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MADem

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3. My thoughts go back to Payne Stewart....

Reply to MoonRiver (Original post)

Fri Sep 5, 2014, 02:01 PM

Sep 2014

It sounds like a decompression issue. Was the passenger (Glazer) also the pilot (he apparently knew how to fly) or was there a pilot AND pax, I wonder?

I'm sure we'll know more soon. Very sad, indeed.

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Private jet crashes in Jamaica! Not known how many were on board. [View all] MoonRiver Sep 2014 OP

Was this the same jet followed by F-15's earlier? Cali_Democrat Sep 2014 #1

I believe so. MoonRiver Sep 2014 #2

My thoughts go back to Payne Stewart.... MADem Sep 2014 #3

Apparently he was the pilot. MoonRiver Sep 2014 #4

Off Jamaica, not in Jamaica Brother Buzz Sep 2014 #5

It wasn't a jet either. Jenoch Sep 2014 #7

I'm not a pilot, nor do I play one on television, but.... Brother Buzz Sep 2014 #9

That doesn't make it a jet. Jenoch Sep 2014 #15

It's actually a TBM700 Sassysdad Sep 2014 #6

I recommend that avionics specialists create a program that ladjf Sep 2014 #8

Those are pretty cool ideas (nt) Orrex Sep 2014 #11

They are doable. I could develope the system myself. ladjf Sep 2014 #12

Questions (I'm not a pilot): Blue_Tires Sep 2014 #14

My heart goes out to the family. nt littlemissmartypants Sep 2014 #10

It crashed 16 miles off Port Antonio which is North Eastern Jamaican malaise Sep 2014 #13

Good report here malaise Sep 2014 #16