All on board are fine, but this report claims the plane was undamaged. Uhhhhh, its in the water. Not exactly looking tip top.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/nyregion/04airplane.html
Here's a video of me racing a storm in at Albany in a Twinkie. I was headed in from Great Barrington where I saw the cell on the radar and decided to go for it because I knew that if the cell beat me there I had enough fuel for an about face and there were many options for alternate fields...
I find that there's a decent buffer between what you're capable of and what you're comfortable with. What might help as an intellectual exercise is to plan a long cross country and decide if you would go or not. Do this every couple of days or so. If the answer is no then ask yourself why...
My friend sold me a 95 Mitsubishi Diamante for $200 which needed some work but he and I got it going again. It has 145K on it and the engine now runs great. The problem is the people before me obviously neglected it and only half of the other things work on it. That's fine with me because I...