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pinboy3niner

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6. One NTSB Chairman had an answer for aircraft

Reply to LiberalElite (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 1, 2013, 12:51 PM

Dec 2013

Chairman Jim King, a Carter appointee, used to say he always sits in the back of the plane. When asked why, he'd say: "Have you ever heard of a plane BACKING into a mountain?"

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One NTSB Chairman had an answer for aircraft pinboy3niner Dec 2013 #6

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