Originally Posted by
626DM
There is one other topic that I don't think is receiving enough attention.
If the reports are true that Cline's daughter had alcohol poisoning that was serious enough to medivac, it very much could have been a life and death situation. The fact that so many people were on the plane leads me to believe that it could have very well been a panic situation. I find it hard to believe that the passengers were patiently, quietly sitting in the passenger compartment. I could easily immagine screaming, crying, and outright chaos.
Black Hole liftoft, short flight preparation, billionaire owner onboard, chaos in the passenger compartment. I am not sure that any of us pilots could reliably pull that off, or should even try. However, if it truly was a life and death situation, I am not sure as a pilot how you say no.....
I wonder if the "eyewitness" Mr McIntosh could confirm if anyone was ill prior to departure? In the various press articles he didn't mention the daughter being ill, just that the pilot waited half an hour for the passengers to arrive after the helicopter landed on the island helipad.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/06/witnes...from-wreckage/