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Tailspin gaining notice
As many of you know, I have written a screenplay adaptation of my book Scapegoat. The title of the screenplay is Tailspin. I also like the tag: A Mystery at 39,000 Feet. While I’ve been busy pitching the screenplay through various methods, I’ve also entered the screenplay into several screenplay
A Pilot’s Story
A few months ago, a pilot in Australia, Rod Lovell, contacted me about a book he wrote titled From Hero to Zero. The book details his experience ditching a DC-3 shortly after takeoff, the subsequent investigation, and the effect of that investigation on his aviation career. Having written a book
A Flight Attendant Prank Gone Wrong
I’m sure you heard by now that a Southwest Airlines flight attendant has filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines for causing her emotional distress. Her claim is that two Southwest pilots had secretly placed a hidden camera in the bathroom and was live streaming video to the cockpit. Now I
What a real hero looks like
Yesterday was the forty-ninth anniversary of the ditching of ALM Flight 980. I was flying and unable to post anything, but I did come across a Facebook post by a gentleman who happened to be a flight attendant at ALM years after the accident. His name is Angelo Davelaar. Angelo
A Mystery at 39,000 Feet
Forty years ago today Boeing was at the center of another mystery. It was on this day April 4, 1979, that a Boeing 727 unexpectedly rolled over while in cruise and plummeted nearly 39,000 feet before the crew was able to pull out of the dive. What happened? Did the
Was a lack of experience a factor in the Ethiopian 737 Max crash?
Would you be comfortable having surgery performed by a first-year medical student? Probably not. How about getting on an airplane with a first officer whose experience level is only one step above that of a student pilot? That was the situation on the recent Ethiopian 737 Max crash. Now it