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Originally Posted by MattCFII  I think I heard that story when I was a student at Vincennes University. The way I heard it was that the student and instructor were practicing turns about a point in his general area. The rest as you stated, he was mentally unstable and shot the plane. Supposedly, the instructor was hit in the leg but as ok and the plane was still available for rent at one of the SW IN with the patch job visible. It was told as a reason not to do fly low over people's houses for too long because they might start calling the FAA or even shooting at you. |
Yea, I forgot about where he got shot in the leg. I didn't know you could still rent it as MillionAir went out of buisness years ago as I understood it. At least their hangar wasn't there anymore before I moved to Indy in '97. A side note about the guy who shot the plane... He was a millionaire. But because he was psycho, he never had his house rebuilt, he kept his money literally buried in jars all around his yard, and supposedly had to scare away "treasure hunters" who he thought was "charlie".
I'm just glad someone could verify the story because everyone always thinks i'm a fibber when I tell the story! LOL
Hope you can get things worked out and keep us informed on what works for you. I know it's gotta be hard doing the preflight let alone in the aircraft...