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2. It was terrible. He seemed like he was a really nice guy. The plane he bought

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Wed Nov 8, 2017, 12:28 AM

Nov 2017

was waaaay over his skill level, though. My brother, a pilot there in Florida, says those planes are deathtraps -- 4 people have been killed in them in just the past year, including one of the engineers who designed the thing. Halladay was a very new pilot. It was like putting a 16-year-old in a Lamborghini.

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