TEN ROMEO NEWSLETTER
Report 64
February 18, 1998
Dear Friends:
IT'S OVER! TEN ROMEO is returned at a cost of $34,000.00.
A concerned journalist, Peter Hanson, wrote the enclosed article for THE SPOTLIGHT. Two corrections should be noted: Customs drug interdiction aircraft, not Air Force jets, followed TEN ROMEO to Albany. Medicines were delivered not to IACC in Havana but to Caritas Cubana as Commerce requires.
The US government refuses to acknowledge my airborne emergency. Addressing Assistant US Attorney William Pericak's statements follows:
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The safety of fellow ABS and AOPA pilots should Cuban avgas be 72 octane was the primary mission of the Havana flight.
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A Washington-Havana flight record is valid with overflight (no landing required) and the NAA $350.00 sanction for the record attempt is not refundable.
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Direct flight to Grand Cayman requires Cuban overflight approval; my Cuban permit NR 1053 was valid.
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Pericak's comment on "landing in a foreign capital, communist or otherwise" does not tell how to handle an airborne emergency.
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The government seems not to have investigated my airborne emergency.
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Medicines to Caritas Cubana in Havana was better than the planned delivery from Grand Cayman by Cubana Air.
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Two US aircraft were shot down on their 25th violation of Cuban airspace in 19 months (with no Cuban overflight permits) for dropping pamphlets inciting riots.
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An hour's video account of repairs in Havana is available.
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A speed record was of minor concern and not mentioned in the four TEMPORARY SOJOURN LICENSE requests made to Commerce.
A BOOK IS COMING!!!!!!!!
