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In a vacuum I suppose we could give Rusty the benefit of the doubt. But you have to consider the broader perspective of many other stories he told which also don't seem to be true. That is a fair point. Nelson became President of the church right around the time I started to distance myself from th...

Dr. W, I am not disputing the capability of the airplane to continue in level flight and climb. That was one of the first questions I had. I know some light training twins are not capable of maintaining level flight on one engine. But the Navajo is not most light twins. As you pointed out is most ce...

Lem, The in depth investigation by the FAA let the weasel words stand, and allowed them to be added to the CAB report? In my experience working in Aerospace, yes. In my interactions with government agencies, and in writing reports concerning failures, the wording that is used is chosen VERY carefull...

the pilot secured the affected engine and elected to continue to his destination while letting the fire burn. He then deplaned the passengers and put out the engine (oil) fire with a portable fire extinguisher.

If this guy worked for me I'd fire him (no pun intended).

That's irresponsible.

Dr. W, I respectfully suggest that you're splitting hairs with respect to the capabilities of twins with an engine out. When a twin has a single engine failure, it is an emergency. Piper designed the airplane to fly on one airplane, sure, but that doesn't change the fact that the airplane needs to l...

Strictly speaking it was a plate of dicks.

I stand corrected

And I just scrolled through about 20 pages from somewhere between 70 & 90. You guys lost me at eating bags of dicks. lol

There's some serious aviation discussion in there.

Dr. Moore, thank you for your response. If you map the flight path, they would have been at least 20 miles south of Delta at the time of the engine roughness / failure. I don't agree with this. Please see my detailed flight plan right up in the post above this. Here is the link to the flight plan I ...

OK - now that I'm not as salty from the forum eating my first post (that I had spent literally 30 - 45 minutes writing), I've decided to recreate it in part. This is my best guess at what the timeline would have looked like. 0:00 - Gate closes at KSCL - This is when airlines start the clock on their...

Hey everyone, I'm trying to get a handle on all the different versions of this story, so I started a google spreadsheet. Someone probably already did this... Here are the versions I'm tracking. Nelson's autobiography - 1979 - This description is VERY short. He doesn't go into much detail beyond, "I ...