Inhofe "Scared The Crap Out Of" Airport Workers

The Smoking Gun ^ | April 13, 2011

[EveningStar]

Newly released Federal Aviation Administration documents and audiotapes shed a scary new light on a bizarre incident late last year during which U.S. Senator James Inhofe landed his Cessna on a closed runway at a south Texas airport, scattering construction workers who ran for their lives as the politician’s plane hopscotched over them and six vehicles.

[okie01]

Yep, Stewart! Is it closed?

It's now Stewart International Airport (SWF). Don;t know if there is any military usage remaining.

[NonValueAdded]

“He come over here and started being like, 'What the hell is this? I was supposed to have unlimited airspace.'”

IOW "don't you know who I am?"
Answer: yeah, another perfumed prince.

[eddie willers]

So Carters Field is a possibility looming huh?

Not while I'm alive! LOL

[re_nortex]

...the greatest Mayor in Atlanta history.... William B. Hartsfield

How so, since he was a Democrat?

[Redbob]

"Of Course,,,Sky King and his twin Beach

No, Sky King had only one daughter, Penny...

[eddie willers]

How so, since he was a Democrat?

Trust me....a Southern Democrat circa 1960 would be what we now call a Republican.

Reagan was a Democrat back then too. As he famously said, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party.....they left me."

[re_nortex]

Trust me....a Southern Democrat circa 1960 would be what we now call a Republican.

Thank you!

I have long held that view but it seemingly carries little weight among the anti-Southerners in threads that pop up occasionally here on FR. A Southern Democrat, such as Senator James Eastland (a staunch anti-Communist), of that era is (wrongly) lumped into the same category as the Barney Franks of today.

[eddie willers]

We all thought that Max Cleland was just another in a long line of conservative Democrats like Richard B. Russell, Herman Talmadge, Sam Nunn and many, many others.

And THEN he voted with Tom Daschle to stop the Patriot act on the grounds that they should be Unionized and THEN did the unthinkable and unforgivable....he voted with the lefty Democrats in D.C. against the Boy Scouts!

I laugh when I read that he lost because of smears......ha!

He lost because he voted against the Boy Scouts...and you just don't do that down here.

Our legislation finally became a Republican majority. It didn't happen by Republicans running for office. It came because the candidates quit being Democrats and changed their affiliation to Republican.

[fireman15]

This happened over six months ago. The aviation press covered it differently than this article. He made mistakes. He didn't check the NOTAMs ahead of time. He didn't notice the Xs on the runway until he was already committed to landing. The airport is uncontrolled, but he had been on the radio with a nearby controller who gave him some type of confusing “clearance” to land. Fortunately, no one was hurt. He took appropriate actions afterward, the FAA investigated and he was given a not unusual “punishment”.

I have been flying for nearly twenty years. I own an airplane and a house on an airport. One should never take seriously anything you read about aviation in a non-aviation publication written by people who are not pilots. They never get it right ever, ever. This is simply an over dramatized hit piece in James Inhofe, nothing more, nothing less. If I had made the same mistakes I most likely would have received similar corrective action from the FAA, not “lost my ticket”.

[af_vet_rr]

Were I to do this my ticket would be yanked.

If any of us in this thread were to do that, we'd be in really hot water with the FAA, but putting aside the legal/licensing aspect, he put peoples' lives at risk.

In his case, the people don't stop looking like ants even after he lands....