The Multiple-Ironies of this AvWeb newstory ...."slays" me. How many ironies can you spot?
"Friday, a Piper Super Cub banner tow aircraft reportedly dispatched to buzz a New York City Flight 1549 anniversary celebration while trailing a sign that read "If you died today, would you go to heaven or hell? John 14:6" made a forced landing at Fresh Kills landfill, which holds 9/11 wreckage. The owner of Smoketown Banners, LLC, of New Holland, Pa., which operated the aircraft, told CBS news that an anonymous client paid for the ad meant to be seen by survivors of the "Miracle on the Hudson." The owner said the Piper blew a cylinder, its pilot notified controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport, dropped the banner in a stand of trees and made a safe landing on a road after circling back to the now-closed landfill."
Multiple Ironies
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GAHorn
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Multiple Ironies
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
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jrenwick
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Re: Multiple Ironies
If "Fresh Kills" had still been open, maybe the Cub pilot wouldn't have been so lucky! 
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GAHorn
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Re: Multiple Ironies
Did anyone pick up on this?:
"If you died today, would you go to heaven or hell? John 14:6"
The word "hell" supposedly springs from "sheol" which was the term for an ever-burning garbage-dump outside the city walls.
The pilot did not die, but went to hell anyway.
"If you died today, would you go to heaven or hell? John 14:6"
The word "hell" supposedly springs from "sheol" which was the term for an ever-burning garbage-dump outside the city walls.
The pilot did not die, but went to hell anyway.
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
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