BNA Small Plane Crash

Murdoughnut said:
Here's my 1:45 odds scenario. Facing life in prison for child porn possession - departs Windsor either with a cadaver, or picks it up along the way. Sets a distant airport into the GPS (BNV). Bails out along the route and lets the plane fly itself, imagining it will flame out somewhere along the way. Plane reaches BNV and circles until it finally goes down. Plane has to burn to destroy the remains to the point of non-identification. Maybe he switched it to one tank, or kept some fuel source in the cabin. We've seen stranger scenarios.
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Oooooh...

I like this one. Please tell me you already have the screenplay complete and you simply need an executive producer, director, and casting manager.
 
thevideographer said:
CYPT > KBNA is 845nm. Absolute max range of a 172R is 700nm. Where did he stop for fuel?
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Perhaps 700nm with no winds. What were WA?

BTW, not to be a buzz kill but there's a dead pilot involved, so a degree of decorum would be appropriate. Unless this guy turned out to be a child predator, at which point we'll hang the charred skeleton in chains and put his head on a pike on the Nashville city wall.
 
tomokc said:
Perhaps 700nm with no winds. What were WA?

BTW, not to be a buzz kill but there's a dead pilot involved, so a degree of decorum would be appropriate. Unless this guy turned out to be a child predator, at which point we'll hang the charred skeleton in chains and put his head on a pike on the Nashville city wall.
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Agreed, for now.
 
greg1016 said:
That was an interesting read. He should have thought of the cadaver, or at least of putting a dummy in the pilot's seat and pointing the aircraft into the gulf.
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I think that was the plan, to have it crash in the Gulf and him be missing at sea. Plan was foiled due to poor fuel planning.
 
greg1016 said:
That was an interesting read. He should have thought of the cadaver, or at least of putting a dummy in the pilot's seat and pointing the aircraft into the gulf.
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I know the guy who bought that airplane nine years ago. He didn't even have a PPL, he bought it on eBay, and wanted us to train him in it. We declined for lack of airworthiness, and into the shop it went for 18 months. Still, it would be fun having a landing logged with that N number, so long as the mainfest matched for T/O and landing!
 
greg1016 said:
@Pilot Fighter I work a border sector. It is not ATCs job, nor are we trained, to identify potential ADIZ violations. If an unidentified aircraft is picked up on radar, we get a call from NORAD, and if we don't know who it is, they take over from there. We see many primary targets, some moving, some not. They could be anything from aircraft to boats to trucks to anomalous propagations or reflections. Identifying a primary target flying low at slow speed as a potential national security threat for a radar controller would be impossible. Sorry, but I don't like hearing about not doing our "jobs." It sounds to me like this guy was either trying to sneak in to BNA in the soup, or by coincidence his engine died over the airport. Another thing to consider is you don't need to be on an IFR clearance to fly by the instruments.
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Slow down.
I made no comment suggesting that ATC had any border control responsibilities. My reference to controllers doing their job was suggesting that controllers should have spotted an aircraft entering BNA controlled airspace. In my next post, I conceded that without any requests for clearances or known traffic, controllers shouldn't have been expected to stare at the scope.
 
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A man named Michael Callan of the same age has a criminal record dating back to the late 1990s in Windsor, including a number of violent bank robberies.


A Michael Callan was also facing charges in connection with a child porn crackdown by Windsor police last year. During a two-week period in late 2011, police allege he used his own laptop to openly watch pornography at Chapters bookstore in Devonshire Mall, and while riding a Transit Windsor Bus on two occasions.


Callan was previously sentenced to 12 years in prison after a yearlong crime spree between November 1996 and December 1997. He pulled several heists, including one where he pointed a handgun at the belly of a pregnant teller.


Callan’s 1997 arrest came after he ditched a stolen car not far from the Windsor Flying Club, entered the club carrying a bag, changed his clothes and left. Suspicious club members provided police with his name.

http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/1...h-was-supposed-to-be-landing-on-pelee-island/
 
Pilot Fighter said:
"In 2011 when he came back to us and asked us if he could re-join the club, the board discussed it and said well, who are we to judge? And in he comes. And he was allowed back into the club again.”
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There is great truth in the saying that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. It certainly seems to have held true in this case.
 
Houston said:
There is great truth in the saying that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. It certainly seems to have held true in this case.
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My bigger concern would be having someone in the club who might damage an aircraft, and not have the personal ethics to say anything about it.
 
Murdoughnut said:
My bigger concern would be having someone in the club who might damage an aircraft, and not have the personal ethics to say anything about it.
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I have to say I'm more concerned about the armed robbery and auto theft. Until he stole the plane, he might have been a flying club superstar.
 
Murdoughnut said:
My bigger concern would be having someone in the club who might damage an aircraft, and not have the personal ethics to say anything about it.
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....... or ....... when something happens and you start to wonder "as a memeber of this club or partnership, do I have a liability exposure for that event?"
 
Houston said:
....... or ....... when something happens and you start to wonder "as a memeber of this club or partnership, do I have a liability exposure for that event?"
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I would have liked to have been at this meeting. "He robbed a bank a gunpoint and stole a car, but he's a good pilot and a lot of fun around the hangar, any objections?"
 
Murdoughnut said:
My bigger concern would be having someone in the club who might damage an aircraft, and not have the personal ethics to say anything about it.
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Been through THAT one before! A pilot left the towbar attached to a 172, which popped into the prop while taxiing and was instantly turned into a tubular pretzel. The pilot immediately put the airplane back into the hangar and ordered an expedited replacement towbar from Cessna, but not before another pilot discovered the original one missing. The plane had already been flown by others. Engine teardown, prop overhaul, lots of paperwork and head scratching.
 
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