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don had owned several planes and he loved to fly tell me a little bit about this airplane
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so it's a piper arrow 3. joe solon has flown hundreds of hours in one type of plane that don lewis liked to fly
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you can roughly get about 700 miles to a full tank the two two main tanks full so if say you were going to go from the
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tampa area down to costa rica it's not a nonstop flight no no so that's like how many refueling
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stops oh probably three to four at least if he did refuel no one seems to know about it
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besides don's family says he would never just take off and leave them [Music] but if don didn't just fly off to begin
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a new life somewhere what was his van doing at the airport i've heard at the time that he was strangled from
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the backseat of an airplane with an electric cord pushed out 50 feet over the gulf
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arrow zero nine michael the part two nine left turn out to the south i'm also a pilot
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i fly the same type of plane don often flew first of all imagine the struggle involved in strangling a 170 pound man
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in this passenger seat then if the plan was to push him out the door that's a challenge
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the slowest this airplane can fly is about 65 miles per hour and that means winds approaching
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hurricane strength would be pushing against this door trying to keep it closed you'd have to open it you'd have to keep
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it open and you'd have to somehow wrestle the body out of here without interfering with the flight
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controls bottom line i guess he could do it but they're easier ways to get rid of a body