Anyone seen the keys?
The stealing the of keys deal was always a chance among some of the more hard core and acid trippin' skydiver types. I actually made a casual mention over the bar that if it ever happened to me and I found myself trolling along without a functioning engine that I would simply point the old bird out towards the deserted area south of the field and jump out myself (wearing a jump pilot rig of course). That would leave me with a good long skydive to talk about and the bonus would be that the club would be without a jump aircraft forever more. Naturally the insurance company would receive a full report from me informing them of the events leading up to the crash. In all honesty, there was no way I would ever risk trying to force land a crapped out old cessna when I could have a comfy parachute ride back to earth.
Never heard any further mention of that trick for some reason.
cheers
Gin