[Spridgets] Put Pelosi on an EMB

[John Innis]

I'm not sure what your point here is, besides wishing a horrible death
on the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.  The
Propeller that malfunctioned and its control system were made in the
USA and FAA approved.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> When the first EMB's came over from Brazil the props were not dialed in
> correctly.  Sen. Hightower lost his life taking a short political jaunt on
> one, along with Astronaut Sonny Carter.
>
> *Found this:
>
> Atlantic Southeast
> Airlines<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Southeast_Airlines>
> Flight
> 2311
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Southeast_Airlines_Flight_2311>,
> crashed in Brunswick <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick,_Georgia>,
> Georgia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29> on April 5,
> 1991. The crash claimed the lives of all twenty-three people on board,
> including former U.S.
> Senator<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate> John
> Tower <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tower> of
> Texas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas>and
> astronaut <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut> Sonny
> Carter<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Carter>.
> This was due to propeller <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller> control
> failure.
> *
> Later on, working for a large corporation, I used to fly on EMB's out of
the
> Atlanta hub for a short jump to
> Chattanooga.
>
> Two rows of seats to one side, one row of seats on the other.  Kind of a
> different design - no doubt built by the manufacturer who came in with the
> lowest bid.
>
> Flight attendants?  Not really.  Just like on a Fairchild 16 passenger (I
> flew on one of those at least once a week with a job I had managing the 11
> Western States for the same company) - - - the "flight attendant" was
> comprised of a cassette that was plugged into a cassette player with
> instructions played through the airplane.
>
> The pilots looked like they were barely old enough to have their drivers
> licenses - real nice guys - but super young guys who were making their way
> up the ranks to fly full size commercial jets.
>
> Fun times!
>
> Also for more and a pic of this unusual plane (at least a unusual one for
> me) see:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_120_Brasilia
>
> Kirk
> 59BE
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