Dinner and some wine.


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Lorenzo

GT Owner
Mark II Lifetime
Dec 28, 2008
626
U.S.A.
A friend of mine asked me to go flying in a plane he just bought,

Another friend asked me over for dinner and a glass or two of wine,

I chose the wine, This is what happened two min after take off.
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Hope everyone made it thru OK. You should probably head to Vegas, your luck seems to be on the good side!!!

Larry
 
Wow

I will take wine, and dinner over that anytime! Was your friend OK?

Happy
 
Looks like an old airplane. What was it, a Luscombe? Hope no one was hurt!
 
Glad you made the right choice!!!! Hope all are well

John
 
:eek YIKES!!! :eek

IS EVERYONE ALRIGHT????????


I now can no longer say I've never heard of an instance where alcohol has played a role in SAVING someone's butt! :willy



(...'Sorry, BONY).
 
FlorIdaho Chris said:
Looks like an old airplane. What was it, a Luscombe? Hope no one was hurt!
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Good eye it's a 1947 Luscombe.

As for Jim not so good, He lost power shortly after takeoff and tryed to turn it back to the runway, it stalled and he corkscrewed straight in to an unpicked corn field. He actually crawled out and called it in himself, he had no idea where to tell them he was, they found him by the use of GPS through his phone. He layed there an hour and 20 min before the helocopter found him. He has a broken sturnam, broken ribs, collapsed and severed lung, ruptured spleen,broken leg, his left leg was forced upward causing it to dislodge his hip from the socket breaking his pelvis, several deep lacerations accross his face and arms,and worst of all a tear in the main arterial vessel leaving the heart. With all that wrong can you believe he was actuall able to talk to me and describe how the whole thing happened? Ironicly they flew him to the very hospital where he works as an anesthesiologest. He is being watched over and cared for very well.
 
Thank God you weren't in the passenger seat.......

Hope your friend heals quickly
 
Four years ago I told my wife that I wanted to learn how to fly and buy an airplane. She insisted on a fast exotic car because its safer. One year later I bought the GT and then showed her the statistics.

I wish your friend a speedy recovery.
 
you are a very lucky man.
 
You are not helping my mild fear of flying. :frown

I hope your friend has a quick recovery to full health.
 
skyrex said:
You are not helping my mild fear of flying. :frown
I hope your friend has a quick recovery to full health.
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I like your avator.

He is also a skydiver, comeing up on 3000 loged jumps. if he pulls through this i assume it will be a long time before he will jump again.
 
Wow.... that's the kind of decision that you're grateful for every day.

Was he alone in the plane?

Hope he makes a good recovery....
 
Lorenzo said:
I like your avator.

He is also a skydiver, comeing up on 3000 loged jumps. if he pulls through this i assume it will be a long time before he will jump again.
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I have a little over 3,300 jumps and used to instruct. The funny thing is no fear of flying before I started jumping, but I got so used to getting out of the plane that having to stay in is slighly unnerving.

He will pull through and be back up in the air. Jumpers and pilots are a hardy lot.
 
Yeah, my wife says the same thing, no airplane after a friend and 3 of his buddies died in a crash. He seemed so careful but as it turned out he was flying over weight and in IFR conditions when he was only VFR rated. It is interesting how many crashes are due to pilot error, it is the majority of them.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp

No motorcycles either. Or helicopters. But cars, I'm good there.
 
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Lorenzo said:
I like your avator.

He is also a skydiver, comeing up on 3000 loged jumps. if he pulls through this i assume it will be a long time before he will jump again.
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He'd pbly be well advised NOT to jump again after all the trauma he suffered this time around. No telling what a second severe accident would end up costing him. (I don't ride motorcycles anymore for that very reason.)


BM SoCal said:
No motorcycles either. Or helicopters. But cars, I'm good there.
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Mayhaps you'd best not check the death/injury/crash rates involving cars, then, BM! You might end up WALKING! ('Course, then there are those pesky PEDESTRAIN stats to consider! :wink)
 
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