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Mystery of pilot's metal CLIPBOARD crammed with aviation documents that fell from the sky in New York City suburb
Adam Rosenberg, a pilot and Federal Aviation Administration examiner, told NBC New York that while it is possible the aviator in question forgot the clipboard on top of a wing before flight, it is unlikely that the item would have stayed in place during takeoff. Rosenberg added that it’s unusual, but not unheard of, for an item to fall out of a plane if the cockpit door was accidentally left ajar, or if the plane has an exposed cockpit. (www.dailymail.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
..."the unusual projectile, believed to belong to a pilot"....really, ya' think?...
Nah..conspiracy set up..was all a set up.
I love conspiracy theories.
Changes your mindset...not sure it is a good change. I was much happier as an innocent freshman.
Talking about objects being ejected from airplanes, I have a story (true as I was there at the time) about an infamous flight examiner in South Africa. Infamous because very few candidates passed his check rides at the first attempt. (I was one of them...) He was conducting a check ride in a C210 with a pilot of equally strong personality. During the instrument let down he kept on knocking the guy with his briefcase. Eventually the pilot lost his cool and said, "What the hell do you think you're doing?" to which he replied.."I'm testing you to see what you do under duress.". Well, he just opened himself up to what he received. The pilot opened the window, grabbed the guy's briefcase and threw it out the window. "That's what I do under duress", was his reply. Well I understand that he passed his test and the examiner mellowed somewhat from that point on.
I doubt the clipboard would have hurt much the way it would have come down. Now that 3 pound chunk of lead is another story. It wouldn't have hurt much either. It would have been instant lights out. I have two theories with the clipboard. It was left on a surface of an aircraft and the strap snagged something keeping it on the aircraft until after takeoff only to come off later when air patterns around it changed. The other option is that it belongs to a helicopter pilot and he/she is very lucky it didn't get into the tail rotor.