Part 51, page 58

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out of here, you know, let's get this over with, I want to get back home anyway, I said it feels fine to me and uh, so he turned to the women in the back and uh, he said do you guys feel any vibration and they said yes, it's vibrating bad back here and then he said oh, oh, oh you guys just want to go back and gamble some more, I said well let's go he said no, I got to go back and have this checked, so he turned the plane around, took it back to the wherever he took there and they run it in and had them work on it and look at it and in the meantime we went inside and I think we was gambling, I don't remember, we did something in there and come to find out it was a stuck valve and so that held us up for another couple hours and they got the stuck valve fixed and then we took off, cause I remember taking off out of Reno, going over that mountain there was big hill there or something, and we was, to me we wasn't fifty feet from over the top of that sucker, but from there seemed like we went to Redding or somewheres down around Redding and came back up, because I remember going over, well that's, anyway we stopped in Yreka, Yreka, California, we stopped there, got a cab, went to Yreka, that's where we all knew each other, see and he kind of wanted to see if there was anybody there he knew and we kind of did too, see cause we hadn't been back there in ten years, we ate and did this and that and then we went and got back in the plane and is why I know that uh, well everytime we would gas up, you know, we had to, he always stressed the point that it was hot, the hot, you know the heat was so hot, and full of gas with four people in that little bitty plane and I think it was a sesna one twenty-five, I'm not sure, it was a small plane, just two, the people, you know pretty close in the backseat when they sat back there and when we took out of Yreka, I didn't think we was gonna make it there, because you come right to the end of runway, it was a short runway and he knew that and he knew the runway and he said you know, it looked like we might go off, you know, plop off the end, but we got, you know he had everything full power and all this gas and oh god, I was, anyway we made it and then we was flying over wherever we was flying over the rocks, what'd you say that place was where the big rocks?

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Castle Craig.

Castle Craig just out of Redding, cause I remember that we was right on top of them and how pretty it was and I thought man if we hit in there you know what would happen you know, and then later we flew a little further and it was all forest I remember, all trees, everywhere you could see was just trees, and I said man, I said what would you do if that engine quit right now, what would we do, we'd go down wouldn't we, yes, he said yeah, and he said here, he said he looked out and he said see those two big trees over there, he said uh, we'd fly right into those two big trees, shear off the wings and then we would go down, that would slow us

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