An Excuse To Sell T-Shirts
It would never occur to us to set references from a report prepared the National Transportation Safety Board to the Beverly Hillbillies, but then again we’ve never been accused of being excessively original around here.
We do, however, want desperately to sell some more of our “Andre Bauer Is My Co-Pilot” T-shirts …
Anyway, from a longtime reader/ commenter … enjoy …
“The Ballad of Andre ‘Crash & Burn’ Bauer”
(Sung to the tune of The “Beverly Hillbillies” theme song.)
Come and listen to a story about a boy named Bauer
Landed his plane in a field without a tower,
Didn’t bother to read the book and off he took
And landed in the wires and he caught on fire.
Crashed that is. Runway too short. Pilot error.
Then he told a judge the carburetor was to blame
Th’ investigator said, “Bauer, that’s real lame!
“Takin’ off or not’s your responsibility
“You’re completely at fault in the N.T.S.B.”
Report, that is. Didn’t abort the take-off in time.
It’s “Crash and Burn” Bauer!
Well now its time to say goodbye to Bauer’s ambi-tion
Though he would like to think you folks can all be fooled again.
You’re all invited t’cast your vote in next year’s primar-y
To give Bauer a heapin’ helpin’ of stark reality.
Obscurity that is. Not even a footnote in the history books.
Y’all don’t fly with Bauer now, y’hear?
Damn … pretty good …
WEB EXTRAS
NTSB Report
NTSB Accident Brief
Hat-tip: WTC
Comments
By Liberty For Me on November 16th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Now that one is good….Too bad it could be used for almost all the candidates for governor after one term
By Ynot on November 16th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
right, that is……
good job
flying HA
By 2 cents on November 16th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Maybe he shouldn’t drive OR fly.
By Calhoun Fawls on November 17th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Offer a “Nikki Haley is my co-drinker in the Vista” and I will buy one.
By WorkingTommyC on November 17th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Ha! I didn’t know about the t-shirts! Excellent!
I’m flattered that you’ve featured my musical parody of Bauer’s severe “judgement deficit disorder!”
It occurred to me a while back that even though bad things can happen to good people, this boy is a freakin’ lighting rod!
Much more is wrong with his personality than a momentary lapse of common sense as some may attempt to rationalize it. In the events leading up to the crash, Bauer had a cascade failure of judgement when he ignored one safety protocol after another involving “things you do not do and live” as a pilot. It was more than I could fit into the song, hence the links to the reports included with the email.
I also had the input of two pilots who have studied the reports. Bauer is the prominent bad example used by the flying community here in South Carolina. His incident is used to illustrate the worst possible choices a pilot can make and to show how carelessness and piloting an airplane do not mix.
His gall at then suing the carburetor manufacturer as a cover for his bad piloting skills fools no one who realizes what is required of a pilot. No matter what the condition, problems, malfunctions, lack of performance capability, etc. of an airplane, the pilot is responsible for making the “go/no-go” decision every step of the way and is always expected to abort in time if he doesn’t have enough airspeed to achieve flight–duh!
If he was too far along the too short runway to abort and without enough airspeed, he utterly failed his basic responsibility for safe piloting. The idea that his passenger, another pilot, attempted in a recent letter to the editor to excuse his recklessness–claiming that Bauer “saved” their lives–is beyond absurd.