Why I don't work on planes

[Billyman]

The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 26, 2001; 11:20 PM

PETALUMA, Calif. –– An unmanned aircraft somehow broke from its moorings as its owner worked on it and took to the air over a rural area north of San Francisco on Wednesday.

Authorities weren't sure where the Aeronaca Champion, a two-seat plane from the 1950s, was headed, or how it took off without a pilot.

The owner "was working on the engine, I guess, and it got away from him," said Sonoma County sheriff's spokesman Phil Coughlin.

Police suspect the plane has crashed, but hadn't found any evidence of it by Wednesday night.

The sheriff's office dispatched helicopters to look for wreckage east of Petaluma, about 40 miles northwest of San Francisco, but later called off the search due to darkness.

The plane had less than 15 gallons of fuel, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and would not likely have been able to stay in the air for long.

© 2001 The Associated Press

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[Cruise Director]

With my luck, that plane would have flown just far enough to crash into my house.
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[SatansLeftHand]

i don't work on planes because i don't have an A&P or an IA, let alone my private pilot's certificate(yet). i do, however, occasionally get to help out with paint stripping and the like with an airframe & powerplant technician i know.


EDIT: eyE caIn't sPeeL
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[This message has been edited by SatansLeftHand (edited 12-27-2001).]

[disturbed]

I am considering on starting to get my private pilots license soon but the lack of $$$ makes it a little hard. All in all, I think my dad paid about $2000 for his, not including the plane he got.

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[Mudflap]

<FONT COLOR="Orange">I'm going to start taking piloting lessons in my dad's Cesna after the new year.</FONT c>

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[Skeet]

I'm going to crash all of your planes into all of your houses.

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[zim]

yet we manage to crash the newer ones...

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