Short Final: Guilty Conscience?

Credit: Piper Tri-Pacer Facebook page
Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • A grandchild and their fiancé chaperoned their elderly grandparents, with the WWII veteran grandfather using a wheelchair to board the flight.
  • The flight experienced a hard landing due to a significant crosswind.
  • Upon exiting, the Captain lightheartedly joked to the grandfather in the wheelchair, hoping his landing wasn't the cause of it.
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“My fiancé and I were chaperoning my 94-year-old grandparents on a flight to a vacation destination. Grandma walks just fine, but my World War II Marine veteran Grandpa had to use a wheelchair to get to his seat.

“There was a hefty crosswind and we landed rather hard (just like I always do in my Tri-Pacer). As we were heading down the aisle to exit, the Captain took a look at my Grandpa in his wheelchair and said, ‘Boy, I hope that wasn’t because of my landing!’”

–From IFR Magazine reader Jeff Muehl

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