Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Paul

 

>    "Spiraled in" doesn't sound like just an engine failure.

Agreed. It doesn't sound like Paul either.

 

I would think it most likely that “spiraled in” is simple the reporter taking license with the language.  We know, for example, that is was/is common vernacular among the military fliers to refer to any crash as “augured in”.

 

We know that he had turned to return to land. He may have been turning again in an attempt to make the farmers field, who knows.  Speculation beyond that at this point is futile, and could be misleading.  We know only that it is sad – very sad.  I never met Paul, but just from these pages, I knew I liked him.

 

Al