> ... The liquid is also smelled to confirm gasoline or jet-a
> (keorsene) before moving the aircraft before first flight of day, and
> after fueling.

For most values of is.
As noted in a prior discussion here - I've seen a light aircraft
descend to a watery grave in Tairua harbour (injuries, no deaths) very
shortly after takeoff due to water in the fuel. Presumably they failed
to perform these checks, or to perform them well enough. Or maybe
Murphy was having an especially good day.

We just has a 9 death crash of a Fletcher craft usually used for
skydiving -  5 staff members and 4 others. Crashed just on airport
boundary - some major failure just after takeoff and as yet no public
report on probable reason. (Here as elsewhere that takes 1 to many
years to get out of the very very carefully investigated closed shop
of air crash investigations).

The crash occurred on the afternoon of the day of our Richter 7.x
earthquake and in the same region - rather took the edge off the
euphoria at the almost unbelievable* lack of deaths in the quake. Some
extremely sobering photos of roads, buildings and more looking very
like post quake Haiti photos. These are of course the very worst and
overall we fared far far far better than Haiti, even though the
magnitudes were similar.



 Russell

   * overwhelming assessment.at all levels.
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