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I'll share a story my dear ol Dad tells of his days flying for TWA. I hope I don't screw it up Dad.
He flew the pacific as a captain on Boeing 707 freighters and troop transport duty during Nam. It was one of those late night stop overs at the bustling island of Guam. During the engine start of the number four engine they spooled it up but to no avail. It was then that he noticed that the ignitor breaker was poped or pulled. Before he could say anything more the flight engineer reached up and said I'll get it!and pushed it in. The fire ball could be seen half way around the world. My Dad said all he could see was the natives running as fast as they could away from the aircraft.
So that's my entry:
I'LL GET IT!
That's as sad a story as can be told and even more so when a child losses his or her's life. Like walking into a propeller of a running aircraft. No one ever knows the why. The owner of an engine shop I worked at was on carriers in WWII and watched several men just turn around and step into the whirling blades of Hellcats and the like during warm up. The deck would be full of spinning props. A friend of mine's wife was talking to him thru the window of a C-150 while it was idling and she turned around and walk right into the prop. She lived after having her arm reattached. Brain farts and airplanes don't mix.
How very sad and traject the loss of Canada's Snow Bird pilot in Montana.
"I you don't try that, you don't have a hair on your @*+.