Plane Crash

            A plane crashed into a house in a Mississippi neighborhood late Tuesday.  It killed all three people on the plane and injured a resident of the home.  The single engine plane had just taken off from the Hawkins Field Airport  when it began to falter.  One of the three men on the plane was a flight instructor, and another of the three was just 15 hours away from getting his pilot license.  They were going to a Federal Aviation Administration safety conference just 25 miles away.

            The owner of the plane described the plane as being in “mint condition”. Well, it obviously wasn’t.  I’m sure he did a standard safety check on the plane before they took off, but if I was flying, I would double, maybe even triple check the plane before I took off.  Once you’re in the air, and anything goes wrong, there is basically nothing you can do.  If you are in a plane, and something goes wrong, there is a good chance you’re not going to make it out alive.  This is one of those things that you can’t go lightly on.  You have to be 100% positive about every single little detail.

            Honestly, I don’t even see why they flew.  It was 25 miles away.  They spent way more money and probably went through way more trouble flying than driving.  It probably took more time to fly as well.  They had to get the plane out, do the inspections, be cleared to take off, actually fly there, land the plane, park the plane, and then somehow get to the place of the meeting.  It just makes no sense to me why they would go through more trouble and money than they would have to.