[Ron Earp]

Hey Jim,

I'm sorry to hear about your dad at Triple W. I've flown in there a bunch of times, for the first time when I was training in about 2003/2004 for a "short narrow strip" training. It is fairly narrow, has tall trees at either end, and is not in that great a shape. I take it your dad was okay? I sure hope so.

I do member a plane going down around that area but there were no details on the news and I don't recall a NTSB report in the pilot mags, but they only cover probably 10% of what is out there. Small world for sure. Triple W is probably 35 miles from me as the crow files, maybe a 50 min drive tops. Was your dad on business or pleasure?

I did fly in there one time and had one flap deploy and the other not deploy at all. I caught it on downwind though and retracted both, luckily the deployed one came back up. I then did the no flap landing which was no big deal. Spooked me a little though because I was alone and still on a Student Pilot ticket with excursions to local area airports allowed. Worked fine after that.

Thanks for any insight that your mom can provide. I've heard conflicting reports about what can be done with a loss like that - from nothing to completely deductable.

Ron