Thread: Chilean C130 lost on flight to Antarctic.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Or it could be something as simple as an error in altitude resulting in hitting the water. It would not be the first time a flight crew has made a 10,000ft error - I seem to remember a flight from the US west coast to Honolulu many years ago on a dark night descended to 10,000ft and noticed water hitting the windscreen, switched on the landing lights, and found they were skimming the wave tops. I assume that the area where it was lost did not have secondary radar coverage.

John were you flying on the legendary Mrs. Miller's Airline and Barn Door Construction Company? Pilot to passengers "Welcome to Mrs. Miller's Airline. Any of you guys been to Hawaii before? Anyone know what Hawaii looks like?"

No - and I wasn't implying I was on the flight in question, but I read of it, probably in the Air Safety Digest.

But I could make some comments about flights on some interesting airlines and charter operators in the past in the past - QAL in the Simpson, Burma Airways in Myanmar, Divine Word Mission in Wewak, Helicopter Transport and MAL in the PNG Southern Highlands come to mind. And then there was flying myself in PNG.