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• Anonymous

  RIP, Don.  You will be sadly missed.  You were definitely one-of-a-kind.  Soar high and ride your Harley forever free.

• Anonymous

  terrible loss. prayers for all!

• Anonymous

  So sad to hear the news about Don.

  Another Penobscot Island Air crash ?!? About time for the FAA to shut this travesty down. Seriously, something is definitely not right to have so many crashes.

• Anonymous

  bravest and best pilots working hard to get supplies in and injured and sick off the islands, I salut your quiet bravery for surely you are the only ones in the arena while the cowards stand in the stands commenting  knowing nothing of reality.

• Anonymous

  Sounds like it was way to windy to be flying ‘supplies’ in. 

• Anonymous

  i know alot about PIA, and you are right, these are great pilots.

• Anonymous

  “travesty”?  Sounds like you have a personal vendetta.  What is your Personal Reason that you want Penobscot Air  shut down thus denying the Islands a service they heavily depend on?  

• Anonymous

  Winds were nasty at the time of crash, gusting out of the northwest.  Focus will be on whether the maximum allowable crosswind component of the aircraft was exceeded.  Assuming a landing on runway 36, with winds gusting to 44, the crosswind component could easily have been exceeded.  While it is easy to Monday morning quarterback, questions will be raised why the pilot did not just go around and land elsewhere.  No delivery of boxes is worth a life, when a brief delay might promote safer conditions.  There are old pilots and bold piots, but few old bold pilots.