Family Loses Plane at Gun Point

Posted on April 15, 2008
Filed Under Travel & Destinations |

Okay so this reinforces a fear I have of ‘flying’…to Mexico that is! I mean I have my pilot’s license so I can have the freedom to fly my plane when and where I want, not be tied to the airlines noose and for pure enjoyment right?! Well flying is about travel and travel generally is about vacation and family. Truth is I would love to fly around the world and several other ‘not so easy to do in a single engine prop plane’ places as shown on to do before I die list.

However I don’t rank Mexico up there as lofty goal. I have contemplated flying my family to Mexico; I live in Texas, it is not that far, why not control my schedule there too? I mean we have all heard the stories of crooked Mexican police, people losing their cars, people put in jail or threaten jail if they didn’t pay up to the local law, but one would think our sacred ground could still be an airport.

Apparently not! I would strongly reconsider doing much of anything in mexico outside of the tourist area or the norm in Mexico as you have no control and certainly not flying there for that very reason. After reading the following a story in the Associated Press today it just proves that…go to Mexico and you may lose your plane…at gun point no less. I am sorry it happened to that family, it could have been mine!