littlewheelinback wrote:The Tri-motor thing must be an inside joke...

They are synonymous with "corrugated."

Jaerl wrote:Really, 6 hours into a 3 hour flight??? Maybe he change is destination and decided to go to Hawaii instead.

Thats as long as the case of beer lasted.

I just didn't make the connection with the Corrugated sheet metal at the crash scene...just dense.

littlewheelinback wrote:I just didn't make the connection with the Corrugated sheet metal at the crash scene...just dense.

That's ok , we all have our dense moments. As long as we don't have them in the air

GumpAir wrote:One of my own, and several work airplanes are no more. Always a weird feeling to look at wreckage of an airplane you spent so much time in.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief ... 4304&key=1

Gump

Flying 115 miles offshore to try and get back under cloud?

More like fly 200 miles with the compass on the big W instead of the big E, and stay completely head up ass until the moment you die. If I had been that guy's passenger he would have been dead before the airplane hit the water.

Gump

It should read "a total lack of aeronautical judgement"