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Fuel loss lands plane in Fountain field
Gazette (Colorado Springs) ^
| 05/28/09
| Maria St. Louis-Sanchez
Posted on 06/01/2009 11:33:08 AM PDT by DFG
From 1977 to 1979, the retired Air Force colonel commanded the 46th Aerospace Defense Wing at Peterson Air Force Base. For decades he has been a flight instructor, owning his own school and even serving on the city's airport advisory board.
Perhaps this kind of history makes Thursday's incident just a little embarrassing.
His plane ran out of gas.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: aviat; husky; peterson
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posted on
06/01/2009 11:33:08 AM PDT
by
DFG
To: DFG
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posted on
06/01/2009 11:36:28 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't have to say much.)
To: DFG
Come on, Col, you can do better than that.
Jeez.
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posted on
06/01/2009 11:39:27 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: DFG
I can eeasily beat that.
I was crash fire Rescue till last year at AFW.
I made an incident where a retired Col. landed wheels up with his young grandson aboard.
After a fly by he circled and landed and forgot one little step.
To: DFG
Happens to the best ...
My low fuel alarm went off about two weeks ago.
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posted on
06/01/2009 11:47:00 AM PDT
by
OldNavyVet
(Irrationality has in it the essence of evil)
To: DFG
Is he embarrassed he ran out of gas or failing to teach his student basic pre-flight? What is worse
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posted on
06/01/2009 11:55:34 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't have to say much.)
To: DFG
It wasn’t fuel loss (like it leaked out), it was fuel exhaustion, he just ran out of gas.
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:08:05 PM PDT
by
scooter2
(IMPEACH OBAMA NOW !)
To: OldNavyVet
“Happens to the best ...”
And the worst as well (present company excluded, of course). ;D
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:08:39 PM PDT
by
Habibi
("We gladly feast on those who would subdue us". Not just pretty words........)
To: DFG
A salty old guy that I used to fly with told me years ago that "Three most useless things to a pilot were fuel left in the gas truck; altitude above you; and ideals you hadn't thought of yet".
God rest his sole. I took that adage to heart.
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:13:57 PM PDT
by
River_Wrangler
(Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
To: Habibi
“Happens to the best ...”
And the worst as well (present company excluded, of course). ;D
Obama had an out of fuel landing? I never even knew he flew!
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posted on
06/01/2009 12:15:13 PM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
To: DainBramage
A plane made a an emergency landing in NW Louisiana on a highway. He ran out of gas and forgot to switch tanks. ;0)
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posted on
06/01/2009 2:19:05 PM PDT
by
seemoAR
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