ex-wife crashes
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steven f

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538 posts

229 months

Saturday 22nd November 2008
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My ex-wife started taking flying lessons about the time our divorce started and she got her license shortly before our divorce was final, later that same year.

Yesterday afternoon I got a phone call, informing me that she narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was piloting. Seems she was forced to make an emergency landing somewhere in bedford because of bad weather.

Thank God the kids weren't with her.

The FAA issued a preliminary report, citing pilot error: She was flying a single engine aircraft in IFR (instrument flight rating) conditions while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight rating) rating.

The absence of a post-crash fire was most likely due to insufficient fuel on board.

No one on the ground was injured.

The photograph below was taken at the scene to show the extent of damage to her aircraft.

She was really, really lucky.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/Helfa/crash...

Stu R

21,627 posts

244 months

Saturday 22nd November 2008
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hehe

MonkeyBusiness

4,240 posts

216 months

Saturday 22nd November 2008
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Ha ha!

Tonto

2,983 posts

277 months

Saturday 22nd November 2008
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Chortle!

bob1179

14,138 posts

238 months

Saturday 22nd November 2008
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Guffaw.

chr15b

3,467 posts

219 months

Saturday 22nd November 2008
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very good biggrin

someones not bitter at all wink

Rotorspeed

441 posts

221 months

Saturday 22nd November 2008
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biglaugh

POORCARDEALER

8,663 posts

270 months

Saturday 22nd November 2008
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Naughty girl, she will get a right spanking from the AA................I sens e you are a bit pleased? smile