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be late and I would be tired so I called
ahead and told my passengers to meet me
in Bluefield. It was a little after midnight
when I arrived. The weather wasn't too bad
but bad enough to require an instrument
approach. I was glad I had decided to meet
my passengers in Bluefield.
Putting on fuel and filing an IFR flight
plan back to Merritt Island took only a half
hour or so, and my three well-lubricated
passengers and I were off.
After takeoff, the tower released me to
departure control about the time I entered
the clouds. A minute or two after contacting
departure I lost communications. I turned the
com radios off and back on. I checked the circuit breakers. No good.
My clearance was to expect 9,000 feet
10 minutes after departure, so 10 minutes
into the flight I climbed to 9,000 feet from
my initially assigned altitude. I had already
squawked 7600. When the radios suddenly
started working after a couple of hours, I
contacted Jacksonville Center and was
asked twice who I was.
Later that day, I briefed the owner about
the radio problem. He said I could take the
airplane to Daytona for repairs, which I did.
After two days in Merritt Island, I
flew the owner and three others back to
Richlands. The owner informed me how
much he was going to pay me to fly for him.
I told him I wouldn't be taking the job. He
paid me for my time, reimbursed me for
my airline flight, and had me driven to TriCities for my flight back to Raleigh.
Sadly, the story doesn't end there.
A couple of weeks later I got a call from
the salesman who had sold the Cessna 310.
He told me the Danish pilot with four passengers aboard had flown the new 310
into the side of a mountain just outside of
Richlands. According to the NTSB report
the weather at the time was 700 feet overcast, raining, with wind of 250 degrees at 12
knots. The aircraft impacted terrain at 3,200
feet at 20:15 on February 28, 1974.
I can only surmise he didn't adequately
account for how much the 12 knots of wind
would stretch his teardrop-so much it no
longer fit within the valley.
AOPA
GARY DECK is an airline transport pilot who

lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

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