I have a hard time believing these guys decided to taxi 4 miles for $hits and giggles. I can only speculate that they determind is would be easy on the aircraft and less stress then landing and taking off on unimproved strips i.e. hard packed snow drifts.Mick G wrote:I can't understand everyone attacking crazyaviator for the .."cowboy mentality" statement. A 4nm taxi off strip on uneven and unimproved terrian, fully loaded is just that....cowboy mentality. Unless someone can somehow explain this and justify this reckless decusion by the flight crew, it represents a complete failure of judgement and is seemingly reckless imo.crazyaviator wrote:My apologies, I cannot verify the authenticity of the rumour nor can anyone know for sure what had happened. My reply was in context to the DC-3 pilots taxiing over unimproved terrain with the consequences of an incident compounding in such a remote region ,,,, cowboy mentality. I did not intend to sully anyones reputation
As far as JC goes i have a hard time believing he was cowboying around down there. We all make mistakes and it could be one as simple as a wrong altimeter setting. We will never know as the decision to leave the crew remains and the aircraft were it sits has been made.
Rest in peace boys.