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Old 27th Jan 2020, 10:28
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Arfur Dent
 
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Absolutely agree 76fan. Those execs and/or celebs using light aircraft or helicopters to get to major events like weddings and baseball games etc don't seem to allow much contingency to allow for delays due to weather. Virtually an entire family was killed recently in UK when a helicopter crashed in bad weather near Snowdonia en route to a wedding in Ireland (Dublin - I think). Imagine the pressure on the owner/pilot as the weather closed in. How could all 6 of them (maybe more- can't remember) miss the wedding?? He simply HAD to get past that high ground. Don't think he even tried to go around it. Went IFR and crashed. No survivors.
Why didn't they leave the day before? At least that would have afforded some options.
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