You are probably right Tim. That **** hurt like hell.

PRO TIp-Never drop 40 pounds of tool box directly on your toe in the airport. I’m sure the Mexicans in Tapachula thought I was having a stroke.

 

Ouch!
Yeah, yeah.
Hahaha!

 

FYI, put the toolbox down before taking out the phone for a Louie.
As you know, the latter will hurt.

 

What happened was I grabbed my Pelican case tool box off the conveyor belt by the extendable handle and it did exactly what it was supposed to do….extend, right onto my toe. Made my eyes water.

Larry, looks like I’m gonna hold at 6.

 

Best to keep the toes out of the way.

 

I think it was late '80s, Northwest airlines bought a DC9 from one of the Eastern European countries, had almost no paperwork. They ended up stripping it down to the bare fuselage, had to put it back together with all ADs etc, most of the components had to go into the shops for teardown for compliance checks or zero time overhaul for items with hour limits, lot of new wiring, engines and landing gear pulled for overhaul. Would have been an expensive used DC9 if they'd gotten it free. Wasn't the only time the purchasing bean counters completely screwed up on checking history and paperwork on something they considered a bargain, but probably was the worst example.

 

Evening, Mike.

 

Evening, Greg.

Last check completed, computer shut down initiated. Later, y'all.

 

See ya, Mike.

 

Evening and good night Mike! Imagine if your aircraft were narco seizures and there was no historical paperwork to begin with! They’ve got a few new seizures on the ramp since my last trip down here, a very nice Hawker XP and a Cessna 210 both look flyable just to name a couple. Unfortunately, the government doesn’t seem too concerned with selling them and seems content to let them rot in place. What a waste of potential income.