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“Ok, let’s see if we can get this overloaded mother off the ground!” It was an open mic gaffe by a pilot at LAX unwittingly transmitted to the passengers in the plane. It doesn’t take any imagination to understand how the passengers felt about the pilot’s assessment of the situation in which they were helplessly at his mercy. The maintenance of my venerable 1948 Stinson Voyager sometimes required an occasional visit to airplane “junkyards.” There is a glaring difference between these and auto junkyards which as an auto mechanic I frequented for years; the amount of blood to be found in wrecked airplanes. While seldom in evidence in wrecked autos the seats, control panels and windscreens of wrecked airplanes would often display a gory and copious amount of blood, stark evidence and mute testimony of how catastrophic airplane crashes are. Safety features in autos like padded dashes and airbags are absent in most small general aviation...
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