Be nice to your spouse!

[Fielder]

Avoid making that person disgruntled!

Scene 1:

" Police arrested Duane Youd about 7:30 p.m. Sunday following a domestic dispute in American Fork Canyon.

Scene 2:

" Duane Youd was released from the Utah County Jail on bail, then followed procedure in requesting a police escort to retrieve belongings at the home at 584 E. Canyon Road about midnight. "

Scene 3:

"A short time later, Duane Youd flew a Cessna 525 citation jet belonging to a company he had worked for from the Spanish Fork airport and crashed it into his home about 2:30 a.m."

https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46375241&nid=148

 

[CockpitGlass]

I'm afraid the link is not working.

Nevertheless, what a strange story. Must have been one hell of a "dispute" for him to crash a plane into the house...

[Ron Attwood]

Sometimes wives can go just a bit too far.

Mind you, he doesn't look like he'd need much pushin'

[Guest John_Cillis]

Never heard this story either.  When I took a driving refresher course after a minor fender bender what stuck the most was "a car is a two ton weapon".  I have driven differently ever since, with my eyes out the window, staying with the flow of traffic, not worrying if my car drifts over the limit or slightly under.  An airplane makes a horrible weapon or means of self inflicted injury, because of innocents on the ground especially.

John

[Patco Lch]

Seems people these days just can't take life's turbulence without going totally bonkers. No anchor or inner stability.life has always been hard and unfair but people are losing their inner toughness. I think the primary reason is a growing since of selfishness and lack of love, care, resect for others and a sense of community.

In the 30s and 40s we had the greatest generation, now it's the all about me generation.

[Guest John_Cillis]

42 minutes ago, PATCO LCH said:

Seems people these days just can't take life's turbulence without going totally bonkers. No anchor or inner stability.life has always been hard and unfair but people are losing their inner toughness. I think the primary reason is a growing since of selfishness and lack of love, care, resect for others and a sense of community.

In the 30s and 40s we had the greatest generation, now it's the all about me generation.

I agree, the selfishness seemed to hit full swing when the seventies ended and the baby boomers became parents to children surrounded by video games, very violent ones, listening to death metal, gansta rap and so on.  They introverted into their own little me me me worlds and the scary part is many of them are in college today to become our next generation of the workforce with that mindset.  My wife and I raised our daughter as best we could and we were open with her about the world ahead and we forced her into social activities.  She was reticent at first but then she blossomed.  We did not give her a big spiritual push, my wife and I were both raised Christian but we wanted to let my daughter see the world in her own way and come to spirituality on her own, if she needed it.  We have a generation of kids raised on Harry Potter who think a spell is all they need to get ahead, some dig way too deep into it.  I implore people to get out, to get outdoors, to interact with the environment and real people and not sit behind a computer or cell phone all the time.  I look forward to coming home to Xplane and P3D and use them for a few hours a week combined, but I really relish getting out of my home and doing things like shopping, or just driving to a park and flying a kite to amuse all the little kids and their parents.  When life hits you, you need to hit back and take a time out, outside or outside of your shell if you have built one up around you.  That is 30 years of being a business system's instructors advice, for what it is worth.

John

[fppilot]

My wife has more Pandora charms for her Pandora bracelet than I have add on airports for FSX! LOL!

[Patco Lch]

Well stated John. VR is no substitute for reality. I can't get over the venom sometimes shown on this hobby forum because someone has a different preference or opinion then another all about something that is supposed to be an enjoyable and edifiying pass time. Kind of like "agree with me or I hate you". That's just no way to live a happy healthy life.

 

 

[harrry]

The photos I saw showed a beautiful house which had obviously had been worked on with a well developed garden and outside area. A lifetime's work.  I can only imagine the feeling he had when he was apparently told to get out as it was not his any more.  

The solution he took was a bad one, I have no sympathy for the threat this posed to his wife and children but do have some regarding the house,

[WingZ]

9 hours ago, Ron Attwood said:

Mind you, he doesn't look like he'd need much pushin'

I'll say...

The plane is parked in the driveway!
How'd he manage that??
It looks as if it were dropped there vertically, wings and tail in position.

[Guest John_Cillis]

8 hours ago, WingZ said:

I'll say...

The plane is parked in the driveway!
How'd he manage that??
It looks as if it were dropped there vertically, wings and tail in position.

Saw his pic, looks like a mugshot from some previous incident.  Can picture him now on a commercial flight "This is your captain speaking, sit DOWN and SHUT UP or I'm gonna hurt you".  Charles Manson looked like a saint compared to him, OK maybe that is a stretch.....

John