Wreckage of Missing Cessna
 

RE:
The Cessna 152 that disappeared on route, from Inverness to Benbecula, in December 2000. Is there any more news?

Just read in todays paper the wreckage has been found quite high up a mountainside near Loch Torridon.

This is not relevant to Rumours & News.

Apparently.

Of course it is, it's news- being as it is in the papers.

Being a mite oversensitive, perhaps?

Raw Data,

You were saying?

Raw Data, you've fallen in to my sarcasm trap! As a time-served Pruner, perhaps you would post your opinion on this. I am MIGHTY sensitive about this one as I knew the fellow who died, & consider it EXTREMELY worthy of RELEVANCE in Rumours and News.

Moderators may I ask that you consider forming a forum for "Accidents & Incidents", or maybe this is a tad distasteful. I am sure this will gain many hits as loss of hull or worse still life will always attract the attention of pilots, be they private or commercial. In some agreement with your point, as a professional pilot I am sifting through Rumours & News most days finding nothing of any particular interest, & I know of several other professioanl pilots who think the same. However don't forget that it is many "professional" issues that are guilty of being "yawn-worthy".

Incidents such as a Cessna missing for over 2 months is, in my personal opinion only, a much more shocking and hence interesting thread. However I do take your point of it not "affecting our day to day lives as professional pilots"

Comments appreciated.

Raw Data please take time out to read the following & the penny will drop as to my problem here.

http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/For...ML/000200.html

The main problem is that nobody with an informed opinion will post, you will get a lot of (understandable) sentiment, and a lot of (potentially dangerous) conjecture. I'm not sure, overall that this is particularly helpful - perhaps some form of "condolence book" forum might be the solution, but I'm not sure how many people would welcome it. Personally when I've lost friends in flying accidents, I prefer to make my condolences less anonymously and more privately.

G

[This message has been edited by Genghis the Engineer (edited 26 February 2001).]

I have a slightly different take on all this: These sorts of threads get kicked out of 'Rumours & News' simply because they relate to light aircraft flown by PPLs.

Moderators, please correct me if this is a misunderstanding on my part.

Due to the sheer number of posts, we have to try and keep each forum focused on what it was set up for. If we didn't do this, chaos would result.

Rumours & News is for those events and news stories which directly affect the life of professional pilots. This thread was moved to the forum to which it belongs.

--PPD

These sort of events could affect the lives of professional pilots, especially in their infancy (the event not the pilot!) if a large land and air search was being carried out with the associated TRA's and all.
IMHO PPRUNE is being framented into far too many forums, surely BIZ JETS AND GA could be merged with PRIVATE FLYING. Hopefully there would be less chance of missing interesting or useful posts.
CRX.

[This message has been edited by CRX (edited 03 March 2001).]

So, 'CFIT' and 'Loss of Control in IMC' NEVER happens to a professional pilot?