operations are conducted
under IFR.



I've been leaving KFLL when I was IFR, getting a clearance, and when Chalks
was ready to depart with passengers, and I know they departed VFR. Now
granted that was early '90s, and things may have changed since. Sometimes
they departed VFR and sometimes they departed IFR, at least from the airport
I flew from and worked at.

--
Scott

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