Now Now, is he a "jinx", or is he an extremely LUCKY person for not
having been killed in any of these crashes?

I witnessed my first crash ever at the Concord, NH, airshow last
summer.  A Steerman with a wingwalker (the pilot’s daughter) crashed
and burned right in front of me and my 8 year old daughter.  I hope to
never repeat the experience.

Mike Friedman, WB2WNX
Comm Glider
Inst Pvt ASEL
PA-28-160 N5540W "The Hershey Warrior"

>Craig, unless you’re with the NTSB or a professional accident
>reporter, you’ve attended WAY more than your share of accidents.
>The word "jinx" comes to mind.  It’s not that I wouldn’t want to
          ^^^^^^
>meet you, but please don’t visit Houston any time soon.  Oh, and
>I wouldn’t mind if you’d stay away from those Shuttle landings,
>too.  We have a hard enough time landing without engines.

>– Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/SD5, Space Biomedical Research Institute

        ^^^^^

Now, *this* is truly a case of the pot calling the kettle… ;-}

Brent Weathered                                      "next time u fly
Commercial, ASEMEL, IA, GIA-I, CFI-I                  take a kid…"
’49 Cessna 170 for class, Comanche 250 for fast!      35 Young Eagles!
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: I was here on that day. Infact I was at the airport that day. Got there
: about 7 minutes before it came in. I saw the whole thing. Assisted where
: I could. I went to my usual perch where I do most of my departure
: shoots at. It was a spectical that never really leaves your mind.  I’ve
: witnessed 3 such airliner crashes, saw a DC-10 in Dallas go off the
: Runway on the north end, and watch a Merlin Metro plow in at Austin Muni
: some years ago. I’ve seen numerous belly flops and such, but nothing
: like United 232. I was at the aftermath of the Easter L-1011 and 727
: crashes in dallas and though they were really bad scenes, 232 just
: really was a nasty scene. [...]

Craig, unless you’re with the NTSB or a professional accident
reporter, you’ve attended WAY more than your share of accidents.
The word "jinx" comes to mind.  It’s not that I wouldn’t want to
meet you, but please don’t visit Houston any time soon.  Oh, and
I wouldn’t mind if you’d stay away from those Shuttle landings,
too.  We have a hard enough time landing without engines.

– Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/SD5, Space Biomedical Research Institute
      kje…@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov  (713) 483-4368

     "The only way to make a difference in the world is to put ten
      times as much effort into everything as anyone else thinks
      is reasonable.  It doesn’t leave any time for golf or cocktails,
      but it gets things done."
         – Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

: In some other posts, at least one person made comments that
: suggest to me that an IFR-certified GPS receiver could be used
: in lieu of an ADF even though the approach procedure specifically
: states: "ADF-required".  Is this true?  What document(s) are the
: basis for this?

Twas me. I got the info from my CFII/Accident Prevention Counselor/Arnav GPS
owner. A GPS certified for "terminal" can be used to find iaf’s and other
parts of an approach (but not fly the approach itself – like past the faf
perhaps). I think this comes from the POH supplement for the GPS receiver/
installation. Will try to find out more.

dave allen – Fly because you love it.