Thursday, July 10, 2008

Christian missionary on drugs crashes plane

I keep explaining that everyone is flawed, and it doesn't get much worse than this. This guy, totally stoned, took a friend's child up for a ride and crashed, killing them both. Further, he'd been evoked before AND only had 90 hours of flying in a period of four years. Idiot irresponsible assholes are idiot irresponsible assholes, no matter how "Christian" or whatever they are.

Thank God he wasn't a priest. At least priest pilots is one problem the Catholic church does not have. We'd never hear the end of it otherwise, though I read a fair number of plane crashes piloted by other denomination or non denomination Christians.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2280673/Christian-missionary-high-on-ecstasy-crashed-plane-killing-13-year-old.html

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A Christian missionary was high on ecstasy when he crashed a light aircraft, killing himself and a 13-year-old boy.

Robbie Gunter, 34, stalled the two-seater Cessna 150 just seconds after taking off and plummeted 200ft to the ground with his teenage passenger Jamie Clapp, a family friend.
Mr Gunter's pilot's license had previously been revoked and had only been given back to him four days before the crash last July.

An official investigation by the Air Accident Investigation Branch concluded Mr Gunter had taken the Class A drug ecstasy hours before the fatal flight