This brand new airport has little if any security even though it is headquarters for Skywest Airlines. About three months ago a pilot and two pax took off in a Cessna and must have gone vertical after lift off. This was around 0100 in the mornng. No one new about the wreckage until the next morning when they found the smoldering Cessna and it's dead occupants at the end of the runway. BTW, the pilot was another regional F/O!
This kind of stuff gives the regulators so much fodder for more regulation that it's almost impossible to imagine where it might stop and the feds are already asking questions. Don't really know why this guy did not get airborne as he certainly was qualified. Imagine for one minute that this guy got airborne and flew down to LAS, less than 200 miles away and put the airplane into the side of some hotel. It would take the officials months to figure out who had committed the crime and in the mean time we would have beat the war drums to a new level.
Don't bet on the Air Force jumping to the rescue. No one would have even known that the guy got off the ground at St Georege until it was to late to have done anything to have prevented the outcome.
BTW again. As i write this the spector or some terrorist learning to fly is once again the lead story on what passes for national news here in the US. Truely pathetic but the look at our excuse for a govermemt.
Last edited by Spooky 2; 19th Jul 2012 at 01:29.