You guys crack me up, fair dinkum !! we'll have to organise a get together some time..... (read.. piss up/punch up) and swap yarns.
FWIW I was at Richmond that fateful morning...fog what fog? Blame, well blame goes to Lady Destiny.
Des, FWIW you won't find a bigger supporter of the PA31 than myself.
A mighty aircraft which carried our RPT on its back for decades. An aircraft which could bite if mismanaged and an aircraft which must be maintained to a very high standard, and an aircraft which must be retired on expiration of the airframe fatigue life. Like everything ....they wear out.