Ascend Charlie wrote:
...At my suggestion that he remain a private pilot and forget his commercial aspirations, he gave up, sold his H500, and went back to being a casual 747 driver - and soon after landed one wheels-up!!!
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Perhaps with the passing years, some of his functions had deteriorated to some extent - and this was confirmed by him landing a 747 wheels-up. Takes some leadership to do that.
Not to mention the two other guys in the cockpit being asleep...unless it was one of those single-pilot 74's the airlines keep pestering McBoeing to build. The fact that I hadn't heard about such an event does not mean that it did not happen. But...
Got a link?